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-------- Original Message --------
We are planning to give
away our well documented ebook $200
Billion Broadband Scandal for free for one week, starting Tuesday,
June 20th
2006 FREE COPY (PDF 1.6MB) http://www.teletruth.org/docs/BROADBANDSCANDAL.pdf Harold Feld, Sascha
Meinrath and others have previously
written about the book. http://www.newnetworks.com/scandalquotes.htm We could use help to make
this campaign work and would like
to know if Free Press, Save the Internet, and others you work with
would offer
this free book and use (or create) talking points – to have customers
write
their senators for an investigation. The
goal.
--- Stop the Senate’s actions on broadband and the internet this
session by
going after the basic economic argument. ---Follow the Money– that
customers
were charged excess fees for fiber optic networks they never received,
--- it
is the smoking gun and the Bells’ Achilles heel. We
have a large number of bloggers and experts who will be working on this
project.
However, we don’t have the resources or reach to get do an “offensive
campaign”. So,
we hope you will help out. Below is the draft letter. Bruce
Kushnick, Teletruth 718-238-7191 ================================================================================.
$200
Billion Broadband Scandal is NOW a
free download for ONE
WEEK ONLY
---starting
TUESDAY,
June 20th. 2006 http://www.teletruth.org/docs/BROADBANDSCANDAL.pdf
Senate Should Stop and
Investigate Verizon, AT&T,
BellSouth and Qwest’s Broadband and Internet Control and Deployments. –
FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL. Last week the House of Representatives caved
in and gave the phone
companies new financial concessions, and took away more of your rights
for an
open, competitive, broadband and Internet. This includes
eliminating/ignoring Net Neutrality. And this Thursday, the Senate is about to do
the same bad vote. Why
should there be an investigation? You paid for fiber optic networks you
never
received and it cost you thousands of dollars – and now Congress wants
to
give them more concessions and more of your money. Worse, The Proof? “$200 Billion
Broadband Scandal”
and this week the ebook is yours, free ---over 400 pages, 526 footnotes
of
documentation Write
the
Senate. Send them a free copy of the ebook with your compliments. Tell
your
friends. Get 10 involved. ASK THESE QUESTIONS: 1) FACT: Customers paid the phone companies
billions of dollars per
state in 'extra fees" for open, ubiquitous, fiber optic, 45 mbps,
high-definition video, 500+ channel service (in both directions) that
you never
received. --- About $2000 per household --- Where's all the money?
What
happened to the networks? Am I owed money? Should we trust these companies to do
anything different now? 2) Verizon's FiOS, and SBC's Lightspeed are
inferior, crippled services
that can't compete globally today and may never be fully deployed. Compare the speed and price of FiOS and DSL
with Do we really want these companies in control
of our Digital Future? Is
it really $40 bucks for 100 Mbps in 3) Customers continue to be charged a de
facto "Broadband
Tax" for FiOS and Lightspeed. Why am I paying this hidden tax for
something I may never get or want! 4) FCC—Bad Data Harmed the Economy. The book
shows that hundreds
of documents were omitted by the FCC in their broadband analysis.
Didn’t
the GAO find flaws in the FCC’s broadband data? How much worse are the
real facts? 5) They want to charge Google and others more
money for the same
service and block where
I can go? If we paid
extra fees for open
competitive networks, what right do they have to charge more or block
services? Solution: The
Senate should conduct hearings about these issues before it votes on
any new
financial concessions - Follow the Money and compare the Free Download page: (more about the issues,
Teletruth. Summary: Harvard's Nieman Watchdog Project,
"Where's that
broadband fiber-optic access?", http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Ask_this.view&askthisid=186 Two page synopsis http://www.newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.htm Teletruth is an independent, nationwide
customer alliance and was a
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