THEY CREATED THE DIGITAL DIVIDE BY DESIGN
16 REPORTS & MULTIPLE FILINGS DOCUMENTING THE FINDINGS.
- Did Verizon, AT&T, CenturyLink and the FCC deliberately and intentionally make the entire US state-based, telecommunications, wired utility networks appear unprofitable?
- Did they overcharge America $½ trillion or more?
- Did they create the Digital Divide and has been used to restructure the America’s communications policies to help these companies against the public interest?
NOTE: We have documented this “Digital Divide by Design” in 16 new research reports (to be released over the next month) and our recent FCC filings.
- REPORT 1: Did AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink & the FCC Intentionally Make the Wired Utility Networks Look Unprofitable—Overcharging America at Least $½ Trillion? Did They Create the Digital Divide?
- FILED WITH FCC SEPTEMBER 1, 2018
- REPORT 2: Verizon New York 2017 Annual Report: An Analysis of Cross-Subsidies and Customer Overcharging
- FILED WITH FCC SEPTEMBER 1, 2018, Docket 18-141, Docket 80-286
- REPORT 3: FILED: Bell Access Line Accounting Manipulation 1984-2018
- FILED WITH FCC SEPTEMBER 1, 2018, Docket 18-141,
- REPORT 4: AT&T, CenturyLink & Verizon’s Motto: The Big Telco Cook Book for Fun and Profit of the Shareholders
- REPORT 5. CEO to Investor Transcripts: The AT&T-Verizon-FCC Wireline Bait-and-Switch with Wireless: Because it Makes the Companies More Money.
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- THE BIG FREEZE PROCEEDING:
- FILING: Comments filed in “The Big Freeze“– Docket 80-286,
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FURTHER NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING, FCC 18-99
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DESCRIPTION: AT&T et al., with the help of the FCC, created the Digital Divide by “freezing” a federal accounting formula to match the year 2000– 18 years ago. The FCC wants to extend this “FREEZE’ until 2033– 15 more years.
- FILED WITH COMMENTS: REPORT 1: Did AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink & the FCC Intentionally Create the Digital Divide?
- FILED AS REPLY COMMENTS: REPORT 2: Verizon New York 2017 Annual Report: An Analysis of Cross-Subsidies and Customer Overcharging
- THE USTELECOM PETITION FOR FORBEARANCE
- REPORT 3: FILED AS COMMENTS: Bell Access Line Accounting Manipulation 1984-2018
- Description: Verizon, AT&T, CenturyLink, and their association, USTelecom, with the help of the FCC, have manipulated the basic accounting of access lines, and have removed or hidden 80% of all lines, including all Business Data Services, (special access) DSL, competitor lines, FiOS, U-Verse, all of the wires to the cell sites or wifi-hot spots, alarm circuits, and this has been done to reinforce a claim that the utility networks are unprofitable.
- REPORT 2: Verizon New York 2017 Annual Report: An Analysis of Cross-Subsidies and Customer Overcharging
- FILED WITH FCC SEPTEMBER 1, 2018, Docket 18-141, Docket 80-286
- DESCRIPTION: Proves that the companies are regulated, that there is a utility and that it is hemorrhaging money because of the FCC
TO BE RELEASED SEPTEMBER, 2018
- REPORT 6: The Book of Numbers
- REPORT 7: The Book of Violations
- REPORT 8: Wireline state utilities have been overcharged billions to fund the wireless network build outs.
- REPORT 9: AT&T California state utility phone service went up 138% from 2008-2016. Ancillary services went up 60%-525%.
- REPORT 10: Verizon New Jersey Local Service Increases, 1982-2014 — 440%
- REPORT 11: Verizon New York Basic Phone Service Went Up Over 730% Since 1980. Since 2005, customers were Overcharged over $2,500.00 per line.
- REPORT 12: NJ Ratepayer Advocate’s analysis of Verizon NJ’s failure to deploy fiber optics 1993-1997 and the harms of “Price Caps” and “Incentive” regulations.
- REPORT 13: A Case Study: Verizon NJ Opportunity $15 Billion Failure
- REPORT 14: Case Study: Verizon Massachusetts: A Broadband Failure
- REPORT 15: Case Study: AT&T California’s Fiber Optic Failure
- REPORT 16: The Verizon New York Settlement July, 2018
PREVIOUS REPORTS: FIXING TELECOM SERIES, 2010-2018
New Networks Institute and the IRREGULATORS – FCC and State Filings.
VERIZON NEW YORK: EXAMINING THE FINANCIAL SHELL GAME
- Verizon NY Settlement Story, July 14th, 2018
- NY PSC Proposed Settlement April 16th, 2018.
- NNI & IRREGULATOR FILINGs, 2017
REPORTS AND FILINGS, 2010-
- Verizon’s State-Based Financial Issues & Tax Losses: The Destruction of America’s Telecommunications Utilities In 2010, NNI started an investigation of the financial books of five Verizon’s state-based utilities, Published in 2012
- Verizon Wireless and the Other Verizon Affiliate Companies Are Harming Verizon New York’s (The State-based Utility) Customers & the State. Examining Verizon NY’s Phone Rate Increases, Income Tax Benefits, Lack of Network Upgrades, Service Quality and Pushing Wireless Deployment
- Verizon Wireless and the Other Verizon Affiliate Companies Are Harming Verizon New York’s (The State-based Utility) Customers & the State.
- In September 2013, our next report focused on Verizon New York and was the centerpiece of a filing by Common Cause, Consumer Union, CWA, and the Fire Island Association, which called for an investigation of Verizon’s financials and business practices, Alexander Goldman, Esq. co-authored the report.
- “It’s All Interconnected”, published, May 2014, Public Utility Law Project, (PULP). It relied on unexamined data from Verizon New York using different Verizon supplied financials books.
FIXING TELECOM REPORTS: 2015-
- Report 1: Executive Summary: Verizon’s Manipulated Financial Accounting & the FCC’s Big “Freeze”
- Report 2: Full Data Report
- Report 3: SPECIAL REPORT How Municipalities and the States can Fund Fiber Optic Wireline and Wireless Broadband Networks.
- REPORT 4: Data Report Verizon’s Wireline Networks Diverted Capex for Wireless Instead of Wiring Municipalities, and Charged Local Phone Customers.
- Report 5: The Hartman Memorandum proves that the FCC’s own cost allocation rules created massive financial cross subsidies.
- Report 6: The History & Rules of Setting Phone Rates in America
- Report 7: SUMMARY REPORT: Verizon Massachusetts & Boston: Investigate the Wireless-Wireline Bait-n-Switch, January 17th, 2017
- Report 8: Full Report: Verizon NY 2016 Annual Report Analyzed, June 2017.