IRREGULATORS: How Much Bullsheet do we have to Endure from the FCC? Enough.
Dear Reporters: Here’s what you should know about the FCC’s June 26th, 2025 open meeting.
(NOTE: In 2011, the profit margins for Comcast NY’s VOIP and Data could be 90%. By 2022, everything is redacted — Show us the money should be the public’s request.
On June 26th 2025, the FCC has a scheduled open meeting and it will feature Chairman Carr’s attempt to throw away all of the Cable TV Act, slicing and dicing ‘rate regulation’, consmer protections, and even the accounting used, known as Uniform System of Accounting, USOA.
This is part of Chairman Brendan Carr’s Delete, Delete, Delete, babble — which is simply to erase all obligations and requirements on the cable, broadband, wireless and phone companies.
With the addition of the new Republican commissioner, Olivia Trusty, Carr will just ram through a strip mining of consumer protections, obligations to make sure prices are ‘just and reasonable’, and all of the accounting requirements so that the tracks of these companies will be hidden from view.
The IRREGULATORS will not allow this bullsheet to continue unchallenged as it is based on stale rhetoric, garbage statistics and no actual facts, just lawyer-eeze to obfuscate whatever is said or implied.
- We will be filing a Data Quality Act complaint as soon as we see the damage proposed by the FCC.
- We challenge the FCC to an open public debate.
The IRREGULATORS, with an average of 40 years each, has been heavily involved in audits and investigations; we created 4 successfully settled class action suits and billing mistakes, charges added to the bills that were not ordered… and with the audits of LTC Consulting of munis, school boards, and small business — we have proven track record of billing issues.
NOTE: As, New Networks Institute, our 1993 consumer surveys, (with Probe Research) — using actual bills, was used to create the first flat rate long distance plan — Sprint’s $.10 a minute, with Candice Bergen, and our survey question is featured, changing long distance pricing worldwide, saving over a trillion dollars in customer charges and telco costs.
We add this to show that we are the experts, not the FCC, and we did it using the survey of actual bills and consumer interviews:
- The FCC does not collect and survey actual bills,
- The FCC relies on flawed government data, like BLS-CPI without the total costs, no actual bills and uses advertisements
- The BLS-CPI does not do a total bill and leaves out made up fees, taxes, fees and surcharges, and various taxes.
- Nothing the FCC does will relate to a primary fact — The FCC never addresses the actual costs of offering service has been in steep decline, including the cutting of staff, or the failure to properly upgrade their networks — and thus, prices should have been going down, not up.
- The FCC’s has never examined the actual financials such as the USOA accounting and in fact there are questions about the failure of the FCC to deal with the cross-subsidies that are in place with the FCC’s order to ‘freeze the expense allocations to the year 2000. — another scandal waiting to be exposed.
In short, history predicts that — Everything that the FCC says about ‘rate regulation” will be made up, and all of the information the FCC supplies about prices going down will be made up, and all of the harms and burdens from the accounting will be made up and in the end — it is a corruption of all of the data and analysis that is required to make accurate public policies much less strip mine consumer protections.
But let’s give some details and what we expect:
1) Chairman Carr has told America that prices have gone down, not up —
The IRREGULATORS Data Quality Act Complaint will present 10 separate specific examples showing how the FCC’s data is an embarrassment — here’s just a few
- AT&T Wireless, broadband, Internet and Phone all had major increases multiple times over the 5 years..
- Verizon Wireless Increases in 2024 and in 2025. Verizon told investors it had 4 major “Rate-Ups” in 2024
2). Reporters, ask Carr why he has not removed the made up junk fees that are all over the cable TV, broadband internet, etc. services.
3) IRREGULATORS filed a Complaint to the FTC: Remove All Cost Recovery Junk Fees on 350 Million AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile Wireless Connections, $15 Billion Annually- to Start
4) Show Us the Books: — As the opening chart displays hiding the actual accounting of the cable companies’ franchised business.
Before Any VOTE — WE WANT TO SEE THESE FINANCIALS IMMEDIATELY.
This chart takes the 2010–2011 financial report from Comcast NY and shows what we found in 2022–2023 — Everything is redacted.
5) We also want to see the Verizon NY 2024 Cable TV FIOS Annual Report and all Annual Report.
Note; Verizon NY is state based and tied to the Verizon NY state public telecommunication utility — a fact left out of these discussions.
6) Explain Why America’s prices are some of the most expensive in the world.
America’s Egregious Broadband Rates vs Overseas Prices. Why?
The triple play is about $30-$40 a month overseas — focusing on the EU.
In the US the triple play averaged $220.00 (according to Consumer Reports) and our research
7) The USOA Accounting Scandal:
In 2017–2018, the IRREGULATORS filed over 1200 pages of documentation that the financials were corrupt and that the FCC’s freeze caused massive financial cross-subsidies.
Brendan Carr was General Counsel, Ajit Pai the Chairman and they ignored all attempts to have the FCC halt these cross-subsidies.
The Verizon New York 2024 Annual Report Just Came Out and It Contradicts Everything; Common Wisdom Is Wrong.
Read: Verizon NY 2024 Annual Report, (spreadsheet format)
Read the New Report: IRREGULATORS’ Summary Analysis of Verizon NY 2024 Annual Report
Read our FCC Filing: How the FCC Joint State-Federal Board created massive financial cross-subsidies with “The 25 year Freeze” — and the Verizon NY cross-subsidies were created using these cooked books.
Read our FCC filed comments about the FCC’s “Delete, Delete, Delete, e which also gives some of the background and how what you are about to read is tied to the FCC’s previous actions.
This is what massive deregulation looks like — Burdens and harms have been placed on the public,
On May 27, 2025, the Verizon NY 2024 Financial Annual Report for the telecommunications state public utility was released. Common wisdom would have you believe that there are no state telecom utilities left in America or that it is just the ‘legacy’ copper wires, and very few are left.
Because the FCC failed to properly examine our research and analysis, in just New York…. To be continued.
