Broadband Reports flagship DSL Reports has spawned an item about the $200 Billion Broadband Scandal. It’s located at.
It’s reprinted below in full:
Do American Telcos Owe You $2,000? – Kushnick attacks bells for fiber-optic trickery & deceit
According to the baby bells’ least favorite critic Bruce Kushnick, the telcos have received more than $200 billion in tax cuts and other incentives to provide promised symmetrical fiber-optic connectivity to millions of Americans – connectivity that never arrived (though the incentives were never repaid). According to Kushnick, he believes each American consumer is owed roughly $2,000 for services never rendered.
Says Kushnick of his new report: "It is a tale of deceit, fraudulent data and gaming the regulatory system using fake consumer groups, biased research firms and campaign-financed politicians to control everything from the FCC, to Congress, to the state legislatures and commissions to vote for phone-company-financed laws that are not in the public interest."
A long discussion thread follows. Well worth reading.
