David Rosen Writes

on sex, politics & American life

  • Home
  • Publications
    • Publications – 2021
    • Publications – 2020-2016
    • Publications – 2015-2011
    • Publications — 2010-2006
    • Publications – 1996-1986
  • About Me
  • Books
    • Sin, Sex & Subversion
    • Sex Scandal America
    • Off-Hollywood
    • Other
  • Studies
  • Sex Matters
  • Telecom
  • Reviews`
  • Appearances
  • Contact

Telecom Publications

2023

  • The Cartel Economy and the Telecom Cartel, CounterPunch, January 5, 2023

2022

  • NYC Digital Redlining: A Tale of Woe, CounterPunch, December 7, 2022.
  • Secrets of an AT&T Scandal, CounterPunch, November 11, 2022.
  • One Year Later, Biden’s FCC Nominee Remains In Limbo, The Progressive, November 1, 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.

Recent Articles

The New “Last Ditchers”

“Last Ditcher” is a 19th century concept that needs to be recalled these days.  Its ethos is embodied in political/culture campaigns being waged by today’s radical right.  Read more. … [Read More...]

Lessons from Majid Khan’s Release from Guantánamo

On February 2, U.S. prisoner and former al Qaeda courier Majid Khan was released from the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp in Cuba after more than sixteen years of imprisonment.  Read more. … [Read More...]

Biden’s Missing Word: Inequality

On February 2nd, Pres. Joe Biden delivered his annual State of the Union address and the missing word was "inequality." 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.

Copyright © 2023 · Site Developed and Hosted by Dallura Web Design