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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

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
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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Recent Articles

Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr. Alex Comfort, author of The Joy of Sex by Eric Laursen. 

Have you read The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort? Since its publication, the book has sold 12 million copies in various editions and its sequel, The New Joy of Sex (1991), some 1.5 million more. Read … [Read More...]

“5G,” ALEC and the U.S.’s Second-Rate Telecom System.

Do you have a “5G” service? It’s ceaselessly promoted as the mobile phone standard. Americans are being told that the present is 5G and the future is 6G. Read more. … [Read More...]

Breaking Down the AI Frenzy

Over the last couple of decades, artificial intelligence has aggressively spread into many sectors of business, as well as police and military operations. Read more. … [Read More...]


DAVID ROSEN is a widely published author whose books include
Sex, Sin & Subversion: The Transformation of 1950s New York’s Forbidden into America’s New Normal (2016); Sex Scandal America: Politics & the Ritual of Public Shaming (2009); Off-Hollywood: The Making & Marketing of Independent Films (1991), originally commissioned by the Sundance Institute and the Independent Feature Project. He is author of many scholarly articles, book reviews and popular pieces on media-tech, telecom, politics, sex and American life.

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