bruce kushnick

6 days ago

When Your Service Slows to 128 Kbps, and You’re Paying 5–20 Times More for Wireless than Overseas — Scream for Investigations.

Part 1 explained the basic history of America’s FCC standard speeds for broadband. And we discussed that there is a proceeding underway to have 100 Mbps download, 20 Mbps upload as the new US broadband standard. Unfortunately, 100 Mbps speed is just the punchline of a bad joke; the regulators…

5 G

6 min read

When Your Service Slows to 128 Kbps, and You’re Paying 5–20 Times More for Wireless than Overseas —…

Jul 31

Broadband Speed in America: Snail Pulling a Collection of AT&T et al. Paid Off or Clueless Regulators in a Clown Car.

With the calls for higher speeds for broadband and a current FCC proceeding now discussing 100 Mbps download, 20 Mbps upload speeds as the new American standard, we need to add some very sobering facts about the last 30 years as a warning sign of what is going to happen…

Broadband

9 min read

Jul 17

AT&T Puts Its ‘21 State Footprint’ in Its Mouth.

No Government Subsidies before Audits of the 21 State Public Telecommunications Utilities that AT&T has Allowed to Deteriorate. AT&T has added the term “21 State Footprint” to their discussions with the public and investors. …

ATT

11 min read

AT&T Puts Its ‘21 State Footprint’ in Its Mouth.

Jun 30

Verizon New York 2021 Annual Report Reveals Massive Financial Scandal.

IRREGULATORS: The Cooked Books Need Immediate Audits in Every State; Halt All Government Subsidies. On June 1st, 2022, Verizon NY 2021 Annual Report was released, (as a spreadsheet) and it represents the largest telecommunications public utility in NY State. …

Verizon

10 min read

Apr 29

The Attacks on the Proposed FCC Commissioner, Gigi Sohn, Are Also Attacks on Our Democracy.

How much money does it take to block a proposed FCC Commissioner from getting appointed? How much money does it take to corrupt our democratic process by the telecommunications companies, AT&T, Verizon, and CenturyLink that caused the Digital Divide and now want to get rewarded with the new wave of…

FCC

7 min read

The Attacks on the Proposed FCC Commissioner, Gigi Sohn, Are Also Attacks on Our Democracy.

Mar 24

IRREGULATORS to NY STATE: Halt the Verizon Wireless and Corporate Operations Subsidies: Get Back Billions Overcharged by Verizon, Now.

Here’s How to Solve the Digital Divide without Government Subsidies. CLICK: NNI/IRREGULATORS NY FILINGS Across America, every city and every state is now attempting to figure out how to get their hands on a part of the hundreds of billions of dollars of state and federal government subsidies that have…

Verizon

16 min read

Mar 23

What Do You Mean America had National and State Fiber Optic Plans in 1993? We Were Punked.

Did you know that the first wireless bait-and-switch for fiber to the home was 1995? “Institutional memory” requires that someone — some government agency, or some academic center, or some political party or… anyone… actually keeps the knowledge of the past intact so that we don’t keep making the same…

Fiber Optics

14 min read

What Do You Mean America had National and State Fiber Optic Plans in 1993? We Were Punked.

Mar 16

Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink Created the Digital Divide on Purpose: Where’s All the Money?

CLICK TO READ PART 1 THIS IS PART 2 Unknown to virtually everyone in America, Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink are three holding companies, created through mergers, that control most of America’s state-based telecommunications public utilities. Since the 1990’s they have announced both state and federal plans to upgrade these mostly…

Digital Divide

13 min read

Mar 7

No Government Subsidies to AT&T, Verizon and CenturyLink: They Created the Digital Divide on Purpose. Where’s All the Money?

PART 2: WHERE ARE THE HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT SHOULD HAVE UPGRADED AMERICA’S CRITICAL WIRED INFRASTRUCTURE? Before 1 cent of new government subsidies is given out, especially to these companies, we want answers to basic questions, a halt to ongoing illegal cross-subsidies and to use these funds to build out the fiber networks BEFORE the government rewards the companies that created the Digital Divide.

Broadbandmaps

11 min read

No Government Subsidies to AT&T, Verizon and CenturyLink: They Created the Digital Divide on…

Mar 4

Ode to Wireless 3G: Did 42 Million People Just Get Screwed?

Will another 100 million get screwed over the closing of 4G LTE? My cell phone just turned into a paperweight. I got the announcement above multiple times from TracFone wireless on the day they killed my service. When I call it is the sound of one hand clapping. …

3 G

8 min read

Ode to Wireless 3G: Did 42 Million People Just Get Screwed?