{"id":2275,"date":"2006-04-10T09:18:49","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T09:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2006-04-10T09:18:49","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T09:18:49","slug":"whitepaper_on_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2275","title":{"rendered":"Whitepaper on Telco Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/isen.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/telco-lies-whitepaper.html\">David Isenberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Here&#8217;s a very <a href=\"http:\/\/72.14.203.104\/search?q=cache:gyzrAdI2b8YJ:www.broadbandeverywhere.org\/docs\/FrayedattheEdges3-29-06.pdf+broadbandeverywhere+kushnick&amp;hl=en&amp;gl=us&amp;ct=clnk&amp;cd=1&amp;client=firefox-a\">well-written<\/a> report of the Bell&#8217;s trail of Rate Relief and Broken Promises. It is funded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadbandeverywhere.org\/home\/index.ashx\">Broadband Everywhere<\/a>, a consortium that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadbandeverywhere.org\/About_Us\/WhoWeAre.ashx\">openly funded<\/a> by small cablecos and the NCTA, who are fighting back against the Bell-flavored franchise reform law moving through Congress. It relies heavily on the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newnetworks.com\/broadbandscandals.htm\">Bruce Kushnick<\/a>, but it also cites many relevant local press stories from, e.g., Enid OK (where a promise of 500 jobs led to rate relief and a net loss of jobs), Austin TX (where a new Texas law that assumed &#8220;competition&#8221; would lead to lower prices and granted rate relief actually led to rate caps), etc., etc., etc. <\/p>\n<p>Really good stuff on a bad story that demands more attention! Mainstream reporters, attention please!<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Isenberg: Here&#8217;s a very well-written report of the Bell&#8217;s trail of Rate Relief and Broken Promises. It is funded by Broadband Everywhere, a consortium that&#8217;s openly funded by small cablecos and the NCTA, who are fighting back against the Bell-flavored franchise reform law moving through Congress. It relies heavily on the work of Bruce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}