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Why Is Multi-Billion Dollar Telecom Time Warner Fretting About a Small City in North Carolina?

David Morris, On the Commons. June 27, 2011.

A story of how the public sector can vastly outperform the private one.

It's Time to Break Up AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner and the Rest of the Telecoms

David Rosen, Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet. May 11, 2011.

Today's telecoms provide overpriced and inferior service, and are systematically overcharging the hapless American consumer.

Cable Companies' $46+ Billion Robbery -- Subscribers Have Been Ripped off for $5 a Month Since 2000

David Rosen, Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet. November 8, 2010.

The cable companies are diverting money that is intended to improve infrastructure, creating a perpetual cash machine for greedy execs.

Inside the TV Wars: Mergers, Monoliths and Shady Backroom Deals

Megan Tady, FAIR. March 12, 2010.

Our media powerhouses aren’t ready to evolve, and they’re prepared to sabotage content, creativity and innovation to avoid doing so.

Comcast's Launch of "TV Everywhere" Is Really an Attack on Free Web TV

Josh Silver, In These Times. January 12, 2010.

TV Everywhere's proposed "paywall" is desperate attack on web TV purveyors. The worst part? Comcast is marketing it as a "consumer friendly" option.

Suck It, Telecoms! Public Broadband Gets Reprieve in North Carolina

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. May 6, 2009.

Legislators put on ice a bill that would have crippled municipal broadband projects.

Fake Consumer Rights Group Says Getting Ripped-Off for Internet Use Is Good For You

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 23, 2009.

A shill group is taking up the fight to legitimize attempt by cable giants AT&T and Time Warner to price-gouge for Internet service.

Cable Giants Continue Hoping No One Will Notice Their Attempts to Destroy the Internet

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 22, 2009.

Despite Time Warner's epic fail with metered billing, AT&T has refused to abandon its usage caps program -- and the AT&T version is even worse.

Time Warner COO: You WANT to Pay More for Internet Service

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 7, 2009.

COO Landel Hobbs claims that customers want a "tiered" pricing system for Internet use.

Price Gouging for Internet Use: Coming To a Town Near You?

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 7, 2009.

Time Warner's strategy for managing increased Internet use -- ripping off customers -- has not been very popular.

Telecoms' Holy Grail of Internet Profits Is the Next Frontier in Corporate Spying

Timothy Karr, Huffington Post. October 15, 2008.

"Simply put, Deep Packet Inspection is the Internet equivalent of the postal service reading your mail."