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[ NNSquad ] Another massive fraud being pushed on consumers by AT&T
Another massive fraud being pushed on consumers by AT&T
http://j.mp/10n6jAs (Huffington)
AT&T claims the Petition is about not regulating phone service using
the Internet -- i.e., Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) -- and it's
for "Internet Freedom." But this is all a verbal jujitsu as a careful
examination reveals that the Petition and surrounding documents are
designed to remove basic oversight, getting rid of competition and,
more important, ending carrier of last resort requirements. Under such
"deregulation," AT&T won't have to offer you service, won't have to
fix your phone line if it breaks, won't have to serve rural
communities and will significantly impact small business with an ATM
machine, an alarm circuit or other wired "data" services. Moreover,
they will 'abandon' whole areas to a 'digital dead zone' -- where the
wires don't get upgraded and can't do broadband. AT&T and Verizon have
been playing a shell game with consumers. AT&T promotes it much-touted
U-Verse fiber network as a next-generation service, but fails to
reveal that its network really based on the old, copper wiring in
customers' homes; it is a PSTN-based copper-to-the-home service. More
troubling, AT&T announced that it was going to stop building out their
broadband networks unless this petition goes through. Verizon has
simply said it will stop its fiber to the home service, FiOS and
abandon most of its wires -- as the majority of customers are still on
copper -- which, ironically, should have been upgraded over the last
two decades. In short, AT&T's Petition requests that it starts the
'transition' to the Internet protocols, when in fact it is simply a
plan to stop upgrading whole areas of AT&T's 22 states and get rid of
all regulations.
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Pay attention to this please! It's all about AT&T wanting to abandon
all regulations and requirements for reliable phone service --
especially in emergencies -- under the guise of rushing to universal
VoIP services that simply can't measure up to the task at hand. It's
basically another fraud being directed at consumers by the AT&T
monopoly machine.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
- Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
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Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
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