NNew Networks Institute & Teletruth Data,
Merger Analysis and Complaints
o AT&T: (SBC), Southwestern Bell, Pacific Telesis, SNET, Ameritech, AT&T, BellSouth
o Verizon: Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, GTE, MCI, Alltel
FREE
REPORT ABOUT THE PREVIOUS MERGERS:
We created a separate report outlining the SBC-Verizon mergers through
2005
- FREE REPORT on Broadband in America: The History, Financial Commitments and Outcomes of Fiber Optic Broadband Deployment in America: 1990-2004 The Wiring of Homes, Businesses, Schools, Libraries, Hospitals and Government Agencies, 2009
- Filed with the FCC to enhance Columbia University, CITI Report, 2009---Report outlines the Majority of the US Fiber optic and broadband committments by state and phone company, as well as the impacts of the mergers.
- FREE REPORT on Telecom Charges. Phone, Broadband, Wireless, Internet & Cable Charges in San Diego, California.
- With the removal of AT&T as a competitor, the prices of service increased and there was a clear harm to customers in terms of choice of service, Also, it is clear that this impacted previous AT&T customers adversely, especially low volume or low income families. -- Based on survey of actual phone bills in San Diego CA working with UCAN, on a grant from the CA Consumer Protection Fund, done originally in 2004 then repeated in 2008.
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FREE REPORT on AT&T & Verizon. 25
Year Analysis of Key Financial Indictors for the Bell Companies-AT&T,
Verizon and Qwest
New Networks Institute Report: (63 pages), 2009 -- A complete picture of the reign of the Bell companies for 25 years since the break up in 1984. Covers: Market consolidation, revenues, profits, executive compensation, foreign investment and losses, wireline and wireless competition, Internet competition, broadband deployment, construction expenditures, depreciation, employees, cost of local, long distance, wireless service, 'access line' manipulation, 'very small business' wireless spectrum issues, and 'vaporware' and corporate influence over policy.
- CONFERENCE: Has Divestiture Worked? A 25th Anniversary Assessment of the Break Up of AT&T. Featuring speakers Fred Goldstein, Mark Cooper, Bruce Kushnick, Carl Mayer and others discussing the whether the break up of AT&T worked and whether there should be other options as we go forward.
- REPORT and Complaint with the FCC Customer pricing and choice AT&T and MCI-Verizon Harvesting Customers: Harm 1/3 of US Households: FCC Data Flaws Harms The Public Interest.
- This report, using only actual phone bills, demonstrates the direct harms of eliminating the 2 largest competitors, AT&T and MCI -- AT&T and MCI started on a path post merger to gouge customers by continuously raising rates. At the time AT&T and MCI represented about 1/3 of all US households with over 25 million long distance customers.
- Teletruth Files Two Comments about AT&T-BellSouth Merger:
- Competition: FCC Can't Create Enforceable Merger Conditions.FCC/Bells Harmed Competition --- 43% Drop in Wholesale Lines. The Mergers Eliminated Competitors.
- Teletruth Sends Letter to Judge Sullivan Regarding the Bell-AT&T-MCI Merger Review.
- The Bell Mergers Harmed Broadband Deployment, Competition and the Economy.
- The AT&T and MCI Deals Added New Harms to the Public Interest - New Neutrality Concerns
- Wireless Spectrum Fraud by AT&T, Verizon, Cingular -- Are they Very Small Businesses?
- Very Large Phone Companies have been able to create 'fake fronts' to bid on wireless spectrum as Very Small Businesses? Is this fraud?
- FTC Complaint for Commercial Speech, Deceptive Practices in Mergers,
- Teletruth files this Complaint with the FTC, claiming that the previous Bell mergers were based on a massive, 10-year pattern of misrepresentation, untruthful and outright fraudulent statements made to customers. How many misleading, deceptive or fraudulent statements does it take to become a case of fraud?
- Break Up SBC, Break Up Verizon
- Teletruth Requests Congress Start Immediate Investigations into the Previous Bell Mergers.
- Do Not Let 2 Companies Control America's Digital Future! --- More Materials.26 States Lost Fiber Optic Broadband After each merger, SBC and Verizon cut fiber optic deployments. It impacted 26 states, over 200 million people.
- The AT&T-SBC, Verizon-MCI Mergers. Death to Competition. Investigate and Break Up SBC, Break Up Verizon.
- Comments: FCC in WC Docket 05-65, May 10th, 2005 TeleTruth Asks Senator Hollings for Hearings to Break Up SBC-Ameritech and Pay $1.2 Billion in Penalties. By April 2002 SBC was supposed to be competing in 30 cities outside their region. The commitments were set because SBC merged with Ameritech, another Bell company. According to the agreement, the FCC can "Divest" SBC of Ameritech and it is required to pay $1.2 billion in penalties. Therefore, TeleTruth (with New Networks Institute) is calling on Congressional hearings. This failure has raised the rates of every local subscriber because competition did not come into the markets to lower prices.
- For more information about the SBC Ameritech Merger
- To read the letter to Senator Hollings
- For a list of the cities SBC was supposed to compete
- To Take Action