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by kushnick 6y ago
> >"deregulation killed the independent ISP" does not at all ring true. Economies of scale is part of it, but so >was consolidated billing, coax Internet, "triple play" packages, and wireless. Also, the market j
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by kushnick 6y ago
>The ISP's never got "$200 billion" in the 1990's. That's a total made up number, based on taking what ISP profits would >have been had they been regulated as a utility, and calling everything over that "
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by kushnick 6y ago
You might want to read one of the trilogy of books we wrote on the subject, the first published in 1998, the latest published in 2015, or the collection of research reports we published as New Networks and now the IRREGULATORS, our consorti
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by kushnick 8y ago
A few facts: ---In 2001, there were 9300 ISPs in America, handling the majority of US internet subscribers. ----By 2010, most of America was supposed to have a fiber optic service to the home as every state cut a deal to have the state uti
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by kushnick 12y ago
No. What I call 'tax' perk has multiple layers. First, around the original fiber optic deployment time, Verizon et al took one-time tax deductions under something called FASB71 -- of-$25 billion dollars, which was 2-3 billion per
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by kushnick 12y ago
You again. Maybe you should actually read the article instead of your usual knee jerk reaction, which is always wrong. The article is about Verizon making false and misleading statements to the FCC about its use of “Title II”, where it has
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AT&T's Top 13 Broken Promises. DIRECTV Merger? 'Giga'-Me-a-Break(huffingtonpost.com)
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by kushnick 12y ago
There's a problem with all of this-- Verizon's entire Fiber-to-the-home networks are classified as Title II, Common Carriage, telecommunications service. -- Already. Verizon did this to get the state-based utility rights of way as
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by kushnick 12y ago
Let me add some current history. Verizon's entire FiOS network is based on a Title II, common carriage, telecommunications classification-- that's right, for those following Net Neutrality, while Verizon et al screams about Title
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by kushnick 12y ago
Let's see, First, I have a new book which details the state materials. “The Book of Broken Promises” and goes through 2014, and covers most of the state commitments to deploy fiber optic broadband, monies collected and the failure to d
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by kushnick 12y ago
thanks. AT&T was broken up in 1984 and the company became a 'long distance company', while the local phone companies were spun off to create seven baby bells -- there was no internet then, and 'long distance' was a
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$300 Billion Broadband Scandal (2009) [pdf](teletruth.org)
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by kushnick 12y ago
short answer..one table, only giving the 'corporate earnings' doesn't tell the story-- but I'll think about a few to post.. highlights. First, the link is to 2014 financials; the tracking to charge for broadband by cha
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by kushnick 12y ago
The Urban legend speaks – I wrote 3 books on this topic, which outline, in detail how New Networks generated the numbers. In the 1990s, all of the phone companies in the US applied for and received alternative regulations which was based on