45,000 downloads! (week of 6/20/06) $200 Billion Broadband Scandal  (CLICK TO ENLARGE) *The Questions that Need Asking NOW. Follow the Money: Read the Book. Then Write the Senate and Spread the Word BEFORE THURSDAY, June 22, 2006 --- Investigate AT&T, Verizon, BellSouth and Qwest. Time for some action and we're putting our data where our mouth is. --- The Senate has a new bill which will have terrible consequences and it needs to be stopped. Why?  Customers paid AT&T, Verizon and the other Bells billions of dollars per state for open, fiber optic, 45 Mbps, high-definition video services they never received. --- About $2000 per household --- Where's all the money? What happened to the networks? Should that check be made out to you? America is 16th in broadband because the phone companies didn't deliver -- and now they want MORE? FOLLOW THE MONEY! The Story Verizon, SBC, AT&T, BellSouth and Qwest Don't Want You Read! To Buy the Book ------------------------------------- Help the Cause.---Help Us Tell This Story! -------------------------------------- SEND YOUR SENATORS .AN  EBOOK: REQUEST  AN INVESTIGATION ======================= !Click to Get Updates! ======================= PHONE BILL ISSUES  GET WORSE WITH  STEVENS BILL ============ More eBooks From Teletruth . If you thought that broadband was a problem, every charge on your bill should be investigated. Dirty Little Secret Lives of Phone Bills A fact-based novel on the scandal behind every charge on your bill. (click to enlarge) Phone Bill Independence: Autopsy of Verizon Phone Bills and Overcharging About the Book: Two Page Synopsis --- Are you owed $2000 for a service you may never get? Praise: the Experts and Pundits, Read More:  New York Times, Muniwireless, Good Morning Silicon Alley, Techdirt, Media Access, Press Release, Table of Contents About the Author, Introduction and Summary - Forget Net Neutrality. It's made up to charge customers and companies more. --- Read our Guest Column for Pulver.com Net Neutrality is Hogwash New franchises? Verizon's FiOS and AT&T's Lightspeed are inferior services. We're 16th in broadband because they companies conned the American Public and never delivered. Asia has 100 Mbps services for $40 bucks... and we have?  "FiOS and Lightspeed: The Rise of America's Crippled Networks. Bruce Kushnick's Harvard Nieman Watchdog articles: "Where's that broadband fiber-optic access?" The infrastructure equation | Telecoms, cable and the ‘Net neutrality’ fight Telecommunications | How the Baby Bells and the government destroyed competition for DSL, long distance and local phone service  ================================================  Status of the Stevens Bill: Markup: Thursday, June 22nd. 2006 STEVEN's BILL Doesn't Fix The Universal Slush Fund or the FCC Line Charge Slush Fund ================================================ Others on Our Side: Save the Internet Free Press.net It's Our Net Their Side: Read the Chapter "Fake Consumer Groups, Biased Research... in 'Broadband Scandal' : Groups funded by the phone companies who should not be trusted: Check out our astroturf analysis, summarized in the book  Issue Dynamics, New Millennium, APT and others. Progress and Freedom Foundation Consumers for Cable Choice Mike McCurry - Hands off the Internet