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Bruce Kushnick
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Bruce Kushnick has been a telecom analyst for 36 years and is currently the executive director of New Networks Institute, now a consortium of independent telecommunications, broadband, Internet and new technology analysts, forensic auditors and lawyers. And he has been playing the piano for 61 years.

Verizon’s Subsidiaries & Investments in 470+ Companies/Entities, Worldwide.
Dear New Jersey Governor Murphy: Fix the NJBPU; Make Verizon Finish 100% of the Fiber Optic Upgrades.
Net Neutrality Warning: The Digital Ernestine, Phone Operator
Net Neutrality Chant: “Sue the FCC; Break Up Verizon & AT&T”
FCC Pai’s ‘Backwards into the Future’ Blunders
The Trump-FCC-AT&T-Et Al. Plan: The Insidious “Wheel of Mis-Fortune”.
The Corporate Takeover of the Trump-FCC Is in Full Attack Mode.
Kevin Hassett Got it Wrong about “Title II” & Net Neutrality: The Proposed Tax Cuts Must be Worse.
Wireless Smartphones with Only 10Mbps Down, 1Mbps Up, are Not a Substitute for a Wired Broadband Connection.
America’s Wireless: 59th in the World in LTE; 2nd in ‘Most Expensive’ Data Prices; 40% Is Overcharged due to “Whamming”.
Not happy with your wireless service? Blame the FCC
Part II: Facts Missing from the FCC’s Section 706 Broadband Reports
FCC Rewrote America’s Broadband History; Covers Up $½ Trillion in Overcharging
Verizon’s FiOS Deployment In Boston Is Fiber-To-The-B.S.
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
Solve Net Neutrality, Privacy, & Bring Back Competition: Break Up AT&T and Verizon… Again.
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.
Verizon NY in Multi-Billion Dollar Settlement Tangle, Underway in New York State
IRREGULATORS: Stop the FCC and Investigate AT&T, Verizon, Et Al.
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
Ordering a Pizza or being Arrested? Communications in the Year 2020.
Verizon and AT&T Should be Required to Deliver FTTP, Fiber to the Home – Finally.
Verizon New York 2016 Annual Report Reveals Massive Financial Cross-Subsidies. State Investigation Heats Up; FCC’s Deformed Accounting Rules To Blame
Investigate the FCC’s Accounting Rule Scandal before They are Erased.
IRREGULATORS: It Is Time to Take the FCC to Court: 5 Issues Beyond Net Neutrality
California Wireless Legislation: Paid for by AT&T Et Al.
“Title II” Is Used to Overcharge Local Utility Customers, Turning Them into “Defacto” Investors.
FCC Commissioner Tells ALEC To Help Squash Net Neutrality
AT&T, ALEC, FCC. The FCC’s plans are based on AT&T’s Petition, which is from ALEC Model Legislation.
Free Copy: “The Book of Broken Promises: $400 Billion Broadband Scandal & Free the Net”
It is Time to Take the FCC to Court.
FREE DOWNLOAD: “The Book of Broken Promises: $400 Billion Broadband Scandal & Free the Net”
FCC Chairman Pai Gets an “F” for Fake History of Broadband: Ever Hear of TeleKansas?
The FCC Wants to Hide All Controversial Cross-Subsidies and Manipulations of AT&T, Verizon and CenturyLink’s Financial Accounting.
STOP ALL IMPORTANT FCC VOTES UNTIL THERE ARE THE REQUIRED 5 COMMISSIONERS.
Whamming & Digital Stalking: There Is No Privacy Online Today.
FCC Chairman Pai Endorses Invasion of Your Privacy and Digital Stalking
FCC: I Do Believe We’re on the Eve of Destruction.
America’s Wireless Unlimited Plans Are Not Unlimited & Not Cheap.
Don’t Believe Those Against Net Neutrality, Title II and Privacy—Funded by the Phone, Cable and Wireless Associations: USTA, NCTA, & the CTIA
Billions in Cross-Subsidies Could Bring Fiber Optic Broadband to Massachusetts Cities—But Remain Unchallenged
Verizon’s Boston FiOS Fiber to the Home Plan Needs Investigating—Now.
Verizon’s Boston FiOS Fiber-Wireless Bait-N-Switch
FCC Transition Leader Jeff Eisenach Works for Verizon, Not the Public.
How the FCC & Trump’s Transition Team Leader, Jeff Eisenach, Helped to Kill Competition in America.
Jeffrey Eisenach should be Purged from the FCC Transition Team as a Phone Company Lobbyist.
What to Expect from the New Trump FCC – A More Polluted Digital Swamp.
We Need to Break Up AT&T. We Don’t Need More Mergers. We Just Need Investigations—Now.
The Hartman Memorandum: FCC Rules Created Massive Cross Subsidies for Business Data Services.
Overcharged for Wireless Service? Let Me Count the Ways.
CWA Backs Telco Play to Keep Special Access Rates Inflated.
Fiber to the Home is Dead. The Plan: Shut Off the Wires and Replace it with Wireless Vaporware.
Verizon’s Wireline Networks Diverted Billions for Wireless Deployments Instead of Wiring Municipalities, and Charged Phone Customers for It.
FCC’s Business Data Services Actions Could Harm Your Investment and Community
Verizon, Fiber, Boston, Wireless: History Repeats Itself, Yet Again.
Verizon’s Boston Faux-FiOS, “One Fiber” Strategy Exposed
Should Verizon be Allowed to Buy Yahoo When it Failed to Upgrade and Maintain America’s East Coast?
5G Wireless, the IP Transition and Broadband Data Services Impacted by Cross-Subsidies
AT&T’s IP Transition Trials Lost 32% of “Legacy” Customers, yet the Overhyped Con Continues.
Infrastructure Held Hostage: The End Game
New Verizon 2015 Financial Report: Massive ‘Special Access’ and ‘Local Service’ Cross-Subsidies
More Exposed: Verizon’s FiOS-Wireless Bait & Switch in Boston
AT&T’s 1000 Foot Violation of AT&T-DirecTV Merger Conditions?
The Age of the High-Flying Tech (HFT) Gadgeteer Is Upon Us—Flying Machines & New Wheeled Things.
AT&T and Verizon’s Wireline and Wireless Cross-Subsidies Harm Competition and Every Communications Service You Use
The Wireline-Wireless Broadband and Internet Bait and Switch
Verizon’s $300 Million Shell Game in Boston and Cross-Subsidizing Wireless
Corporate Greed vs Critical Infrastructure: Greed Won. America Lost.
Verizon Has Been on the FCC Consumer Advisory Committee (CAC) for 16 Years. What the…?
FCC’s Broadband ‘Nutrition Labels’: You Will Eat More Fat, Sugar and Salt
R.”I.P.” Rest in Peace, AT&T IP Transition Trials.
Are the Salaries of Verizon’s Executives Being Charged to Low Income Families?
Will the FCC Stop Verizon & AT&T’s Manipulation of Financial Accounting & Special Access (BDS) Overcharges?
Verizon, Boston, Bernie, Fiber and the Facts
Verizon’s Tax Payments vs. Average Worker’s Withholding Tax Payments
Verizon CWA and IBEW Union Members Go on Strike: America’s Communications Future Is at Stake.
Verizon NY Paid Virtually No Taxes Since 2003; Averaged $2.5+ Billion in Losses a Year for Five Years*
Special Access is $60+ Billion in Annual Revenues; Overcharging of Local Phone Customers is Over $121+ Billion from Cross-Subsidies for Just 5 Years*
PRIMER: ‘Special Access’ Wires and ‘Switched Access’ Wires are the Same Wires.
This Is Not the Info-Highway We Paid For
Time Warner Cable-Charter Merger? History Says: You Got to be Kidding!
Big Lies About America’s Telecommunications Lines
I’m “Guilty Until Proven Innocent,” Claims the FCC Order
How Many ‘Special Access’ Lines Are There in America? ‘Zero’ or 600 Million?
9 Things You Should Know About Verizon NY and the NY State Commission
New Reports Expose Verizon NY’s Financial Shell Game and the State Commission’s Role
AT&T & Verizon, With the FCC, Blocked My Access to Critical Broadband Data
Have You Received a Disconnect Notice From Verizon or AT&T Yet?
AT&T’s IP Transition Trials Are a Superhyped, Yet Unsuccessful, Con
The Age of Noise, Clutter and Spying on Us
‘Tell-the-Truth’ Legislation and the ‘Schmuck Device’ Uses the ‘Internet of Things’
Verizon Wireless’s 5G Deployment is a 1 Gig Fairy Tale.
AT&T Slams AT&T. AT&T & Verizon File to Block Kushnick from the FCC’s “Special Access” Data… Again.
Is America Overpaying for Internet & Broadband?
AT&T’s Fiber Optic Construction Last Six Years — $140 Billion, or One Slice of Pizza and “FiberHype”?
Exposing One of the Largest Accounting Scandals in American History
The FCC’s ‘Big Freeze’: 15 Years of Neglect
Why’s America Broadband Speeds Are Beyond Embarrassing
Verizon Has Filed Another Letter With the FCC to Block Our Access to “Special Access” Data
Verizon Files a ‘Me Too’ Objection with the FCC: Block Kushnick’s Access to the Special Access Data
Verizon’s Memo to Staff About FiOS: “Trust the Facts.” What About the Truth?
AT&T to FCC: Stop Kushnick From Examining the Special Access Data
AT&T’s ‘IP Transition’ Trials Appear to Be a Total Bomb
How the Pundits and FCC Commissioner Pai Got It Wrong — Fiber Optics Are ‘Title II’; Customers Are the Investors.
Uh-oh! Verizon NY’s Local Service Network Expenses Were $9.8 Billion From 2009-2014, Not $200 Million.
Deceptive Accounting Used by Verizon: Wired ‘Access Lines’ Have Been Dramatically Increasing, Not Decreasing
59 Twists and Turns to Verizon’s Calculated Play to Go Wireless and Dismantle the State-Based Wired Utilities
Did Rate Increases on Verizon N.Y.’s Basic Phone Service Pay for the Use of the Corporate Jet by Verizon’s CEO?
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
I Do It For My Aunt Ethel
New York City Fiber Optic Smackdown: Verizon & the USTA vs the City of N.Y.
Is Verizon Planning on Becoming an All-Wireless-Only Company: Who Needs the Wires Anyway?
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’.
Did Verizon NY, (With Help from NY State), Overcharge Phone Customers Over $752.00 for FiOS Services Most Will Never Get?
Stop the AT&T-DirecTV Merger or History Will Slap Us in the Face
Verizon and the NY State Public Service (‘Captured’) Commission
Will the FCC Ignore Our Complaint? Did AT&T Commit Perjury, Claiming it had Covered 100 Percent of 21 States With Broadband?
A Truly Bold Plan for New York City’s Broadband Future
Verizon’s Massive East Coast FiOS Scandal: 41 Percent Coverage Using ‘Weasel Room’ Math
New York City’s Audit of Verizon’s Fiber Optic Roll Out Exposes ‘Weasel Room’ Mathematics
Did Verizon NY Charge You for a Fiber Optic Service You May Never Get?
Verizon’s ‘Local Service’ and Wired Networks Are Profitable Once the Slush Fund of Corporate Expenses Is Removed
Verizon Is ‘Killing the Copper’ and Is Now Denying It
SUMMARY: Verizon PA’s Broadband Scandal — A Quadruple Bait-and-Switch
Verizon Pennsylvania’s Commitment to Have 100 Percent Coverage of High-Speed Broadband by 2015? — A Quadruple Bait-and-Switch
Verizon New York Lost $2.5 Billion in Just 2014, and that Might be the Good News
Verizon’s Coverage Area of NYC for Fiber Optic FiOS Is a Miserable 46% to 59%; Upstate NY Is Worse
Did AT&T Commit Perjury? Does AT&T have 100 Percent Broadband Coverage in 21 States?
Verizon’s ‘Pick Your Own Cable TV Channels’ Is Just Another Bait & Switch — Read the Fine Print
Verizon NJ and State Cut Stealth Agreement to Raise Phone Rates
Verizon-AOL Merger? Hell No!
Did AT&T, Verizon, Et al., Garner Over $17 Billion in ‘Very Small Business’ Spectrum Licenses?
Dear Governor Cuomo and Mayor De Blasio: Want Universal Broadband? Get Billions Back from Verizon and Time Warner Cable
Telecom Sleaze: ALEC and Its Communication’s Funders — AT&T, Verizon, Centurylink, Comcast and Time Warner Cable