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New Networks & Teletruth Activities 1998-2018
Summary
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Archive Bibliography, 1985-2004
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- Omnibus Data Quality Act Complaint Against All Phone, Broadband, Wireless, Cable and Internet Charges Since 2000.
- Omnibus Data Quality Act Complaint: Against All Broadband Data Since 2000.
- Omnibus Data Quality Act Complaint Against All Data Since 2000 Used in the Regulatory Flexibility Act Analyses in All Current Dockets in 2010.
- Harvard Nieman: 12 year old data is being used in the current FCC net neutrality proceeding — bad data created bad policies, November 19th, 2009
- Should the FCC be allowed to use data from 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, or 2002 for a current market small business impact study in 2008? October 6th, 2008
- Teletruth files Data Quality Act Complaint: FCC’s DTV numbers are to fool America. September 24, 2008
- New study and real-world testing of over-the-air television (OTA) viewers September 24, 2008
- FCC ruling strip-mines the requirements of data collection on AT&T, Verizon and Qwest. September 10, 2008
- Redacted: your rights. FCC data and order on local and long distance market harms VoIP, competition, and customers. August, 2007
- AT&T and Verizon customers hit with major phone price increases in New York, New Jersey, July 25, 2007
- FCC to kill thousands of ISPs with 8 year-old data! August 17, 2005
- Teletruth files against FCC’s data — tell the truth about broadband! July 26th, 2005
- The AT&T-SBC, Verizon-MCI mergers. May 10, 2005
- Bad FCC data results in bad laws October 21, 2004
Articles
- Huffington Post 2012-2018
- Harvard Nieman Foundation for Journalism Watchdog, 2006-2012
- Alternet 2010-
- How Politicians Are Using 911 Emergency Services to Scam Millions of Consumers, March 18, 2011
- $320 Billion Broadband Rip-Off: How the Phone Companies Are Screwing America October 11th, 2010
- The Universal Slush Fund, September 20th, 2010
- Google and Verizon: Be afraid. Be very afraid. August 17th, 2010
- Comcast-GE-NBC Merger?, August 2010
- FCC: Multiple rate and tax increases, in the name of broadband
- The new FCC chairman is making all the right promises. Can he fulfill them?, July 8, 2009
- “AT&T backs 100 percent broadband by 2014” — liar, liar, pants on fire., June 15, 2009
- Stimulate this: promising beginning—or new boondoggle for AT&T, Verizon? February 3, 2009
- AT&T and Verizon are manipulating access line losses. January 8, 2009
- Proposals for broadband infrastructure bailout of $44 billion January 2009
- Is New York city and Verizon trying to slip one by you? May 20, 2008
- The FiOS ads say, ‘this is big!’ well, maybe it is, and maybe it isn’t, May 9, 2008
- Digital TV time bomb, May 14, 2008
- Open infrastructure alliance (OIA) experts propose “the broadband opportunity plan for New York state” February 21, 2008
- Teletruth to Massachusetts broadband: where are the 330,000 lines of the $5 billion?, June 7, 2007
- Apple’s iPhone is telecom bling, July, 2007
- Massachusetts was duped by Verizon about previous fiber optic deployments April 26, 2007
- Stop FCC-Missoula: stop the FCC line charge increase to $10.00 January 30, 2007
- For low-volume users, phone costs have risen sharply
- Bogus new surcharge on Verizon DSL bills harms customers twice. August 22, 2006
- New series on America’s wrong path in telecommunications August 1, 2006
- Senate to raise your USF phone taxes 200%? June 22, 2006
- Verizon’s FiOS, AT&T’s LightSpeed – the rise of the crippled networks., June 13, 2006
- Wireless spectrum fraud by AT&T, Verizon, and Cingular
- The death of VoIP?
- Universal broadband service from Verizon— Waiting for Godot is more useful. August, 2004
Speaking Engagements And Events
- Reverse ALEC Legal Hackathon, Brooklyn Law School, BLIP, January 31st, 2013
- Community Broadband Networks, January 8th, 2012
- Gigabit Nation: An AT&T $14 billion dollar Bait & Switch? December 13th, 2012
- Kushnick speaks at broadband breakfast club, Sept. 15, 2009
- GFOA meeting on Verizon property taxes, August 2009
- Has divestiture worked? A 25th anniversary assessment of the break up of AT&T. May 5, 2009
- Testifying in New Jersey: Are 80% increases to local service by Verizon fair and reasonable?, June 24, 2008
- Teletruth to New York City broadband committee in Brooklyn: get $5-$12 billion back., May 27, 2007
- Teletruth testifies in front of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. December 2005
- Moyers on America presents “The Net at Risk”. PBS
Astroturf, Skunkworks and Sock Puppets
- Congressmen, senators and minority groups getting paid by AT&T, Verizon to block net neutrality?, October 19, 2009
- Another stink tank production: new millennium research council (NMRC) releases cellphone report., April 2, 2008
- Telco-astroturf group critiques “stink tanks”: we respond, Oct 15, 2007
- The age of the stink tanks: corporate-funded research designed to influence public policy, October 01, 2007
- Press gives a free pass to citizens groups allied with telecoms May 07, 2007
- Verizon, AT&T and the manipulation of public opinion. April 04, 2007
- More about the groups in the release: April 04, 2007
- Bell skunkworks 101 — know your astroturf April 04, 2007
Mergers
- Time for A Wireless Divestiture? June 16th, 2011
- Letter to Congress Calling for a Wireless Divestiture, Part 1. June 16th, 2011
- FCC Petition to Deny the AT&T-T-Mobile Merger, June 16th, 2011
- FCC can’t create enforceable merger conditions. October 24, 2006
- Put Up or Break Up: 19 Million Homes by 2008, October 24, 2006
- Teletruth requests congress start immediate investigations into the previous bell mergers.
- Do not let 2 companies control America’s digital future!
- Teletruth sends letter to judge Sullivan regarding the bell-AT&T-MCI merger review. July 19, 2006
- Splat: the FCC kills the telecom act.
- FCC line charge should be removed from all phone bills, June 1, 2004
Books, Reports, and Papers
- “Survival Guide & Workbook for Residential & Small Business Wireline & Wireless Telecommunications”
- Two free ebooks: national broadband plan — get the $300 billion dollars back, June 8, 2009
- 25 year analysis of key financial indicators for the bell companies May 13, 2009
- Deregulation and consolidation have harmed telephone and broadband customers.
- Broadband opportunity – job creation, healthcare, education
- Killing off 7000 independent ISPs by the FCC created net neutrality problems, November 29, 2007
- 56% drop in wireline competition since 2004. November 15, 2007
- AT&T and MCI-Verizon harvesting customers February 26, 2007
- Phone Bill Independence, August 28, 2004
- The Dirty, Little, Secret Lives of Phone Bills. April 21, 2004