$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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• AT&T and Verizon are Manipulating Access Line Losses. U-verse and FiOS not included in counts, among other problems.
• 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.

• Harvard Nieman: Expect big problems in the switch to digital TV
• 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!
• 20 Reasons Why the Universal Service Fund is an Out of Control Slush Fund And What we Should Do About it.
• 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

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• 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

• Harvard Nieman: Stimulate This: promising beginning—or a new boondoggle for AT&T, Verizon and rural phone companies.
• HarvardNieman: Dear President-Elect Obama --- Is it time to break up AT&T and Verizon again?
• 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.

• Free Press Proposes Broadband Infrastructure Bailout of $44 Billion --- (More Taxes to Give Wealthy Companies that Failed to Build Out Their Networks.)
• Broadband Opportunity - Job Creation, Healthcare, Education - Report from Deloitte & Touche -- And the Stimulus Plans.
• 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