Telecommunications Policy

• Obama Disses Digital Promise to U.S. Kids: Broadband to the Classroom. CounterPunch, July 18, 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.

• AT&T Wants New Digital Dead Zones, with Bruce Kushnick.  Huffington Post, March 7, 2913.

• Opium of the 21st Century:  The Telecom Crisis. CounterPunch, January 25-27, 2013.

• Looking Beyond Hurricane Sandy:  America’s Failing Telecom Infrastructure,  CounterPunch, November 15, 2012.

• How Telecoms Sell Your Private Info to the Highest Bidder, AlterNet, November 8, 2011.

• Why Our Phone and Internet Are Being Threatened by a Big Telecom Privatization Scheme, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, July 26, 2011.

• ALEC, Tech & the Telecom Wars:  Killing America’s Telecom Utilities, with Bruce Kushnick, Huffington Post, July 24, 2011.

• Obama’s Broadband Plan vs. the Telecommunications Trust, with Bruce Kushnick, Huffington Post, June 25, 2012.

• Occupy Telecom, Occupy the FCC:  How the Communications Trust is Harming America’s Future, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, November 18, 2011.

• The Telecom Scam:  5 Behemoths That Strangle Innovation and Ensure Your Pay Too Much for Bad Service, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, November 11, 2011.

• The Smart Phone Con Job:  Your So-Called 4G Phone Isn’t What Its Cracked Up to Be, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, June 30, 2011.

• Shills R Us:  Organizations That Get AT&T Cash Endorse its Mega-Merger with T-Mobile, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, June 22, 2011.

• The Secret $8 Billion Scam:  How AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Game the System, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, June 20, 2011.

• AT&T and T-Mobile Edge Closer to Merger, What’s In It For Customers?  Very Little, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, June 9, 2011.

• Its Time to Break UP AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, TimeWarner and the Rest of the Telecoms, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, May 11, 2011.

• How Politicians Are Using 911 Emergency Services to Scam Millions of Consumers, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, March 5, 2011.

• 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.

• How Comcast and Huge Telecom Players’ Latest Gambit Could Destroy the Internet as We Know It, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, December 22, 2010.

• Phone Companies’ $100 Billion Rip-off — Where Is That Hidden $6 a Month Going in Our Phone Bills?, with Bruce Kushnick, Alternet, , December 11, 2010.

• Cable Companies’ $46+ Billion Robbery — Subscribers Have Been Ripped off for $5 a Month Since 2000, with Bruce Kushnick, Alternet, November 9, 2010.

• How the Phone Companies Are Screwing America: The $320 Billion Broadband Rip-Off, with Bruce Kushnick, Alternet, October 7, 2010.

• Cheap Date: Buying Minority Support for the Comcast-NBC Universal Merger, CounterPunch, September 24 – 26, 2010, with Bruce Kushnick.

• The Great Telecom Rip-Off:  Why Aunt Ethel Hung Up on AT&T, CounterPunch, May 28 – 30, 2010,.

• Network Failure: 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, March 2010.

• The Great Broadband Scam:  Why the Recovery Plan will Fail to Meet America’s Broadband Needs, MediaChannel, February 25, 2009.

• What now for broadband and the telecoms?, with Bruce Kushniick, Harvard-Neiman Watchdog, November 17, 2008.

• The Next Telecom War:  Moving from Net neutrality to infrastructure common carriage. Filmmaker Magazine, Summer 2008.