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Note; You can download the complete ACLU Complaint at < http://efile.mpsc.cis.state.mi.us/efile/docs/14985/0001.pdf

from: Detroit news

ACLU battles AT&T, Verizon

Gregg Krupa / The Detroit News

from: Technology Daily

Federal Judge Takes Hard Look At Telecom Mega-Mergers

By Drew Clark

(Monday, July 10) The long shadow of the Justice Department's prosecution of Microsoft could ensnare AT&T's efforts to acquire another Bell firm -- BellSouth -- as a federal judge late last week sought to aggressively investigate last year's telecommunications mega-mergers.

from: Multichannel News

Making Book on the Bells’ Promises
By Kent Gibbons, Executive Editor 7/10/2006

In a bid to influence the Telecom Act rewrites underway in Congress, author Bruce Kushnick made his latest “e-book” available to be downloaded for free the week of June 20.

From: NY Times

June 30, 2006
USA Today Backs Off Report on Phone Records

By MATT RICHTEL
In a note to readers today, USA Today backed off an earlier assertion that BellSouth and Verizon had contracted to provide telephone calling records to the National Security Agency.

The note referred to an article published May 11 that said those two companies and AT&T had provided calling records to the security agency, without warrants, for a database it was compiling to detect terrorist activity.

$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.

from: Center for Digital Democracy

Washington Watch

AT&T/Bell South to Public: We Don’t Have to Pay Attention to the Public Interest, Just the Corporate Bottom Line

7 June 2006

The required "Public Interest Statement" that AT&T and Bell South filed with the FCC 31 March 2006 in conjunction with their proposed merger was notable more for what it didn't say than for what it did. While the 133-page statement was replete with references to the "enhanced efficiency" and "substantial cost savings" that the new Behemoth Bell will bring to the marketplace, conspicuously absent was any mention of how the public will benefit from the proposed union.

Telco TV boxes may be coming to a sidewalk near you - and there is likely nothing you will be able to do about it! The loss of local control of 'right of way' under new state video franchising laws means that your local city will have to yield control of public spaces to telephone and cable companies operating under those franchises.

The deadline for filing public comments with the FCC about the AT&T-BellSouth merger is today (June 5th). Please take a moment to send a letter via the Free Press web site! This 69 Billion dollar merger will make AT&T the largest telephone company in the world.

Note: The deadline for filing FCC Comments is today (June 5th). Please take a moment to send a letter via the Free Press web site!

from:Broadcasting and Cable

AT&T/BellSouth Opponent Weigh In

AT&T certainly put a new spin on their slogan "Your World. Delivered" with the recent news (USA Today) that the company willingly turned over the phone call records of millions of citizens to the National Security Agency who requested the information without a legal warrant. The NSA is now in possession of what one employee described as the 'biggest database ever built'.