Bruce Kushnick, Managing Director
TO: Los Angeles County: Open Letters from the IRREGULATORS
Solve the Digital Divide.
Investigate AT&T; Halt the Overcharging and Cross-Subsidies:
| Dear LA County: Time to Investigate How AT&T (Pac Bell) Helped to Create the Digital Divide. Los Angeles County, (and the iconic cities, towns, and municipalities that it encompasses, such as Santa Monica and Los Angeles, to Hollywood and Compton), like most of America, has proclaimed it is time to close the Digital Divide once and for all. … | |
| Dear LA County: Investigate the Real Shockeroo; America’s Egregious Broadband Rates vs the EU 27 Prices. Read: First lA County Open Letter The prices for communications and information services, including everything from broadband and internet to wireless and even basic phone service, are out of control and this is the primary reason given by households as to why they don’t go online and thus this is… | |
| Treasure Chest of Billions to Solve the Digital Divide for Cities, Counties and States: Dear LA County. In just 2019, the IRREGULATORS estimated that AT&T California, also known as Pacific Bell, had overcharged customers about $1.7 billion — $2.4 billion, and this is a fraction of the total. Moreover, it has been going on for decades. Fixing the cross-subsidies and overcharges should provide enough funds to upgrade… | |