Teletruth & New Networks Institute Files Largest “Omnibus” Data Quality Act Complaints Against All FCC Proceedings Since 2000. Requests FCC Suspend All Current Proceedings Until the Data Is Fixed, July, 2010. — All Requests denied in 2011.
FCC to kill thousands of ISPs with 8 year-old data! Garbage-in, kill-competitors-out. The FCC, on august 5th 2005, put out a press release “FCC eliminates mandated sharing requirement on incumbents’ wireline broadband internet access services”. (Link to release below). What this means is that the local bell phone companies no longer have to resell certain parts of their networks to internet service providers (ISP) — it is the “re-regulation” of the internet.How many ISPs will be put out of business? How does this help innovation in the US when you kill off thousands of innovative companies? August 17, 2005
38 million “broadband users” in the US? America leads the globe in “broadband connections”?
Teletruth and the National Internet Alliance (NIA) filed three data quality act challenges and a regulatory flexibility act challenge at the FCC as part of our triennial review comments.
New series on America’s wrong path in telecommunications, internet, broadband and wireless services.Harvard’s Nieman School of Journalism Watchdog project is publishing a series of articles about America’s broadband, internet and telecom future written by TeleTruth’s Bruce Kushnick. “The Nieman watchdog journalism project grows from this premise and this goal: to help the press ask penetrating questions, critical questions, questions that matter, questions not yet asked about today’s news.” August 1, 2006
Dear senate: investigate this: America is 16th in broadband and basing our nation’s future on inferior products that may never show up will be bad for our economic growth and technological edge. More importantly – we already paid over $200 billion in excess fees? What happened to the money and our promised fiber optic future?
Get ready to be nickeled, dimed and quartered again! New proposed taxes, surcharges on phone bills and broadband. August 17, 2004, If the FCC’s intercarrier compensation forum, (icf) has its way, every residential and business local phone bill will show an increase of the FCC subscriber line charge (“SLC” and other names) from a current cap of $6.50 to over $10.00 a month, not counting hefty taxes. To make matters worse, this industry group also wants to raise customers’ universal service charges on everything from local service to even cable and DSL services — new broadband taxes.
Universal broadband service from Verizon— Waiting for Godot is more useful. Verizon’s recent announcement to deploy fiber-optic services is just another ploy to remove regulations and make more money. It’s a shame Verizon never delivered on their original promises since 1992 to rewire most of their territories with fiber-to-the home by now. August, 2004
At a new jersey utilities board hearing on cable franchises, three guys from Verizon – the elephant in the room – go unnoticed by the regulators, and by the press.
Harvard Nieman article: Verizon, AT&T and the manipulation of public opinion. Needed: blacks, Hispanics, disabled, deaf, low-income and the elderly to support the telecoms’ positions on anti-consumer FCC rulings and legislation. April 04, 2007
Fake phone company consumer group: increase universal service fund (USF), tax VoIP, influence FCCMain page, read alert!
Letter to FCC chairman, April 25, 2005 Teletruth, with New Networks Institute, exposes the bell phone company skunkworks, sock puppets and astroturf groups that have harmed the public interest — (phone companies: sac, Verizon, Bellsouth)
Who controls the FCC? Teletruth files request for a congressional investigation of the control of the FCC consumer advisory committee by telecommunications business interests.Read more, including the press release and complaint. February 3, 2005
Verizon New Jersey settles class action alleging overbilling for special circuits. Teletruth sets up customer hotline: are you owed money from Verizon, no? circuits info page: press release, faq, fact sheet, other links Note: this is the 2nd Verizon, no class action suit settlement teletruth has worked on., October 2006
Complaint: Wireless Spectrum Fraud by AT&T, Cingular (SBC & BellSouth), Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint? Are these “Very Small Businesses”?
Time for A Wireless Divestiture?The AT&T-T-Mobile Proposed Merger Is Only a Symptom of the Problems,June 16th, 2011.Teletruth and New Networks Institute are calling for Congress to start investigations into a wireless divestiture, separating AT&T and Verizon wireless from their incumbent wires that they currently control. We also filed with the FCC a Petition to Deny the AT&T-T-Mobile merger,
FCC line charge should be removed from all phone bills, teletruth charges. Teletruth files first complaint under the data quality act at FCC — the FCC line charge increases had inadequate cost support — quintuple taxed as well. Teletruth files second petition with the FCC over “truth-in-billing”— FCC line charge doesn’t go to fund the FCC.
Phone Bill Independence, August 28, 2004
Taken directly from New York and New Jersey phone bills, from missing discounts, hidden revenues to the phone companies quintuple taxation or truth-in-billing violations, not to mention raising rates, it is clear that phone bill charges are out of control.
The Dirty, Little, Secret Lives of Phone Bills. April, 21, 2004. Valerie Simpson, an investigative reporter, is assigned the task of answering: “why are there all these little charges on the phone bill?” dirty little secrets covers how to read your local phone bill, how to file a complaint, and the good and bad about bundled packages. It also examines the regulations surrounding phone bills, the skunk-works and astroturfgroups that control the telecom and broadband agenda, and numerous uninvestigated scandals that have cost customers hundreds of dollars in excess phone charges.