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Bruce Kushnick

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  • Contributor, Freelance
  • Executive Director, New Networks Institute
  • Managing Director, IRREGULATORS
New York
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Covers:  Telecommunications, FCC, state regulations, Net Neutrality, fiber optic deployments, copper retirement, 5G, Digital Divide, broadband, AT&T, Verizon, cable and phone companies, accounting scandals
Telecom analyst for 40 years, and I write music and have been playing the piano for 65 years. irregulators.org

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Bruce Kushnick is the Managing Director of the IRREGULATORS and Executive Director of New Networks Institute. Kushnick has been a telecom analyst for over 38 years. If you ever used a touchtone phone, saw the phone number of the caller or listened to a recording over the last three decades, odds are Bruce Kushnick had something to do with it. In 1985, as Senior Telecom Analyst for IDC/Link, (a subsidiary of International Data Corp), Kushnick’s 1985 report (a best seller) predicted that the add…

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Chairman Carr Tells Congress the FCC is Not an Independent Agency, Contradicting 25 Years of Web Site and Other Information.

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By Bruce Kushnick
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Press enter or click to view image in full size PC Magazine covered the FCC Senate Oversight Committee hearing where, after verbal exchanges, Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) asked FCC Chair Brendan Carr: “Please, yes or no, is the FCC an independent agency?” PC Mag continued “the senator pointed to the commission’s “About the FCC” page, which described it as “An independent US government agency overseen by Congress.” Sen.
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Refreshing the Record: 27 Years of FCC Filings and Complaints in the Section 706 Advanced Network and Related Proceedings by New Networks Institute, Teletruth and the IRREGULATORS. | by Bruce Kushnick | Sep, 2025 | Medium

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By Bruce Kushnick
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Press enter or click to view image in full size Refreshing the Record New Networks Institute, Teletruth and the IRREGULATORS are relaunching next month and this document presents the factual history of fiber optic broadband that we filed with the FCC since 1998. We participated in over 50 proceedings, and submitted over 5,100 pages, all focused on the Section 706 advanced network inquiries and related proceedings. Our Current Filing September 8th, 2025 -This post is part of our filing.
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If the FCC Abolishes America's 1 Gig Goal for Broadband Speed, in 10 Years, We Will be the...

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By Bruce Kushnick
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IMPORTANT: According to Google AI, a standard 4K conferencing service uses at least 25Mbps per connection, and this speed would be required in each direction. I.e., every speed we discuss below for wireless or satellite would not be able to handle the speed to be able to participate in both directions. And this is 2025, not 10 years from now.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Harvard Neiman Watchdog, now defunct.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

couldn't type in the age of the selectric.

How is social media changing news?

We now have the depth of a piece of glitter.
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