New Networks Institute Reports and Filings, 2001 "The Bells Caused The Current Financial Recession: The Fiber-Optic Fiasco And America's Copper Dirt Road" 8/02/01 "The Bell companies have successfully defended their aging copper wire phone networks and destroyed any hope of competition or a fiber-optic future. Unless the problems of telecommunications are fixed, the recession won't end anytime soon." To Read the Report, To Read the Press Release, A Copy of the Report in Word "The Bells Harmed The CLEC Industry: Bell Funded Study By Brooking’s Crandall On CLECs Is Flawed." 8/02/01 This "Special Report" supplies evidence that the Bell companies' anti-competitive behavior and lack of enforcement has been the major impediment for competitors to offer local phone and DSL/Broadband services, not the Competitive Local Exchange Companies' (CLECs) business plans as some would suggest. To Read the Report, To Read the Press Release, A Copy of the Report in Word NNI Files Complaint With FCC Over "Subscriber Line Charge" Increase Do Not Raise Customer Phone Rates July 1st, 2001, Nni Asks Fcc --- Stop The Phonebill Shell Game.NNI Recommends Dropping The Entire "Subscriber Line Charge" From Phone Bills Because The Local Bell Companies' Profits Are Excessive And Voilate "Fair And Reasonable" Statutes Bell Monopoly Profits Are Outrageous: America's Phone Customers Are Being Overcharged By Their Local Bell Companies About $200 Per Household In 2000. 6/12/01 Press Release, Report as a "WORD" File The Findings: Bell Profits are 200+% above most American Companies. Bell Profits Violate Every State and Federal "Fair and Reasonable" Statute.NNI Estimates that EVERY Household is owed about $200 ---About $17 Billion for 2000.An extra $50 Billion should be investigated for the Bell's Failed Broadband Rollouts 8 Reasons TAUZIN-DINGELL Is Bad for You. Recuse Billy Tauzin from Regulating Telecommunications Press Release and Summary SUMMARY During the week of April 23rd, 2001, Congressman Billy Tauzin, (R-LA) and Congressmen John Dingell (D-MI) reintroduced legislation titled "Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act." This bill is designed to help the Bell companies (BellSouth, Verizon, SBC, and Qwest)  It will effectively close out competition and it will raise the prices to customers. It will deliver to America an inferior product, ADSL, and it will have killed an entire generation of new technology and economic growth. Also, we are reccommending that Rep. Billy Tauzin be recused from regulating telecommunications because of numerous conflicts of interest he has with the Bells, and BellSouth specifically. Is Verizon Charging New Yorkers For "VAPORWARE" Costing $2.5 Billion?-- Filed 3/21/01 NNI filed a series of complaints with the NY State Attorney General's Office and the NY Public Service Commission requesting that these regulators audit the Bell Companies for "vaporware" -- billions of dollars of phone company equipment that is either missing or was never purchased. These filings are directly based on FCC audit data. REPORT: Verizon Harms Phone Customers, Competitors, New York State Economic Growth and it's Own Staffers 3/21/01 NNI Files with NY State and Federal Officials to Investigate Communications Workers of America' (CWA) Report Findings. The report's claims against Verizon include the falsification of company service quality data, inaccurate information, possible consumer fraud for inside wire maintenance plans, deterioration of the current phone networks, lack of experienced management, lack of proper training, and harm to company whistleblowers trying to call attention to the problems. The Broadband Bill Of Rights, 3/16/01 Have you become a co-signer? Read Co-Signer Comments Be a Co-Signer  NNI has created a new piece of proposed legislation designed to help alleviate the problems customers and competitors are having with getting and using broadband services, mainly caused by the Bell's sub-standard customer services To Read Reports and Filings 1999-2000