DEEP DIVE ARCHIVE

Huffington Post/Medium articles about AT&T and California

• Open Letter to California about SB-649: You’re being Played by ALEC & AT&T Et Al.
• The Copper-Wire World of AT&T: The Reason to Investigate AT&T, Now
• Expose: AT&T California Fiber Optic Scandal: Billions Charged for Broadband that Never Showed Up.
• Californians Paid Billions Extra: The State Assembly Should Investigate AT&T’s Cross-Subsidies.
• Brendan Carr Omitted Critical Facts in His Testimony to Congress: He Worked for AT&T, Verizon, Et Al.
• Regulatory Capture of the FCC: Stacking the Deck with the New Proposed Republican Commissioner
• California Wireless Legislation: Paid for by AT&T Et Al.
• AT&T, ALEC, FCC. The FCC’s plans are based on AT&T’s Petition, which is from ALEC Model Legislation.
• AT&T’s 1000 Foot Violation of AT&T-DirecTV Merger Conditions?
• AT&T’s Fiber Optic Construction Last Six Years — $140 Billion, or One Slice of Pizza and “FiberHype”?
• The FCC and AT&T Don’t Care About Rural Areas and They Can Just Make Crap Up
• Are the FCC and AT&T Harming the Children of Rural Communities?
• MobTel: Some of America’s Most Hated ISPs, Cable TV and Wireless Companies Have Their Associations Suing the FCC Over Net Neutrality
• Stop the AT&T-DirecTV Merger or History Will Slap Us in the Face
• Will the FCC Ignore Our Complaint? Did AT&T Commit Perjury, Claiming it had Covered 100 Percent of 21 States With Broadband?
• Did AT&T Commit Perjury? Does AT&T have 100 Percent Broadband Coverage in 21 States?
• Did AT&T, Verizon, Et al., Garner Over $17 Billion in ‘Very Small Business’ Spectrum Licenses?
• Telecom Sleaze: ALEC and Its Communication’s Funders — AT&T, Verizon, Centurylink, Comcast and Time Warner Cable

BACK IN THE STACKS: 2002-2010

• FREE REPORT on Telecom Charges. Phone, Broadband, Wireless, Internet & Cable Charges in San Diego, California.
• With the removal of AT&T as a competitor, the prices of service increased and there was a clear harm to customers in terms of choice of service, Also, it is clear that this impacted previous AT&T customers adversely, especially low volume or low income families. — Based on survey of actual phone bills in San Diego CA working with UCAN, on a grant from the CA Consumer Protection Fund, done originally in 2004 then repeated in 2008.
  • Teletruth Files Two Comments about AT&T-BellSouth Merger: 
  • Competition: FCC Can’t Create Enforceable Merger Conditions.FCC/Bells Harmed Competition — 43% Drop in Wholesale Lines. The Mergers Eliminated Competitors.
• Teletruth Sends Letter to Judge Sullivan Regarding the Bell-AT&T-MCI Merger Review.
• The Bell Mergers Harmed Broadband Deployment, Competition and the Economy.
• The AT&T and MCI Deals Added New Harms to the Public Interest – New Neutrality Concerns

• Wireless Spectrum Fraud by AT&T, Verizon, Cingular — Are they Very Small Businesses?
• Very Large Phone Companies have been able to create ‘fake fronts’ to bid on wireless spectrum as Very Small Businesses? Is this fraud?

• FTC Complaint for Commercial Speech, Deceptive Practices in Mergers,
• Teletruth files this Complaint with the FTC, claiming that the previous Bell mergers were based on a massive, 10-year pattern of misrepresentation, untruthful and outright fraudulent statements made to customers. How many misleading, deceptive or fraudulent statements does it take to become a case of fraud?
• TO READ THE RELEASE
• To Read this Complaint
• To Read the MINI-REPORT on SBC’s Mergers (PDF)

• Break Up SBC, Break Up Verizon
• Teletruth Requests Congress Start Immediate Investigations into the Previous Bell Mergers.
•  Do Not Let 2 Companies Control America’s Digital Future! — More Materials.26 States Lost Fiber Optic Broadband After each merger, SBC and Verizon cut fiber optic deployments. It impacted 26 states, over 200 million people.

• The AT&T-SBC, Verizon-MCI Mergers. Death to Competition. Investigate and Break Up SBC, Break Up Verizon.
• Comments: FCC in WC Docket 05-65, May 10^th, 2005 TeleTruth Asks Senator Hollings for Hearings to Break Up SBC-Ameritech and Pay $1.2 Billion in Penalties. By April 2002 SBC was supposed to be competing in 30 cities outside their region. The commitments were set because SBC merged with Ameritech, another Bell company. According to the agreement, the FCC can “Divest” SBC of Ameritech and it is required to pay $1.2 billion in penalties. Therefore, TeleTruth (with New Networks Institute) is calling on Congressional hearings. This failure has raised the rates of every local subscriber because competition did not come into the markets to lower prices.
• For more information about the SBC Ameritech Merger
• To read the letter to Senator Hollings
• For a list of the cities SBC was supposed to compete
• The SBC-Pacific Telesis-SNET-Ameritech Mergers Were the Death of StateFiber Optic Deployments: