The New York Times reported the release of a book which illustrates the history, legacy and the "fraud" committed by the Bell Companies over the course of years. Broken promises to various states in order to gain incentives are at the core of "$200 Billion Dollar Broadband Scandals." The book may be purchased in E-Book format for $20.

Interestingly, this book contains everything you ever wanted to know about the Bells and is no doubt something that they are watching closely. You can read more about the publication here: $200 Billion Dollar Broadband Scandal

B. Class Action over Yellow Pages Advertising

Verizonpathetic.com has been receiving a growing number of complaints about questionable yellow page advertising tactics by Verizon. The chief complaint is that VZ will automatically renew a clients subscription without any prior notification for the following year unless they are told otherwise

A California law firm has decided to file suit over this issue and they have sent a copy of the complaint to us. It can be viewed here: verizon_yellopage_suit.pdf Please feel free to contact them if you have had a similar issue. They would love to chat with you!

C. Credit Fix Example 

We occasionally receive questions from individuals about fixing their maligned credit due to Verizon's mistake. We have posted the steps to take in our "Solutions for your Problem" section. We also received a "thank you" from someone who used that information as well as our contact info for Ivan Seidenberg and wrote this to us:

Thank you for your help. After writing FTC, California Consumer Affairs, and VP at experian the LINK you provided on your website for the CEO has proved the most useful. I was contacted by Betsy Hoachlander of the recoveries group. She seems to be taking care of everything including getting me a refund and more importantly correcting my credit score. Hopefully all will be fixed shortly Thank You for you informative website!

We strongly recommend that if you have ANY types of issues with credit reports that are not accurate, follow our steps and the problem should be rectified.