In the U.S., every need can
be turned into a scam – and none worse than the telecom industry.
Postmodern America is a telecom-enabled nation. In the U.S., there are more telecom customers — 518 million subscribers to wireless, wireline and cable services – than there are people.
Diss-Connected is a companion book to Violations & Egregious Acts: Trillion Dollar Broadband Scandal by telecom analyst Bruce Kushnick.
These books analyze the grift, the overcharging, and the diversion of funds that the telecom companies have perpetrated on the American public for decades.
Key Issues Addressed
- By the end of 2021, we estimate that $1.3 trillion was overcharged to local service customers, now at $70-90 billion annually.
- Pricing scams: Billing charges are based on “made up” fees like “ramming,” “cramming,” “slamming, harvesting,” “package stuffing” and more.
- Merger After Merger: The Big Telecom cartel – AT&T, Verizon and CenturyLink – was created by mergers that were supposed to bring competition for broadband services, lower prices and provide choice — they didn’t!
- Telecom deregulation created the digital divide – and government agencies have no clue how to fix it.
- Wireless services are second rate to fiber, provide more profits to the telecoms and won’t solve the digital divide.
- Americans pay much more than other 1st-world countries for the similar services.
- For decades, the telecoms have manipulated their accounting procedures to maximized profit and diverted billions from state wired public utilities to wireless services.
- Lobbyists, trade associations and others (e.g., ALEC) influence telecom public policy and regulation.
These books were commissioned by a group of philanthropists and are published by New Networks; they are available on Amazon.com. Diss-Connected and Violations & Egregious Acts
The Bookshelf
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| Prohibition: A dazzling tour through Gotham’s territories of transgression in the 1920s. … Welcome to the party, and please enjoy responsibly!” Available from Arcadia Publishing or Amazon | Sin, Sex and Subversion: How What Was Taboo in 1950s New York Became America’s New Normal. Available from Amazon | Sex Scandal America: The Politics & The Ritual of Public Shaming. Available from Key Publishing or Amazon |
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| Off-Hollywood: The Making & Marketing of Independent Films. Available from Amazon | Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion. Available from AK Press or Amazon |
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