**Bruce Kushnick** has been a telecom analyst for 38 years and is the author of _The Book of Broken Promises: $400 Billion Broadband Scandal & Free the Net_ (published 2015). He is the managing director of the Irregulators, a group of telecom experts, analysts, forensic auditors, and lawyers who are working to stop the billions in overcharging, reopen the networks to direct competition, and upgrade them to deliver very high speed fiber to all.