Jerry Michalski, Sociate.com

"It would be one thing if the phone companies had made overly optimistic promises of a fiber-optic future, then broken them. It's quite another to have breached contracts, lied to gain financial incentives and destroyed competition [you might suggest a better three things] in order to protect an industry whose core business is becoming a commodity: moving bits. Bruce Kushnick shows all this, as well as the effects: the U.S. is rapidly moving toward third-world levels of connectivity and our connected future is in jeopardy. Anyone who wants the U.S. to thrive in this connected future should read Kushnick's book."

Dana Blankenhorn, Editor: voic.us VOIC.US

"Bruce Kushnick has made his career following the money in telecom in the public interest rather than in any private interest. He is talented, persistent, honest, and a great hero to me. Read this and he'll be a hero to you, too.

Karl Bode, Broadband Reports

"The incumbent phone companies have been waging a propaganda war on the American public, using a myriad of front organizations that pretend to represent the consumer's best interests, but are instead paid mouthpieces for the "baby" bells. Kushnick is one of the only industry pundits seemingly bothered by the fact that honest discourse on telecom and broadband policy has been hijacked by propagandists, astroturfers, and public relation magicians, who control both sides of the "debate". Meanwhile, real consumer advocates remain marginalized and ignored by a public and media that can no longer afford to do so."

Dave Burstein, Editor, DSL Prime

"The Bells hate Bruce Kushnick for a very good reason. He finds facts they want to keep hidden. That's the same reason conscientious public officials and some of the best reporters read Kushnick. With five hundred million dollars of lobbying obscuring the truth, every honest seeker is crucial."

Joe Plotkin, Bway.net, Board Member, NYC Wireless

"Kushnick is in a long tradition of advocates like Ida Tarbell and Jane Jacobs, who selflessly toil in obscurity, driven by a single-minded pursuit of justice, until the world catches up to their warnings. Then they change the world."

David Hughes, Old Colorado City Communications

"Bruce Kushnick has brilliantly documented this fraud, and why we are now 16^th in the world and sinking in the availability of broadband to our citizens. Uijongbu, Korea is more connected today to the Internet at higher speeds, at lower cost, than my own neighborhood in purportedly modern Colorado Springs."

Gordon Cook, The Cook Report

"Living in an age where corporate and national political scandals run amuck, when we are bombarded by new accusations, it becomes hard to pay attention. Especially so when the scandals are systemic and go on-and-on for 10, and even 20 years. And when they involve the Federal agency that is supposed to protect the public from abuse. Not to mention the state agencies as well."

"Fortunately, Bruce kept on digging and writing and building the fortress of his indictment of the telcos – brick by brick by brick. The result] is both mind numbing in its detail and stunning in its implications. Bruce has assembled thousands of pieces of data since the mid 1980s to show how the baby bells put themselves first year after year after year and effectively cut short the ability of the United States to have the modern IP and Internet based digital communications necessary for its citizens to compete economically in a globalized world."

Cover Story, Washington Technology, September 15^th, 1994

"If telecommunications analyst Bruce Kushnick is talking the truth (and we think he is), systems integrators, content providers, Internet service providers and just about anyone involved with building the forthcoming National Information Infrastructure had better read his report word by word."

Dave Burstein DSL Prime , [September 10, 2003]

Bruce Kushnick's a player in D.C.10 pages of the Triennial

"America's most vehement critic of the Bells, Bruce Kushnick, had a major impact on the FCC decision, reflected in the intensity of analysis he provoked. Bruce, with support from SBA and others, had filed that the Triennial was not considering the effect on small business, especially ISPs and data CLECs. He's absolutely right, the FCC comments in rebuttal miss the point, and he's got a strong case on the law if he brings it."