Following are some quotes from the book, $200 Billion Broadband Scandal. Cross-posted from The Cook Report. Bruce Kushnick writes: "To be quite honest, we didn’t know the extent of just how much money was collected state by state until we actually filed complaints in Massachusetts in 1999 and Pennsylvania in 2001 over the failed deployments, […]

NOTE: The following is cross-posted to Steve Stroh’s blog, BWIA. New Book Lays Bare The Fiber Optic Broadband Future the US Should Have Had Bruce Kushnick has written a new book, $200 Billion Broadband Scandal, that details a truly massive bait and switch campaign by the major US telephone companies. What the major US telephone […]

NOTE: The following was originally published on my own blog, Mooreslore, and is cross-posted there. A few years ago some wags talked about people having a "right" to Internet service, and they got laughed at. Let’s try it another way. America’s economic future requires every citizen have access to Internet resources, and full freedom to […]

Richard Stastny, whose blog is called VOIP and ENUM, for Voice Over IP and Nestar’s ENUM, which will bring IP and the phone network together. Today he blogged about Bruce’s book. It’s cross-posted at his VOIP and ENUM Blog Last Friday I pointed to plans in Vienna to put FTTH in all households.  This seems […]

Cross-posted to The Isen Blog: Book: The $200 Billion Broadband Scandal, by Bruce Kushnick           My friend Bruce Kushnick is a man on a mission.  In The $200 Billion Broadband Scandal, he writes . . . in the early 1990’s . . . every Bell company . . . made commitments to […]

$200 Billion Broadband Scandal New investigative ebook offers micro-history of Verizon, SBC, Qwest, andBellSouth’s (the Bell companies) fiber optic broadband promises and theconsequence harms to America’s economic growth because they never deliveredand kept most of the money, about $200 billion. New York: This is one of the largest scandals in American history. Americais 16th in […]

Customers like you paid Verizon, SBC, Qwest and BellSouth for a fiber optics broadband service you never received and it caused serious economic harm to the American economy, as well as our pocketbooks.   America is 16th in broadband, even though we were number 1 in the World Wide Web.   You’re probably owed over  […]

One of the chief issues before consumers right now is the desire of the Bells to charge content providers for access to “their” customers. Telecom law attorney W. Scott McCullough of Austin, Texas sets that straight below: The answer is that the physical layer customer – the “end user” or “consumer” – has paid for […]

David Isenberg, author of the Rise of the Stupid Network and other classics, currently a fellow at the Berkman Center at Harvard, has posted a great response to Bruce’s coming book on his blog. The entry is reposted here with his permission:       The battle for Internet freedom has been joined.  Recently a […]

Upon reading Gordon’s draft on the morphing of capitalism, Frank Coluccio of DTI Consulting in New York and Silicon Investor fame reposted it on his forum, then engaged in this colloquy with a reader, investor Jim Kayne. It’s the kind of dialogue we hope all investors will engage in following the release of Bruce’s book […]