{"id":6752,"date":"2012-09-27T18:04:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T23:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6752"},"modified":"2012-09-29T00:59:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T05:59:56","slug":"why-your-phone-cable-internet-bills-cost-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6752","title":{"rendered":"Why Your Phone, Cable &#038; Internet Bills Cost So Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p id=\"yui_3_5_1_1_1348786729173_183\">In his new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.lrd.yahoo.com\/_ylt=Au_CRmn4GFZXuo3VEB7v7M4p2YdG;_ylu=X3oDMTFpOGpyZm1sBG1pdANCbG9nIFBvc3QgQm9keQRwb3MDMgRzZWMDTWVkaWFCbG9nQm9keUFzc2VtYmx5;_ylg=X3oDMTM5bmRzaGcyBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDZTJhNGU4ODQtNTMzOS0zNGU0LTk5MzEtZTUzYTVlMTU2MTU4BHBzdGNhdANleGNsdXNpdmVzfGRhaWx5dGlja2VyBHB0A3N0b3J5cGFnZQ--;_ylv=0\/SIG=12okmudub\/EXP=1349996325\/**http%3A\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Fine-Print-Companies-English\/dp\/1591843588\">The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use &#8216;Plain English&#8217; to Rob You Blind<\/a>, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston highlights these astounding facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Americans pay four times as much as the French for an Internet triple-play package\u2014phone, cable TV and Internet\u2014at an average of $160 per month versus $38 per month.<\/li>\n<li>The French get global free calling and worldwide live television. Their Internet is also 10 times faster at downloading information and 20 times faster uploading it.<\/li>\n<li>America has gone from #1 in Internet speed (when we invented it) to 29th in the world and falling.<\/li>\n<li>Bulgaria is among the countries with faster Internet service.<\/li>\n<li>Americans pay 38 times as much as the Japanese for Internet data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/blogs\/daily-ticker\/why-phone-cable-internet-bills-cost-much-130914030.html\">Why Your Phone, Cable &amp; Internet Bills Cost So Much | Daily Ticker &#8211; Yahoo! Finance<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his new book, The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use &#8216;Plain English&#8217; to Rob You Blind, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston highlights these astounding facts: Americans pay four times as much as the French for an Internet triple-play &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6752\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,487],"class_list":["post-6752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-monopolistic-practices","tag-telecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6782,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752\/revisions\/6782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}