Every Government Broadband Agency is Negligent for the Failure to Investigate and Clawback, Get Back the Money. Maybe someone should ask the “Public” whether they think it’s OK for the government to give out $100 billion in state and federal subsidies, when they — the FCC, the state broadband agencies…

The agencies, politicians, advocates and even the investigative reporters don’t even know who is to blame, or what are the core issues that need to be addressed to fix it. America is now giving over $100 billion in government funding to ‘solve the Digital Divide’. We’ve checked multiple county and…

2 New Books Exposing Massive Customer Overcharging and How Big Telecom Created the Digital Divide. Paraphrasing a conversation between authors David Rosen and Bruce Kushnick. “I didn’t order that Verizon service, Techsure, (which is an in-home maintenance service). I have no idea how it ended up on my broadband-internet bill. And it’s $15 a month. Then you tell me that it is also bombarded with…

By David Rosen with Bruce Kushnick On October 14th, 2022, AT&T Illinois, (also known as Illinois Bell Telephone Company), agreed to pay a $23 million fine to resolve a federal criminal investigation into alleged misconduct involving the company’s efforts to unlawfully influence former Illinois Speaker of the House Michael J…

No audits or investigations or explanations of how ‘The Company We Will Not Name’ — (AT&T et al.) red-lined, cross-subsidized, overcharged, and failed to upgrade America’s critical wired, public utility infrastructure over the last 30 years — including LA County. On Nov. 15th, 2022 the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors…

In just 2019, the IRREGULATORS estimated that AT&T California, also known as Pacific Bell, had overcharged customers about $1.7 billion — $2.4 billion, and this is a fraction of the total. Moreover, it has been going on for decades. Fixing the cross-subsidies and overcharges should provide enough funds to upgrade…

Read: First lA County Open Letter The prices for communications and information services, including everything from broadband and internet to wireless and even basic phone service, are out of control and this is the primary reason given by households as to why they don’t go online and thus this is…

Los Angeles County, (and the iconic cities, towns, and municipalities that it encompasses, such as Santa Monica and Los Angeles, to Hollywood and Compton), like most of America, has proclaimed it is time to close the Digital Divide once and for all. And yet, there are fundamental, underlying facts that…

(AKA —South Central Bell, BellSouth) Exposing the Digital Divide and the State, Wired, Telecommunications, Public Utility. This chart is a map of the western part of Tennessee, created by the Tennessee Department of Economic & Community Development, showing the ‘unserved’ and ‘underserved’ areas, represented by the color blue, commonly known…