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Telecom Publications

2022

  • AT&T Fumbles: the Tryanny of Big Telecom, CounterPunch, March 30, 2022.
  • Dude, Where’s My High-Speed Internet?, The Progressive, March 4, 2022.
  • Digital Redlining or Digital Divides, CounterPunch, March 3, 2022.
  • Net Neutrality Still Matters, CounterPunch, February 10, 2022.

2021

  • The Broadband Plan Will Not End the Digital Divide, CountePunch, November 11, 2021.
  • America’s Broadband Crisis: Making of a 21st Century Cartel, Monthly Review, September 23, 2021.
  • Cities Struggle to End the Urban Digital Divide, The Progressive, September 16, 2021.
  • Getting Connected, The Progressive, August-September 2021.
  • Why Community Broadband Matters, CounterPunch, August 5, 2021.
  • What’s Happening to the Telecom Trust, CounterPunch, May 25, 2021.
  • AT&T’s “Harvesting” Scam, CounterPunch, May 6, 2021.
  • An End to Broadband Inequality—or Just More of the Same?,
    The Progressive, April 3, 2021
  • Electricity vs. Broadband: Does History Repeat Itself?, CounterPunch, March 4, 2021.
  • Confronting the Digital Divide: New York City vs. Verizon, CounterPunch, February 24, 2021.
  • Taking on Telecom’s ‘5G’, CounterPunch, February 3, 2021,

2020

  • The Great 5G Hype, CounterPunch, March 20, 2020.
  •  Irregulators v FCC: The Trial Begins, CounterPunch, January 17, 2020.

2019

  • Taking on the FCC: Unraveling a $500 Billion Rip-Off, CounterPunch, June 7, 2019.

2016

  • Verizon Strike Exposes Broader Shifts in Telecom Labor Conditions, TruthOut, May 13, 2016.

2014

  • Save Net Neutrality: Make the Internet a Common Carrier, CounterPunch, April 25-27, 2014. 
  • Media Consolidation Intensifies: Can the Comcast and Time/Warner Cable Merger be Stopped?, CounterPunch, February 13, 2014.
  • The School Broadband Scam: Kids Suffer as Telecoms Profits Soar, CounterPunch, February 7-9, 2014.
  • Privatizing the Public Good:  Is This the End of Net Neutrality?  CounterPunch, January 15, 2014.

2013

  • Will 2014 Be the Year That Smartphone Filmmaking Goes Mainstream?, IndieWire, January 29, 2013. 
  • Obama Disses Digital Promise to U.S. Kids: Broadband to the Classroom, CounterPunch, August 9-11, 2013.
  • The Great Sandy Shell Game: American Telecom Users Will Be the Real Losers.  CounterPunch, July 18, 2013.
  • Regulatory Capture at the FCC:  Corporate Corruption and The Special Interest State,  CounterPunch, May 24-26, 2013.
  • Another Internet is Possible: Some Questions for the New FCC Chairperson,  CounterPunch, April 5-7, 2013.
  • Opium of the 21st Century:  The Telecom Crisis. CounterPunch, January 25-27, 2013. Content is the opium of the 21st century telecom user.

2012

  • How Telecoms Sell Your Private Info to the Highest Bidder, AlterNet, November 8, 2012.
  • Why Our Phones and Internet Are Being Threatened by a Big Telecomm Privatization Scheme, with Bruce Kushnik. AlterNet, July 26, 2012.
  • ALEC, Tech and the Telecom Wars: Killing America’s Telecom Utilities, with Bruce Kushnick.  Huffington Post, July 24, 2012.
  • What Secrets Is Your Cell Phone Company Telling the Government About You?, AlterNet, July 11, 2012.
  • Obama’s Broadband Vision vs. the Communications Trust, with Bruce Kushnick. Huffington Post, June 25, 2012.
  • America’s Spy State: How the Telecoms Sell Out Your Privacy, AlterNet, May 29, 2012
  • The Telecom Scammers’ Latest Ploy to Screw You for More Cash,  AlterNet, March 21, 2012.
  • Telecom Rip-Off: The Hidden Fees in Your Wireless and Phone Bills, with Bruce Kushnick.  AlterNet, January 16, 2012.

2011

  • Occupy Telecom, Occupy the FCC: How the Communications Trust is Harming America’s Futures, AlterNet, November 18, 2011.
  • The Smart Phone Con Job: Your So-Called 4G Phone Isn’t What It’s Cracked Up To Be AlterNet, June 30, 2011.
  • Shills R Us: Organizations That Get AT&T Cash Endorse its Mega-Merger with T-Mobile, AlterNet, June 22, 2011.
  • The Secret $8 Billion Wireless Scam: How AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Game the System, AlterNet, June 20, 2011.
  • AT&T and T-Mobile Edge Closer to Merger, What’s In It For Customers? Very Little, AlterNet, June 9, 2011.
  • It’s Time to Break Up AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner and the Rest of the Telecoms, AlterNet, May 11, 2011.
  • “TV wars:  How the telecommunications trust is shaping the future of the Internet … and indie film”, Filmmaker, Spring 2011.

2010

  • Network Faiure: The Crisis in America’s Telecommunications Network (with Bruce Kushnick), CounterPunch, March 12-14, 2010.
  • The Comcast-NBC Merger & the Future of Internet Video, Z magazine, February 26, 2010.
  • The Outrageous Ways Your Phone Company May Be Stealing from You, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, February 9, 2011.
  • How AT&T, Verizon and the Telecom Giants Have Captured the Regulator Supposed to Control Them, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, January 8, 2011.

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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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