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$200 Billion Broadband Scandal is NOW a free download for
ONE WEEK ONLY starting TUESDAY, June 20th. 2006

http://www.teletruth.org/docs/BROADBANDSCANDAL.pdf

Senate Should Stop and Investigate Verizon, AT&T, BellSouth and Qwest’s Broadband and Internet Control and Deployments. – FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL.

Last week the House of Representatives caved in and gave the phone companies new financial concessions, and took away more of your rights for an open, competitive, broadband and Internet. This includes eliminating/ignoring Net Neutrality.
And this Thursday, the Senate is about to do the same bad vote.

Why should there be an investigation? You paid for fiber optic networks you never received and it cost you thousands of dollars – and now Congress wants to give them more concessions and more of your money. Worse, America is 16th in the world in broadband because these companies didn’t deliver – and may never deliver.

The Proof? “$200 Billion Broadband Scandal” and this week the ebook is yours, free ---over 400 pages, 526 footnotes of documentation

Write the Senate. Send them a free copy of the ebook with your compliments. Tell your friends. Get 10 involved.

ASK THESE QUESTIONS:
1) FACT: Customers paid the phone companies billions of dollars per state in 'extra fees" for open, ubiquitous, fiber optic, 45 mbps, high-definition video, 500+ channel service (in both directions) that you never received. --- About $2000 per household --- Where's all the money? What happened to the networks? Am I owed money?

Should we trust these companies to do anything different now?

2) Verizon's FiOS, and SBC's Lightspeed are inferior, crippled services that can't compete globally today and may never be fully deployed. America is 16th in broadband now, and it will get worse with the Bell companies' plans.
Compare the speed and price of FiOS and DSL with Asia. http://www.newnetworks.com/fiosvsasia.htm

Do we really want these companies in control of our Digital Future? Is it really $40 bucks for 100 Mbps in Asia?

3) Customers continue to be charged a de facto "Broadband Tax" for FiOS and Lightspeed. Why am I paying this hidden tax for something I may never get or want!

4) FCC—Bad Data Harmed the Economy. The book shows that hundreds of documents were omitted by the FCC in their broadband analysis. Didn’t the GAO find flaws in the FCC’s broadband data? How much worse are the real facts?

5) They want to charge Google and others more money for the same service and block where I can go? If we paid extra fees for open competitive networks, what right do they have to charge more or block services?

Solution: The Senate should conduct hearings about these issues before it votes on any new financial concessions - Follow the Money and compare the US to the rest of the world.

Free Download page: (more about the issues, Teletruth.
http://www.newnetworks.com/scandals.htm

Summary: Harvard's Nieman Watchdog Project, "Where's that broadband fiber-optic
access?", http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Ask_this.view&askthisid=186

Two page synopsis http://www.newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.htm

Teletruth is an independent, nationwide customer alliance and was a member of the FCC Consumer Advisory Committee, 2003-2004.