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The author is Bruce Kushnick, a longtime irritant to the telecommunications industry. His targets are the Baby Bells, which he contends owe every American household about $2,000 because they reneged on their collective promise to deploy ultra-high-speed broadband Internet access via optical fiber to millions of homes. Mr. Kushnick writes that they received benefits in return -- including tax breaks and changes in state laws lifting limits on their profits -- amounting to more than $200 billion. Bruce Kushnick, is a author, a longtime irritant to the telecommunications industry. According, 86 million homes should be wired at 45 Mbps -- at least 15 times as fast as the best commonly available D.S.L. service. Mr. Kushnick writes in his introduction that for him it's like ordering a Ferrari and getting a bicycle. 