{"id":879030,"date":"2022-11-11T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=264192"},"modified":"2022-11-11T06:58:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T06:58:00","slug":"secrets-of-an-att-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/11\/11\/secrets-of-an-att-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Secrets of an AT&amp;T Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most hidden \u201csecret\u201d of the AT&#038;T Illinois bribery scandal involved a 2017 state legislature vote regarding what is known as \"Carrier of Last Resort\" (COLR), that \u201cterminated AT&#038;T Illinois\u2019 costly obligation to provide landline telephone services to all Illinois residents.\u201d Still more hidden, the secret involved the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), one of the most important groups influencing telecom policy.\u00a0 It promotes itself as a \u201cnonpartisan individual membership organization of state legislators that favors federalism and conservative public policy solutions.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/11\/11\/secrets-of-an-att-scandal\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/11\/11\/secrets-of-an-att-scandal\/\">Secrets of an AT&#038;T Scandal<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/11\/11\/secrets-of-an-att-scandal\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most hidden \u201csecret\u201d of the AT&#038;T Illinois bribery scandal involved a 2017 state legislature vote regarding what is known as &#8220;Carrier of Last Resort&#8221; (COLR), that \u201cterminated AT&#038;T Illinois\u2019 costly obligation to provide landline telephone s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879031,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879030\/revisions\/879031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}