By David Lazarus, LOS ANGELES TIMES May 23, 2019 https://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-cable-bills-20190523-story.html The most-hated businesses in the country, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index, are pay-TV...
By Matt Kapko, FIERCE WIRELESS January 11, 2019 https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/u-s-carriers-caught-selling-customers-location-data-to-third-parties-again The U.S. wireless industry has been caught in a fresh scandal amid a new report that...
By Matt Kapko, FIERCE WIRELESS January 11, 2019 https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/u-s-carriers-caught-selling-customers-location-data-to-third-parties-again The U.S. wireless industry has been caught in a fresh scandal amid a new report that...
LOS ANGELES, CA – Google’s lobbying expenditures in the first quarter of this year topped $5 million, as the Internet giant sought to influence federal...
LOS ANGELES – Consumer Watchdog today called on tech giants Google, Comcast, AT&T and Verizon to follow Facebook’s lead and drop their opposition to a...
You’ll Be Paying For AT&T’s Purchase Of Time Warner Through Your Cable Bill By A.J. Dellinger, GIZMODO April 11, 2018 https://gizmodo.com/youll-be-paying-for-at-ts-purchase-of-time-warner-throu-1825192267 The Department of Justice...
SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog today backed the U.S. Department of Justice suit to block AT&T’s planned purchase of Time Warner for $85 billion,...
AT&T barely outspent Google to be the third quarter’s top telecom/tech spender on lobbying, shelling out $4.13 million, up 8% from Q3 2016, according to Consumer Watchdog’s...
SANTA MONICA, CA – AT&T and Google third-quarter lobbying expenditures this year both topped $4 million with the telecommunications conglomerate barely edging out the Internet...
SANTA MONICA, CA – Google increased its 2016 third-quarter federal lobbying spending 4.2 percent to $3.81 million from $3.65 million in the comparable 2015 period, but…
In addition to the $21 billion made annually by cable set top box rental fees, cable companies make untold billions from monetizing the user viewing data…
A group of consumer watchdogs has filed a complaint with the FCC, alleging that Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), AT&T (NYSE: T) and Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) are violating…
WASHINGTON, DC -- Google slashed spending on lobbying by 25.5 percent in the first quarter of 2016 to $3.80 million, while AT&T reported the highest lobbying…
SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog today welcomed the demise of the Comcast -Time Warner Cable deal in the face of strong objections by federal regulators…
Santa Monica, CA — Consumer Watchdog, the California-based non-profit that sued DIRECTV for abusive practices 7 years ago on behalf of overcharged consumers, hailed the Federal…
