Verizon & AT&T's Wireless Broadband: $1,125.00 for One Month of Cable TV; $375.00 to Watch Netflix -- and that's Not Even 'HD'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/verizon--atts-wireless-br_b_7829664.html This is all a con. The 'IP Transition' is not about technology; it is designed to remove regulations and obligations and to shut off the copper networks so that the wireless companies, AT&T and Verizon, can sell you more expensive services. Install Fiber? No. The Plan is to Shut Off the Copper and then Force Customers onto Wireless. Verizon announced it is no longer upgrading its copper networks to fiber optics, leaving about 50 percent uncovered. And in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Verizon has gone to each state to get rid of requirements to offer wired, very fast broadband for slow, expensive wireless, claiming it is a substitute for the wired networks. AT&T's entire U-Verse cable TV service is based on a copper-to-the-home service, not fiber optic, and history tells us that AT&T's announced plans for fiber are just a 'broadband carrot' to push through the AT&T-DirecTV merger; most of this is just fiber-to-the-press-release. Even AT&T's new fiber optic 'Gigapower' announcements will only bring 15 percent of the 77 million locations to a fiber optic future (if they were actually deployed). Secret "Special Access": But the kicker is -- even though AT&T and Verizon are shutting off the copper-based wired networks, at least Verizon was able to get the local phone customers to pay for the fiber optic-wires-to-the-cell-towers, which are not being shut off. In fact, AT&T and Verizon have monopolies on these wires in their territories so they even control the costs competitors have to pay for using these networks (at inflated rates). I.e., AT&T and Verizon control T-Mobile & Sprint's bottom-line costs. - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
