66 Unanswered Questions and Issues of Wireline-Wireless-Cable Connections and Collusion

[Commentary] The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Communications Commission are currently evaluating whether Verizon should be allowed to purchase wireless spectrum from the cable companies as well as co-market wireless services with cable-broadband products offered by the cable companies. Instead, we request the Department of Justice investigate Verizon's business dealings and the harms to customers by Verizon Wireless and the rest of Verizon's affiliate companies, such as Verizon-state-based utilities, such as Verizon, New Jersey or New York, or Verizon's other affiliates from Verizon Business to Verizon Online.

This analysis should also be done of AT&T and its affiliate companies. This not only relates to the current Verizon deal with the cable companies but the manipulation of assets and data to help close down America's Public Switched Telephone Networks (PSTN), America's state-based public utilities. It is a multi-layered problem as the companies have been at this for a decade and can manipulate the data (or eliminate collection of data completely) as well as have the financial resources to make their own agenda the 'common wisdom' on both the state and federal level, even though it is biased, anti-consumer, anti-public interest, and will harm the US economy.