Harvard Nieman: Expect big problems in the switch to digital TV

20 Reasons Why the Universal Service Fund is an Out of Control Slush Fund And What we Should Do About it.

HarvardNieman: Dear President-Elect Obama --- Is it time to break up AT&T and Verizon again?

$200 Billion Broadband Scandal

The Dirty, Little Secret Lives of Phone Bills

Phone Bill Independence Report Verizon.

FREE: Unauthorized Bio of the Bavy Bells.

• 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?
• The FCC's Bad Data Harmed Small Competitors
• FCC data Collection: Fobearance Strip-Mines the Data Collection on AT&T, Verizon and Qwest.
• Complaint DATA QUALITY ACT Complaint Against FCC's Phone Data.
• Complaint : FCC 200K Broadband Definition Fails Telecom Act 's Statutes for Video.
• Complaint2: FCC 1995 Video Competition Report Showed Millions of Lines - What Happened?
• Your Rights. FCC Data and Order on Local and Long Distance Market Harms VOIP, Competition, and Customers.
• Teletruth files Summary of Our Filings
• Comments: FCC Proposed Cable Franchise Plan & Chairman Martin's Speech. Word Doc., filed 12/13/06, 23pages
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• More about the astroturf groups:
• The Age of the "Stink Tanks" October 1,, 2007 Corporate-funded research designed to influence public policy,
• Press gives a free pass to citizens groups allied with telecoms, May 07, 2007
  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.
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• Part Two: Killing Off 7000 Independent Internet Service (ISPs) Providers by the FCC Created Net Neutrality Problems
• Part One: 56% drop in wireline competition since 2000
• How the FCC Killed Competition in the US.

• Teletruth Files Data Quality Act Complaint: FCC's DTV Numbers are to Fool America. FCC
• Ne w Study and Real-World Testing of Over-the-Air Television (OTA) viewers:

• Learn About Phone Bill Audits. Small Biz owners: We can help you get money back that you may be owed by the phone company!
• Phone Bill Outrage!
  AT&T and MCI-Verizon Harvesting Customers: Harm 1/3 of US Households: FCC Data Flaws Harms The Public Interest.
• Phone Bill Issues 426% increase in NYC.
• Universal Service Slush Fund -- 14 Reasons to Investigate
• FCC Line Charge? (Doesn't go to the FCC) going to $10.00?
• STOP FCC-MISSOULA: STOP THE FCC LINE CHARGE INCREASE TO $10.00, PHONE RATE HIKES
• Long Distance Fees. For low-volume users, phone costs have risen sharply Despite phone company pledges to reduce charges, millions of people are paying more for long distance calls, sometimes as much as $1 a minute.

• Apple’s iPhone Is Telecom Bling -- What's Hidden in AT&T’s Wireless 'Fine Print'?
• Wireless Spectrum Fraud FCC Complaint

Click'Watch "Net At Risk"

• DTV: Not All Sweetness and Light, Comm. Technology, 9/23/08
• Digital Switch Creating Broadcast Coverage Gaps
  BroadbandReports.com,- 9/24/08
  Digital TV change may tune out rural areas Union Democrat, CA - 9/18/08

• BLOG:Bad FCC Analysis: 1997 Data Was Used to Kill Off Data Requirements on AT&T, Verizon and Qwest: Part One
• BLOG: DTV Stories: Tom Allibone adds to recent stories posted by AP and Broadcast & Cable.

• New Web Site: Failed Fiber Optic Services: What's happening in Wisconsin happened in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California, Connecticut --- and more.
• Verizon Bilked Customers $5-$6 Billion for NJ Fiber Optic Broadband Cover-Up: $2000 Per Household
• Verizon Fios The FiOS ads say, ‘This is big!’ Well, maybe it is, and maybe it isn’t

• Bell Merger Mess Our letter to the Judge about AT&T, Verizon harms.
• Our FTC Merger Complaint
• Teletruth Comments on AT&T-BellSouth Merger: Put Up 19 Million Homes by 2008 or Break Up Mergers.

• Missing Equipment Scandal --- $80 billion added to phone rates