A group of
telecom industry experts called The Irregulators has exposed a vast and
illegal financial scheme in the telecommunications industry
Telecom analyst
Bruce Kushnick and attorney Scott McCollough are spearheading the
organization’s lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission, an
agency captured by the telecom industry
For decades,
basic telephone rate payers — wire line customers — have funded the
deployment of wireless in general, and now 5G in particular, through
their phone bills
The illegal
redirection of funds amounts to about $1 trillion over the past 15
years, and without this money, 5G would not be possible. Were the
wireless industry forced to pay its fair share of infrastructure costs,
5G would not be economically feasible as a consumer product
Wireline
customers paid for an upgrade to fast and safe fiber optic wiring across
the nation, but now we’re getting harmful 5G wireless instead. Fight
back by demanding your state telecom utility return the misappropriated
funds and allocate the money back into broadband fiber optics for each
home
In the December 2019 interview,
"Irregulators vs. FCC: Exposing and Prosecuting a Vast, Illegal
Financial Scandal in Telecommunications,"1 Josh del Sol — who directed the documentary films "Take Back Your Power" (a film detailing the dangers of smart meters) and "InPower Episode 1: A Mass Action of Liability"
(which reveals how you can refuse smart meters) — talks to Bruce
Kushnick and W. Scott McCollough, Esq. about their lawsuit against the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Vast Corruption Uncovered
Kushnick, a telecom analyst, and attorney McCollough, a former Texas
assistant attorney general, are part of a group called The Irregulators,
which has exposed a vast and illegal financial scandal in the
telecommunications industry. Kushnick and McCollough are spearheading
the organization's lawsuit against the FCC. As noted on del Sol's
website:2
"[Kushnick and McCollough are] leading experts in the telecom
industry who have mapped a pathway to restore the Internet to the
human-friendly, benevolent ideals from which it started. As part of this
redirection, they're not afraid to call out the corruption of those who
have hijacked it.
Bruce and Scott lead the IRREGULATORS,3
a group of telecom industry experts and insiders who are taking the FCC
to federal court in January [17], 2020, armed with evidence — of an
estimated $1 trillion scandal — and strategy that could very well pave
the way to a great restructuring of telecom and dissolution of the 5G
agenda."
Disrupting the Funding That Drives 5G Deployment
As explained by McCollough, the aim of the lawsuit is to get the FCC
"to recognize the fact that basic telephone rate payers — wire line
customers — have been funding deployment of wireless in general, and now
5G in particular, through their basic phone bills."
If the prosecution is successful, the FCC will either have to
eliminate this illegal subsidy to the wireless industry, or "step aside
and allow individual states decide whether they want to do so,"
McCollough says. Nationwide, this redirection of funds amounts to about
$1 trillion over the past 15 years, and without this money, 5G would not
have been possible.
Were the wireless industry forced to pay its fair share of
construction and maintenance, local (i.e., wired) phone rates would go
down while the cost to wireless providers would rise, as they'd have to
pay far more for the fiber optic cables needed to continue the expansion
and advancement of wireless, thus making 5G uneconomical as a consumer
product.
In other words, this lawsuit has the potential to alter the
telecommunications industry from the ground up. As noted by McCollough,
the lawsuit "is a knife in the heart of the economics that currently
drive 5G … 5G cannot sustain itself on an economic basis if it has to
pay its own way."
The full story behind the lawsuit is detailed in Kushnick's book,
"The Book of Broken Promises: $400 Billion Broadband Scandal & Free
the Net," available on Amazon4 in paperback and Kindle. A free PDF version of the book is also available for download.5
In his book, Kushnick breaks down what state utilities are, the
history of telecommunications and how we've gotten to this point with
advanced wireless and 5G. It's fodder and ammunition for anyone wanting
to help stop the implementation of 5G and redirect us back to the far
safer alternative of fiber optic broadband.
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Broken Promises
In the interview, Kushnick explains how wired customers ended up
paying for our wireless infrastructure. The telephone wires that
telephone companies use to provide service are part of a state utility.
These copper wires were installed across the U.S. starting in the
1930s until the 1970s, so that no matter where you went in the U.S.,
there was a phone available. Ma Bell owned most of the state utilities
until 1984, when its monopoly was broken up into regional Bell
companies.
In 1992, Vice President Al Gore campaigned on a promise that everyone
in America would have fiber optic wire through their home and office by
2010. State utilities agreed to set aside a small amount from each
customer's bill to fund the nationwide conversion to fiber optics.
However, by 2000, virtually none of the fiber optic wiring had been
done. As noted by Kushnick, "they basically pocketed the money." By the
end of 2000, California alone was supposed to have 5.5 million
households finished, at a projected cost of $16 billion.
In 1998-1999, the FCC started tracking broadband, but they left out
the states' financial commitments. In other words, Kushnick says, they
covered up the fact that state utilities had collected money for the
implementation of fiber optics that was never actually done.
According to Kushnick, between 1993 and 2004 alone, state utilities
overcharged customers a total of $200 billion for fiber optics wiring
that was promised but never installed. As noted by McCollough:
"We had a bait and switch. We paid for a bunch of fiber to the
home, and now we're getting 5G instead. We started this accounting thing
not because we wanted to kill 5G, but because it was the right thing to
do, once we figured out how badly local and intra-state wireline
ratepayers were getting screwed."
An Even Bigger Accounting Scandal
But this is only half of the scandal. The Irregulators discovered an
even bigger fraud. Financial documents obtained from Verizon New York
(New York's official telecom utility), reveal wireless service providers
are stealing funds from wireline rate payers to the tune of $60 billion
per year in New York alone, and FCC rules are what allow for this
theft.
In a simplified nutshell, the FCC froze its cost-accounting rules in
2000, and by so doing, allowed telecom companies to manipulate their
books in such a way that local service revenues (i.e., monies collected
for wired phone services) could be allocated to pay for the buildout of
wireless infrastructure.
For example, the expenses telecoms paid in 2019 were based on the
same expense percentage as in 2000. Twenty years ago, local service,
meaning the wired phone service, provided a majority of the revenue and
paid a majority (65%) of the expenses, such as construction and
maintenance.
In 2019, Verizon New York's local service accounted for a mere 21% of
the utility's revenue, yet still accounted for more than 60% of the
company's expenses.
The FCC's policies, Kushnick and McCollough explain, have created and
allowed for a cross-subsidy practice in which wireless services are
being paid for by wireline customers, while wireless companies are
paying only a fraction of the expenses they incur.
What's more, McCollough points out that whatever fiber optic wiring
was in fact deployed is now being repurposed for wireless services. So,
in that sense, the two fraud scenarios are interrelated.
What this has all led to is that, on the books, wired telephone
service appears to be very expensive and unprofitable when, in reality,
wireless is less expensive simply because it's been illegally
subsidized.
If wireless companies were no longer allowed a free ride, there would
be billions of dollars available in each state, each year, to install
broadband fiber optics, which would eliminate the need for wireless 5G.
Now, the reason all of this corruption and fraud has been allowed to
occur is because the FCC is a captured agency — and has been for
decades, McCollough says. The wireless industry has taken over the very
agency that is supposed to regulate and oversee it, and without
oversight, the foxes have raided the henhouse.
For more details, see Irregulators.org,6
where you can find an audio recording of McCullough's January 17, 2020,
oral arguments before the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. If you'd like to
make a donation to help fund this legal fight, you'll find a link to
that at the top of the page as well.
The Way Forward: Taking Back Our Utilities
McCollough and Kushnick are optimistic about our ability to block 5G.
In the interview, they sum up how, by teaming up with our local
officials, residents in all states can fight back by demanding their
state telecom utility return the misappropriated funds and allocate them
back into broadband fiber optics.
"All these officials hear … is news coming down from the top, and
from the feds, and from industry, [saying], 'There is nothing you can
do. Your hands are tied. We have tied your hands,'" McCollough says.
"Well your hands are not tied. I mean, there may be a piece of
string around one of your fingers. Yes, you have a finger that is tied —
but you've still got nine other fingers! They [local officials] may not
be able to stop the tower… but they can stop the fiber that goes to the
tower."
The key goal, and the answer to the 5G dilemma, McCollough points
out, is to upgrade to fiber optic wiring across the nation. It's not
only fast, but also far safer, from a health standpoint, than wireless.
And, as noted by Irregulators.org, 5G still requires fiber optic wiring,
so why not just stop there?
Fiber optics is certainly safer than 5G — and we already paid for it.
It's time we demand our state utilities return the stolen money and
make good on their promise to bring fiber optics into every home and
office. As noted on Irregulators.org:7
"5G is the newest in a long line of tech
services that are supposed to change our lives for the better. But this
service has a range of a few city blocks, requires a fiber optic wire,
and there are health concerns with small cell antennas too close to
homes.
Truth is, 5G is really designed to get rid of the wired regulations
and obligations, and have wireline phone customers pay —
cross-subsidize, the wireless companies' business."
We've Been 'EMF*D'
Over the past decade, I've written many articles discussing the
evidence of biological harm from nonionizing electromagnetic field (EMF)
radiation, which I believe is one of the greatest challenges to public
health facing us today. For a refresher, see my previous article, "Reduce EMF Exposure."
For a recap on the additional hazards brought on by 5G, see "5G Apocalypse: The Extinction Event," which features a documentary by the same name, or "Scientific American Warns: 5G Is Unsafe."
My new book, "EMF*D," is an attempt to inform you about the hidden harms
of EMF and what you need to do to protect yourself and those you love. I
also reveal the reasons why you've been left in the dark about this
serious health threat. In it, you'll learn:
How EMFs are impacting your body and mind
Where you can find them in your daily life
How they can cause disease and speed up aging
How to repair the damage done by EMFs at the cellular level
Practical strategies to protect yourself and your loved ones from EMFs
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