Activist Post by B.N. Frank
Over the years, numerous lawsuits have been filed against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) including one by a group of telecom experts, “The Irregulators”. According to the Irregulators’ lawsuit, Americans have already paid for telecom-related services that many have still not received including high speed broadband. In fact, for decades, Americans have been overcharged for telecom-related services and we are still being overcharged (see 1, 2, 3, 4). Adding insult to injury, the Biden Administration’s Infrastructure Bill (see 1, 2, 3), the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) (see 1, 2), and other state and federal internet connectivity funds (see 1, 2) have provided hundreds of millions of dollars to Big Telecom and Big Cable to primarily deploy more unsafe, unreliable, and inferior Wi-Fi and 5G broadband connections instead of safer, more secure, and more reliable fiber optics to the premises (FTTP) and copper landline connections. Thanks to Irregulator, Bruce Kushnick, for another update on this seemingly never-ending boondoggle…
