For the past year I had some hope that the election of BHO would truly make a difference. That hope is gone. BHO is business as usual not change one can believe in.
When I read Art Brodsky’s December 14th piece on Connected Nation in Colorado yesterday I was outraged. But then this […]
Verizon is allowed to run itself like an Atlantic city casino where the house odds are reward the investor at the same time you give the CEOs and division presidents princely salaries while you with drawn from local tax obligations, sell off rural lines to a gullible Fairpoint in such a way as to send […]
FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers
On April 7th wired wrote “The FBI on Tuesday defended its raids on at least two data centers in Texas, in which agents carted out equipment and disrupted service to hundreds of businesses.
The raids were part of an investigation prompted by complaints from AT&T and Verizon about unpaid […]
I am not yet allowed to to put all our cards on the table but it seems more likely to happen. And when it does it will be more disgusting proof of what Art Brodsky has been documenting with his continuing commentary of mapping that shows Larry Strickling unable to stand up for the […]
Here is the Executive Summary of my just published June interview.
Our feature interview describes a multi year long streak of questionable practices by Verizon in New Jersey. We see the situation as a symbiotic relationship between politicians in state government who are happy to let Verizon continue to act as an unregulated free market […]
Editor’s note:
Thanks to Paul Budde for this essay.
Paul called it “Australian case study” I have changed the emphasis slightly because i intend to follow it tomorrow with a piece on the emerging private market for IPv4 addresses, and the following day with a piece on RFC 1744. I fully agree with Pau’ls main […]
A Ms. Delgado calls - from Seidenbergs NY office team - she’s
customer relations but in a different physical office. New Jersey has a similar office. A friend has submitted my case there. He reads me an email of the bureaucratic reply. Laughable.
I am calling to tell you that your son’s […]
How frustrating when Verizon, the gold standard of American incumbents has in FiOS Internet an excellent product but then driven by the greed of the bean counters, takes a devil may care attitude to sell at any cost this much is possible because the only thing that matters is that quarterly bottom line […]
I have a hypothesis: The Bush administration came to power in December 2000. American telcos were on the precipice about to go into Free fall. We have seen how Bush politicized the Justice Department and are much more aware thanks to John Dean’s Broken Government and Charlie Savage’s Take Over of the […]
David has been spreading his Smart Letter 100 around the net. Net Neutrality. Oh GOD that again. I didn’t read it. I am afterall I know the arguments. I had just put Jim Crowe’s (Levl 3 CEO) take on my list… Good because he says use antitrust and the […]