Verizon Moves Between Heavily Regulated Utility to Build Taxpayer Paid Infrastructure and Deregulated Information Service to Avoid Providing High-Speed Internet

A Slashdot reader researched Verizon's slippery moves between acting as though it were a heavily regulated utility and a deregulated information service, depending on whether it was asking to be allowed to build infrastructure at taxpayer expense or whether it was building profit without meeting the requisite demands to provide high-speed internet in return for taxpayer subsidies.

Tweet @TomWheeler FCC now and tell him to classify the internet as a utility before Republicans like Rep. Bob Latta of Ohio move to make that classification impossible. Why would Republicans or Democrats make such a move? To benefit telecommunications companies who donate heavily to Congress and donated heavily ($21,500 personally from current FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, then an anti-net neutrality telecom executive, and $700,000-$1 million from his telecom executive friends), to Pres. Obama's presidential campaign.

You need to raise holy hell before it's too late because none of the principal actors, not former anti-net neutrality telecom exec and now FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, his anti-net neutrality staff, not Pres. Obama, not Republicans like Rep. Bob Latta of Ohio, nor any other corrupt Congresspersons who've taken bribes from the telecommunications industry can be trusted.

Shut down the Congressional switchboard with an overwhelming number of phone calls and then they'll listen. The rats in the sewer are most afraid of not being reelected.