NCTA Challenges the Bell Companies to Tell the Truth

[SOURCE: National Cable & Telecommunications Association press release]
As the Bell telephone companies pressure Congress and statehouses for one-sided legislation that would give them privileged regulatory status in the video marketplace, they continue to flood the airwaves and print media with a multitude of advertising that distorts the truth, according to a research paper released by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA). “Phone Companies and the Truth: A Bad Connection,” provides a fact-filled rebuttal to claims made by the Bell companies and their “supporters” in recent advertising. In addition to using false and misleading advertising in order to convince Congress they should receive special favors, the Bells also continue to pay third-party organizations to run advertising and advocate their viewpoint without disclosing Bell funding of those groups, NCTA said. NCTA supports reform of existing telecommunications law in light of advancing technology and a rapidly changing marketplace, and it supports measures that streamline and simplify government rules and regulations to promote competition, provided those rules apply equally to all competitors. The Bell companies by contrast are pushing federal and state legislative activities that tilt the competitive playing field strongly to their benefit.
http://www.ncta.com/press/press.cfm?PRid=681&showArticles=ok

* Phone Companies and the Truth: A Bad Connection
http://www.ncta.com/pdf_files/Bells_Misleading_America.pdf