From the desk of Bruce Kushnick: Since Ivan Seidenberg feels so strongly that Verizon needs relief, let’s look at the record. In 2000, Verizon’s domestic telecom expenditures were $12.1 billion NOW, in 2005, Verizon is claiming to be spending all of this money on FIOS, its latest fiber to the home plan. Yet its total […]
Bruce Kushnick offers some articles you should read today. Let There Be WiFi By Robert McChesney and John Podesta, The Washington Monthly Broadband is the electricity of the 21st century — and much of America isbeing left in the dark. Interview with Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg The Washington Post "If the company does not get […]
The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information,and the School of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University and the Federal Communications Bar Association present "The Telecommunications Act of 1996: Ten Years Later" Bruce Kushnick: Turns out that the two representatives for the CONSUMERS are Sam Simon, of TRAC, (who runs the largest Bell Skunkworks’ and […]
The biggest lie in the debate about broadband is that it’s expensive, and that its price is rising. NO, writes Bob Frankston: THIS STUFF IS CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP. IT’s FREE! Better, it reduces the costs so don’t pander to those who assume that pain is virtue. We’ve already paid for so much and its running. […]
Recently, Level 3 Regulatory Counsel Erik Cecil brought former FCC official Dale Hatfield to Wyoming in order to fight a Qwest effort to gain a virtual monopoly on Internet backhaul in that state. (Wyoming map from Wikipedia.) Qwest went to state regulators to demand that Level 3, which offers competitive pricing on fiber-based backhaul, would […]
I wrote the following this evening and cross-posted at my Mooreslore blog. Change is the one business constant. Those who embrace it succeed, those who resist it fail. But change also dislocates. Workers threatened by change organize unions and seek protection from government. The Luddite movement was a call by workers to smash the new […]
Gordon Cook extracted the following from today’s traffic on the mailing list created on behalf of the $200 Billion Broadband Scandal. The picture is not from the list. Instead it’s from Steve Borgerding, who took it on a field trip with Melrose, Minnesota Troop 68 of the Boy Scouts. A failure of imagination to see […]
How did all this intellectual firepower (and typing skills) get together on one blog? Gordon Cook explains: In the first few days of January Bruce Kushnick asked me if i would consider placing my private ‘symposium’ mail list behind his efforts to get the story behind his $200 Billion Broadband Scandal drummed into the public […]
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 […]
Sascha Meinrath, an award-winning scholar now at the University of Illinois‘ Institute of Communications Research, offers a review of, and endorsement, of the $200 Billion Broadband Scandal today. It is cross-posted at his blog and re-posted here with permission. I was lucky enough to be able to look over an advance copy of Bruce Kushnick’s […]
