Fred Goldstein's Great Telecom Meltdown

Fred Goldstein, from ionary consulting fame, has a new book out called The Great Telecom Meltdown. Fred is a CLEC consultant and huge contributor to the listservs. The guy knows his stuff. He has a some interesting articles on his site, like his take on IMS / IPSphere; and his take on the Madison River Port Blocking ruling. It should be an interesting read. (Need some help as a CLEC? Contact Fred).

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• As long as I'm mentioning telecom reading, Leslie Cauley from USA Today released her book recently, End of the Line : The Rise and Fall of AT&T. (Maybe SBC CEO Ed Whitacre should read both books, so history doesn't repeat itself.)
• And lastly, Bruce Kushnick of TeleTruth is finishing up his book, "Broadband Scandals: You're Owed $1000.00. Please Read On..." to be self-published by Christmas. It tells the bloody tale of the lies and deceit of the Tele-Barons and how they robbed consumers of billions of dollars as well as our broadband future. (He has tons of data, memos, press release as proof).