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 […]

Bob Frankston has posted an essay relating to Bruce Kushnick’s book at SATN.Org, a site he shares with Dan Bricklin, David Reed, and others. It is cross-posted there, along with other material. Amatrya Sen: no famine has ever occurred in a democratic country with a free press and regular elections. The Internet can deliver on […]

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 […]