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LARGEST
ACCOUNTING SCANDAL IN HISTORY!

July
17th, 2003 PRESS ALERT AND SUMMARY

Teletruth
Releases Excerpts from Verizon's Equipment Records Revealing
Thousands of Accounting Violations that Inflated ALL Phone Rates.

Teletruth
Estimates that Every Residential Customer Paid Approximately $600
Per-phoneline for "Vaporware", Missing Equipment Added
to Phone Rates.

Teletruth
Requests Investigations by Verizon Audit Committee, IRS and SEC,
state Commissions, Files FOIA to Open All Bell Accounting Books,

Forget
about Enron, MCI or Global Crossing's accounting problems. Those
companies are small time compared to the Bell companies. To
read more...

Broadband
Reports Exclusive Interview With Bruce Kushnick, Chairman, Teletruth

Cartoon and Links About The Bells' Failed Broadband Deployments

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to Help Teletruth Fight for Your Telecom & Broadband Rights.

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Texas
ISP Association Sets up Pay Pal to Help Teletruth.

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TeleTruth
Petitions FCC

The Current Telecom
and DSL Laws are Not Being Adequately Enforced---Adopt
The "Broadband Bill Of Rights"

Click
to Read the Petition, Press Release, ISP Survey, BBOR, and More.

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FCC's Proposed Media
And Broadband Consolidation Rules Violate Numerous Laws.

Press
Release

Letter
to Senate Commerce Committee

WORD
DOC

The
Tell-The-Truth Broadband Challenge Vs

"The
Verizon 100 Megabit Challenge"

It's
time for Verizon to Tell The Truth about their failed fiber
optic plans and how much money customers paid for services they
will never receive.

Idiots
Delight on the Animal Farm

A
Perspective About the FCC's New Local Competition and Broadband
Rules.

Five
monkeys with typewriters may have been able to come up with a
more coherent and useful plan for the future of telecommunications
and broadband than the rotten bananas of regulation being proposed
by the FCC.

BELL
BROADBAND FRAUD? ARE YOU OWED MONEY?

Release
and Summary

Teletruth
estimates that customers paid Verizon Pennsylvania $785 per household
for a fiber-optic service they will never receive.
Read
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Teletruth
Files Complaint Against FCC -- FCC's Broadband Data Flawed and
Proposed Rules Give Bells Customer-Funded Networks. Read
More

DOES THE FCC HATE SMALL BUSINESS?

Teletruth
-- FCC's Triennial Review in Violation of Numerous Laws Designed
to Protect Small Businesses.

SBA
Ex Parte on Proposed FCC Ruling

NFIB's
Ex Parte on Proposed FCC Ruling

Hundreds
of Signatories for Ex Parte Filing by Teletruth member Pulver.com

1.

Learn More: :"BAD
FOR BROADBAND"

The FCC has proposed 6 inter-related rulings that will
essentially will harm small business telecom competitors, including
Internet Service Providers, (ISPs)  and Competitive Local Exchange
Companies. (CLECs) and millions of their small business customers.

2.

Four
Broadband Presentations

TeleTruth
files with the FCC over Commissioner Martin's statements pertaining
to the FCC's proposed broadband rules. This Commissioner
wants to block competition for broadband. Read
the Summary
(12/20/02)

The
Two Broadbands---.How New York City Got Conned. ---There
are two broadbands: A fiber-optic service we never got and a 75+
year old service over old copper wiring.

Broadband
Connectivity A Discussion of the Importance of the Independent
Internet Service Provider. Small ISPs are critical to
America's Future. ---All broadband is not created equal.

"Broken
Trust - Indictment of the Bell Company CEO" The FCC's
regulatory bailout of the Bell companies is undeserved and will
not prevent the bankruptcy of the Bell companies in America.

3.

Free Report

TeleTruth
Releases "Small Telecom Business Impact Study"
Word
Version (with footnotes)

1500 Small Competitors could be harmed if the FCC's plans goes
through.

Over 10-15 million customers could have to change service providers

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What
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TeleTruth is a national,
independent, customer alliance dedicated to fixing the problems in
telecommunications -- from customer overcharging and harm to competitors,
to the customer issues surrounding Broadband deployment and competition.
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Free
Phonebill Analysis

Phone
Bill Outrage!--learn more

See
TeleTruth Chairman Bruce Kushnick on Fox News, May 13, 2003:

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Forbes Magazine Highlight's Teletruth
SEC Filing--- Current Issue!

Shortchanged

The Baby Bells may have bilked consumers out of billions
by inflating the cost of their networks. Regulators seem content
to overlook the matter... Now some factions are pushing regulators
to take a harder look inside this can of worms. In February a small
watchdog group, TeleTruth, petitioned the Securities & Exchange
Commission to launch an investigation.

TELETRUTH
FILES COMPLAINT
WITH SEC OVER VERIZON COOKED BOOKS!

Learn
more about:

"CONTINUE
THE AUDITS" Campaign

Are
You Owed Money From Verizon? Free Phonebill Audits for Verizon Customers

"Send
Us Your Phonebill" Campaign

50% of All Small Business phonebills have mistakes. ---And that's
why we have announced our "Send Us Your Phone Bill" campaign
in the Verizon territory to help business and residential customers
recover overcharges on their Verizon telephone bills.

To read the Press
Release

To learn more about getting a free
phonebill audit

Phone
Bill Outrage!

Common
phone bill problems:

Chronic overcharging
for local phone service

Can't keep your phone number even though you're only moving down the
street?

Endless fees on your phone bill

Take
Action

1.

How
to file a complaint to proper government agency - Teletruth offers
sample letters and where to send it.

2.

For free, let TeleTruth audit
your phone bill. You could get back $thousands. (small businesses
only)

3.

Learn how to read a phone
bill and defend yourself against systematic overcharging.

READING ROOM

READ
THE BOOK THE BELL COMPANIES NEVER WANT YOU TO READ!

The Unauthorized Bio of the
Baby Bells.

Free Reports on BellSouth, Qwest, SBC and Verizon
Profits, Overseas Losses, Executive Compensation

The Bells are telling everyone they are losing money,
and that they should raise phonerates and block competition. These
new reports show that the Bells are giving misleading facts to charge
you more money.

Bell
Profits:
Phone prices should be declining

Executive
Compensation --- You're paying extra for $1-2 billion
in stock options, free apartments and free airfare.

Bell
Overseas Losses -- The Bells lost $16 billion overseas
in the last two years -- and you're paying for these losses through
higher phone rates

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