25^th Anniversary Bibliography –

Reports, Ebooks, FCC and State Filings, Articles

 

Starting in 1992, New Networks Institute created the largest, in depth examination of the first decade of the Bell companies titled “10 Years Since Divestiture, the Future of the Information Age”. Reports, databases and survey results were published with Probe Research, Fairfield Research and Phillips Business Information.

http://www.newnetworks.com/biblio.html

 

FREE DOWNLOAD EBOOK:  In 1999, New Networks published “The Unauthorized Bio of the Baby Bells”. Originally a paperback, this ebook summarized the information and updated the work and is available as a free download. Foreword by Dr. Bob Metcalfe. 508 pages, 664 footnotes

http://www.newnetworks.com/downloadbook.html

 

Materials Available for Specific Sections:  (See ebook for 1980-1999.)

 

Who Are the Bell Companies – Now AT&T, Verizon and Qwest.

• http://www.teletruth.org//History/history.html

Revenues, Expenditures and Profits

• Regional Bell Operating Company (RBOC) Revenues, Expenditures and Profits:(2000-Second Quarter 2002); The Bell Companies are Misleading Congress, the FCC, and the Public with a Shell Game of Statistics. 
• http://www.newnetworks.com/profitreport2002.htm  

Executive Compensation

• “Regional Bell (RBOC) Senior Management Compensation:  A Primer in Corporate Greed, (1999- 2002)
• http://www.teletruth.org/docs/compensationFIN.pdf 

Foreign Investment and Losses.

• Bell Write offs and Foreign Investment Losses, 2002
• http://www.teletruth.org/docs/ForeignBellinvest.doc

Competition

• Internet Service Provider Harms, 2008
• http://www.newnetworks.com/parttwosummary.htm
• Petition to the FCC over Internet Provider harms, 2004
• http://www.newnetworks.com/PRISPPETITIONS.html
• Local phone competition, 2008
• http://www.newnetworks.com/partonefcccompetition.htm  

Broadband Commitments vs Reality

• $200 Billion Broadband Scandal”, 2005. This book outlines the Bells’ failed broadband  deployments. http://www.newnetworks.com/broadbandscandals.htm
• Broadband Scandal by State and Overview, 2009
• http://www.teletruth.org/fiberopticstates.htm

Access and Other Lines

• AT&T and Verizon Are Manipulating "Access Line" Losses. U-verse and FiOS are NOT included as "access" lines. 2009
• http://www.newnetworks.com/Accesslines.htm  

Phone Service

• Teletruth-UCAN Phone Bill Survey of San Diego CA Phone, Broadband, Internet and Cable Services, 2009
• http://www.teletruth.org/docs/UCANteletruth.pdf
• Phone Bill Independence Report, 2003. This is based on surveys of New Jersey and New York residents collecting actual phone bills.
• http://www.teletruth.org/phonebillindependencereport.html
• Previous work by Teletruth on phone bills and legal actions.
• http://www.newnetworks.com/phonebillissues.htm  

Wireless Spectrum: AT&T and Verizon “Very Small Businesses”?

• Verizon, AT&T, Cingular (SBC, AT&T and BellSouth), T-Mobile, Sprint are small businesses? 
• http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Ask_this.view&askthisid=210
• To read the complaint
• http://www.teletruth.org/docs/wirelesscomplaintfin.pdf 

Missing Equipment “Vaporware” Added to Phone Rates.

• Teletruth members have been filing complaints with the SEC, various states, the IRS and the FCC
• http://www.teletruth.org/auditupdate.html

Corporate Influence Over the Infrastructure

• We have written extensively about this issue.
• http://www.newnetworks.com/astroturfstink.htm
• Complaint over the members of the FCC’s Consumer Advisory Committee. 
• http://www.newnetworks.com/CACletterfinal20205.htm  

FCC Data on Broadband, Phone Bills, etc.

• The FCC is using boilerplate data that comes from 1992, 1993, and 1994, etc to describe current markets. http://www.teletruth.org/forbearance.htm
• FCC’s data on phone bills shows that the average one minute long distance call was $.06 in 2007. However, AT&T’s ‘basic’ rate cost $.42 a minute, and the FCC has covered up the data on customers.
• http://www.newnetworks.com/dataqualityharvest.htm
• Collection of FCC related data quality filings starting 1994
• http://www.newnetworks.com/Teletruthdataqualityfilings.htm

Merger Failures.

• Teletruth wrote a letter to Judge Sullivan outlining the problems with the AT&T-BellSouth merger
• http://www.newnetworks.com/lettertosullivan.htm
• In 2005, Teletruth filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over the SBC-AT&T and Verizon-MCI mergers, including a report on these mergers impacts.
• http://www.newnetworks.com/FTCcomplaintSBCVerizon.htm
• In 2002, Teletruth wrote a letter for a Congressional Investigation of the failure of SBC and Verizon to complete their merger conditions to compete outside their own territories.
• http://www.teletruth.org/TakeAction/Breakupsbcameritech/liarliar.htm