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Teletruth’s Progress Report
2006
From FCC, IRS, SEC Complaints,
State Filings, Proposed Legislation, to Phone Bill Audits
and Refunds, or Helping to Initiate Class Action Suits,
Teletruth is Working for Customers.
Special Current Events and
Items
- Class Action Suit settlement
against Verizon NJ for inoperative circuits, based on
phone data collected through Teletruth audits. October
2006 http://www.teletruth.org/prcircuits.htm
- "$200 Billion Broadband Scandal",
ebook, published March, 2006
- http://www.newnetworks.com/broadbandscandals.htm
- Harvard Nieman Watchdog series on
broadband and telecommunications issues.
- http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=about.viewContributor&bioid=130
- FTC, FCC, DOJ Complaint
pertaining to Bell mergers for deceptive
practices.
- http://www.newnetworks.com/FTCcomplaintSBCVerizon.htm
- Letter to Judge Sullivan over
SBC-AT&T, Verizon-MCI mergers.
- http://www.newnetworks.com/lettertosullivan.htm,
2006
- FCC, DOJ Wireless Spectrum Fraud
Complaint against AT&T, Cingular, and Verizon, posing
as "very small businesses" to obtain discounted
licenses.
- http://www.newnetworks.com/wirelesscomplaint.htm
- Appointment to the FCC Consumer
Advisory Committee for Tom Allibone, Teletruth Director
of Audits, LTC Consulting, Bruce Kushnick, Chairman,
Alternate, 2003-2004
- http://ftp.fcc.gov/cgb/cac/members.html
- Astroturf and
Skunkworks: Fake Consumer Groups, Biased Research
Center.
- http://www.newnetworks.com/skunkworks101.html
- FCC Complaint: Remove
Astroturf groups from FCC Consumer Advisory
Committee
- http://www.teletruth.org/consumeradvisory.html
- Class Action Suit settlement
against Verizon NJ for missing Small Business discounts,
based on phone data collected through Teletruth audits.
July/April, 2004
- http://www.teletruth.org/Smallbusinessdiscountsettlement.html
- Grant from the California Consumer
Protection Fund to work with UCAN on phone bill issues,
June 2004.
- Report: "Phone Bill
Independence: An Autopsy of Phone Bills", April
2004
- http://www.teletruth.org/phonebillindependencereport.html
- Expose: "The Dirty, Little,
Secret Lives of Phone Bills", Released April
2004
- http://www.teletruth.org/dirtysecretlives.htm
Phonebill Issues:
- Class Action Suit settlement
against Verizon NJ for inoperative circuits, based on
phone data collected through Teletruth audits. October
2006 http://www.teletruth.org/prcircuits.htm
- Local prices have soared since the
break up of AT&T: 426% in New York City, Harvard
Nieman Watchdog, 2006
- http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=00233
- 14 Reasons Why Universal Service
has become a Slush Fund and the Steven's Bill is
Flawed, 2006
- http://www.newnetworks.com/usfanalysis.htm
- "Send Us Your Phone Bill Campaign
with ABC News, Pittsburgh
- http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/money/3920162/detail.html
- Class Action Suit settlement
against Verizon NJ for missing Small Business discounts,
based on phone data collected through Teletruth audits.
July/April, 2004
- http://www.teletruth.org/Smallbusinessdiscountsettlement.html
- "Phone Bill Tax &Surcharge
Intelligence Tests", July 2004 (Easy and
Hard)
- http://www.newnetworks.com/phonebillintelligencetest.htm
- Comments at the
NASCUA Declaratory Truth-in-Billing Petition, July
2004
- http://www.teletruth.org/docs/CommentsFCCTIB.pdf
- Data Quality Act Challenge of the
FCC Line Charge, June 2004
- http://www.teletruth.org/RemoveFCCLineCharge.html
- Truth-in-Billing Petition over the
FCC Line Charge, June 2004
- http://www.teletruth.org/RemoveFCCLineCharge.html
- FREE Phonebill audits, 2002
– 2003
- http://www.newnetworks.com/PRSendphonesbills.htm
- 2 Class Action suits
initiated,Teletruth members are acting as consultants,
2002-2004
- http://www.newnetworks.com/class_action_suits_against.htm.
- 48 NJ phonebill Audits and
Truth-in-Billing Complaints filed with
FCC,2002.
- 48 "Truth in Billing" Complaints
filed with the NJ Dept. of Trans. and Energy,
2002
- proposed bill in New Jersey
Legislature on phone bill issues, 2002
- FCC Comments over Long Distance,
NJ and "OSS" issues, 2002 http://www.teletruth.org/docs/NJ271commentsBK.doc
- "FCC Subscriber Line Charge"
complaint, 2001 http://www.newnetworks.com/pressslccomplaint.htm
- Portability Charge Petition, 2001
http://www.newnetworks.com/New%20Portability%20Petition.htm
- Portability Horror Story, 2002
http://www.teletruth.org/About/newsletter/Portabilitynightmare.htm
- "Truth in Billing" laws,
2002
- http://www.newnetworks.com/FCC_CC_98-170.txt
Broadband, VOIP, and Competitive
Issues:
- Letter to Senate: Verizon's
FiOS, AT&T's Lightspeed - The Rise of the Crippled
Networks
- http://www.newnetworks.com/fioslightspeed.htm
- The Death of VOIP,
2005
- http://www.newnetworks.com/thedeathofvoip.htm
- Data Quality Act Complaints About
FCC Broadband Reports, October 2004
- http://www.teletruth.org/docs/TeletruthNIA706Dataqualityact.pdf
- Data Quality Act Filed With
National Internet Alliance (NIA) Over FCC Generated
Information about Internet Service Providers, 8 Year old
data used. October 2004
- http://www.teletruth.org/docs/TeletruthNIAISPnumbersDataQualityAct.pdf
- Data Quality Act Complaint Over
Data Used for the Costs of the Phone Networks
- http://www.teletruth.org/docs/TeletruthNIACommentspdf.pdf
- Universal Broadband from
Verizon: Waiting for Godot is More Useful, August
2004
- http://www.newnetworks.com/universalbroadbandaccessbyverizon.htm
- Comments filed at the
FCC over taxation of VOIP, No 04-36, June
2004
- http://www.teletruth.org/docs/TeletruthCommentsFCCVOIP.pdf
- Reply Comments on
FCC Advanced Networks, No. 04-54, May
2004
- http://www.teletruth.org/docs/706Dataqualityactreplycomments.pdf
- Verizonlies.com and the
Pennsylvania Scam
- http://www.verizonlies.com/
- Updated Complaint filed in
Pennsylvania against Verizon, requesting $1135 in refunds
for alleged broadband fraud, March 2004.
- http://www.teletruth.org/PennBroadbandfraud.html
- FOIA With FCC To Obtain Chairman
Michael Powell’s Contacts During Triennial
Review’s Sunshine Period, December 2003
- http://www.newnetworks.com/FOIAprfin.html
- Letter to George Bush on Harm to
Small ISPs by FCC.
- http://www.newnetworks.com/FCCtoISPsDropDead.htm
- Letter, Senate Commerce, FCC
Violates Small Business laws, June 2003
- http://www.newnetworks.com/TeletruthPressReleaseMedia.htm
- Petition to FCC with Texas ISP
Asc. FCC Adopt Broadband Bill of Rights, 2003
- http://www.newnetworks.com/PRISPPETITIONS.html
- Broadband Bill of Rights Updated
Proposed Rule, May 2003
- http://www.newnetworks.com/PRISPPETITIONS.html
- 1 PUC and AG Complaint over
broadband deployment, Pennsylvania –Verizon,
2003
- http://www.newnetworks.com/prpenncomplaint.htm
- 1 Complaint to the FCC over the
Failed Broadband Deployments, 2003
- http://www.newnetworks.com/prpenncomplaint.htm
- 1 Analysis of FCC Triennial Review
decision, 2003
- http://www.newnetworks.com/idiotsdelight.htm
- Teletruth Files FOIA With FCC To
Obtain Chairman Michael Powell’s Contacts During
Triennial Review’s Sunshine Period.
- http://www.newnetworks.com/FOIAprfin.html
- 1 FCC Ex parte letter to FCC
criticizing Comm. Martin's proposed broadband
rules.
- http://www.newnetworks.com/SUMMARYofmartinexparte.htm
- 1 Comment on the FCC’s
Triennial Review to block competition, 2003
- http://www.newnetworks.com/triennialfin.htm
- 6 FCC Comments/Reply Comments over
Broadband. 2002
- http://www.newnetworks.com/teletruthrfacomments.html
- Analysis of Internet Broadband---
"Small Telecom Business Impact Study", 2002
- http://www.newnetworks.com/smallbusinessimpactstudy.html
- Proposed Congressional bill --
"The Broadband Bill of Rights". 2001-2002
- http://www.newnetworks.com/broadbandbill.htm
- The Two Broadbands: How New
York City Got Conned, Presentation to the New York City
Council on broadband issues, 2002.
- http://www.newnetworks.com/NYCspeechfin.htm
- The importance of the Internet
Provider to the Future of NYC’s Broadband,
2002
- http://www.teletruth.org/docs/PlotkinTestimonyNYCCouncil..pdf
- Complaint with the NY Commission
over Communications Workers of America (CWA) staff cuts
and construction cuts affecting phone/ broadband,
2002
- http://www.teletruth.org/docs/NYCCommentsaboutcwa.doc
- Ex Parte Letter over the Triennial
Review (with Pulver.com) 2003
- http://www.pulver.com/reports/signers.html
- 7 members participate in
Roundtable by Small Business Administration,
2002.
- http://www.teletruth.org/docs/Broadband_Roundtable_Ex_parte_letter.doc
- 750 Signers of the Broadband Bill
of Rights, 2001-2003
- http://www.newnetworks.com/alliance/signatures.php?view=1
- 50,000 customers filed FCC
Comments over broadband. (with Texas ISP
Assoc.)
- http://www.tispa.org/fcc/
Audit And Investigation
Issues:
- 2 Active IRS Complaints against
the Bell companies for tax evasion, 2006
- Overall Information About FCC
Audits
- http://www.teletruth.org/auditupdate.html
- Excerpts from the FCC Audits of
the Bell Cos. Showing Cooked Books, July, 2003.
- http://www.newnetworks.com/teletruth_audit_alert.htm
- Interview: Bell Whistle Blower
from New Jersey over FCC Audits Data and
Verizon
- http://www.teletruth.org/TeletruthAuditExclusive.html
- FOIA filed to Examine the FCC
Audit Books, July 2003
- http://www.newnetworks.com/FOIAforaudit.html
- 3 PUC and AG Complaints to
Investigate "Vaporware" FCC Audits, New York, New Jersey,
Massachusetts, 2002
- http://www.teletruth.org/audit.html
- 3 IRS Complaints are active over
FCC audits, 2001-2003
- 2 SEC Complaint s over FCC audits,
2002.
- http://www.teletruth.org/docs/teletruthsecletter.pdf
- 1 Comments on the FCC’s
Biennial Review to block record Shredding,
2002
- http://www.newnetworks.com/fccpapershredding.htm
Bell Company Merger
Conditions
Research, Analysis and Data
issues.
Articles and
Analysis
- Harvard Nieman Watchdog series on
broadband and telecommunications issues.
- http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=about.viewContributor&bioid=130
- Splat: The FCC Kills the Telecom
Act. Humpty Dumpty Put Back Together Again and Screws 17
Million People --- Are You One of Them?
- http://www.newnetworks.com/splat.htm
- Get ready to be nickeled, dimed
and quartered again! New Proposed Taxes, Surcharges on
Phone Bills and Broadband, August, 2004
- http://www.newnetworks.com/TeletruthICFreleaase.htm
- Universal Broadband Access by
Verizon? Waiting for Godot is More Useful
http://www.newnetworks.com/universalbroadbandaccessbyverizon.htm
- Nightmare on "F" Street. --- DC
Circuit Disses Deregulation, 2004
- http://www.newnetworks.com/NightmareonFStreet.htm
- Verizonlies.com ---Facts Disprove
Group’s Baseless Claims against Verizon,
2004
- http://www.verizonlies.com/
- The Telecom Riot Act of 2004 ---
29 Reasons To Not Celebrate The 20th Anniversary Of The
Baby Bells
- http://www.newnetworks.com/TelecomRiotActof2004.htm
- Portability: You Still Can't
Take Your Phone Number When You Move, Dec.
2003
- http://www.newnetworks.com/port.html
- Is The Sky Falling For The Bells?
Nah, It's Just “Dirty Math", published TMCNet,
2003
- http://www.tmcnet.com/tmcnet/articles/2003/120503nn.htm
- The Underbelly of the Proposed
Verizon Strike: Why Customers Should Care.
- http://www.newnetworks.com/UnderbellyVerizonStrike.htm
- Idiots Delight on the Animal Farm,
2003.
- http://www.newnetworks.com/idiotsdelight.htm
- The Bells Caused the Current
Recession: The Fiber Optic Fiasco and Americas' Dirt
Road, August, 2001
- http://www.newnetworks.com/pressrecession.htm
- The Bells' Greatest Broadband
Failures: A Compendium of Bell Quotes,
1992-2003
- http://www.newnetworks.com/bellbroadbandfailures.html
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