Fear-mongering net neutrality robocalls target senior citizens; AT&T,...
Big telecom companies like AT&T and Verizon have been stressing out as states like California move closer and closer to enacting meaningful net neutrality consumer protections. In the wake of...
View ArticleTelecom lobbyist mistakenly sends tech writer idiotic talking points
Big telecoms are in the business of making money and increasing their strangleholds on the marketplace. They do not really care what happens to the majority of the country in the long run, because...
View ArticleCalifornia assembly approves strictest net neutrality bill. It could become...
Advocates in California for an open internet, with serious consumer protections, took another big step towards the country’s strictest net neutrality laws on Thursday. The state Assembly voted on...
View Article70% of low-income families on brink of losing subsidized phone access under...
Since last summer, it has become very clear that while the Republican Party is willing to add trillions of dollars to our national deficit in order to pay off the rich, they will pretend to be...
View ArticleTrump's FCC hack Ajit Pai helps kill Minnesota consumer protections and then...
The FCC’s Republican majority, led by former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai, has been successful in laying the groundwork to broaden our economic and social inequalities in the field of communications....
View ArticleFCC chair Pai calls California net neutrality law illegal, gets smacked down...
California is potentially weeks away from signing into law the strictest net neutrality regulations in the country. Telecoms, having bought the FCC, are freaking out because they are now facing...
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Trump's FCC votes to take $2 billion from cities and towns and give it to...
Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission, headed by former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai, has done it again. This time, instead of ripping away consumer protections, Pai is continuing the telecom...
View ArticleHurricane Michael victims can't use phones to summon help, thanks to Trump's...
As of Friday, several Florida counties devastated by Hurricane Michael have registered double-digit outages in their wireless service, which is currently one of the only means available for many of...
View ArticleRemember how gifting telecoms $2 billion would speed up infrastructure...
You may have missed it, but a couple of weeks ago the FCC Verizon shill Ajit Pai and his Republican cronies voted to steal away an estimated $2 billion from municipalities and states by limiting the...
View ArticleAT&T CEO suddenly a huge proponent of federal net neutrality law after...
AT&T, the Republican-led FCC, and telecoms everywhere are in the midst of litigating a variety of net neutrality fights from coast to coast. One of the more publicized and perfectly karmic is the...
View ArticleIt turns out that repealing net neutrality is leading to less broadband...
Back when the FCC, under chairman Ajit Pai, was lying about cyber attacks in order to ignore the overwhelmingly negative reaction to its plans to repeal net neutrality protections, Pai promised that...
View ArticleDemocratic leaders in Congress tells FCC's Ajit Pai to buckle up: It's time...
Ajit Pai’s tenure as chair of Trump’s FCC has been smooth sailing, in that he has had a corrupt Republican majority in the legislative branch of our government. Meanwhile, America has had a very rocky...
View ArticleCharter Communications will keep their tax breaks, not invest in...
One of those unicorn dreams that the Republican Party and its henchmen like FCC chair Ajit Pai promised everyone was that getting rid of regulations and slashing taxes on the rich and corporations...
View ArticleDemocrats reveal plan to Save the Internet, and it's going to be a big...
On Monday, the Democratic Party leadership informed the public that they would be unveiling their “Save the Net” legislation to re-install net neutrality consumer protections rolled back under Donald...
View ArticleTelecom profiteer Mitch McConnell says net neutrality bill 'dead on arrival'
Welcome back to the swamp. The majority of Americans did not want Trump’s FCC, under former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai, to roll back net neutrality protections. The democratically elected House of...
View ArticleThe cable industry made $28 billion last year in company-imposed hidden fees
For over a decade, the telecom and cable industry has used hidden fees to get around its misleading advertising. When Comcast tells you your cable will only cost you $50 a month, it is lying....
View ArticleAT&T promised cheap TV service in order to get their merger through: They...
AT&T is a prime example of how the conservative economic view of the world does not work out for anyone other than the top one percent. After being gifted tens of billions of dollars in the...
View ArticleVerizon and AT&T cut nearly 100,000 jobs but keep billions in tax breaks
The Republican tax giveaway to the richest people in our country extended into the businesses they owned. Then Majority-Leader Mitch McConnell told everyone that he believed the new jobs and trickling...
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I really REALLY hate it when my phone rings these days. Update x 2
Pretty sure this has been diaried about because the problem is hitting everyone, but I am really having a problem with the constant stream of junk phone calls. Calls offering to extend my car’s...
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