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Many ISPs complain that the ILECs have unfair advantages due to favorable regulation. We present public information: donations by corporations in the ISP industry to Political Action Committees. ILECs and Microsoft top the list.
Associate Editor, ISP-Planet
[September 8, 2000]
| Name | Total | Democrats | Republicans |
| Verizon | $1,287,425 | $ 409,259 | $ 876,466 |
| SBC | $ 886,250 | $ 401,175 | $ 485,075 |
| BellSouth Corp + Bell South Telecommunications |
$ 618,175 | $ 212,100 | $ 402,575 |
| Microsoft | $ 413,999 | $ 195,500 | $ 218,499 |
| AT&T Wireless Services + AT&T | $ 371,881 | $ 166,150 | $ 205,731 |
| MCI WorldCom | $ 330,069 | $ 161,760 | $ 168,309 |
| Ameritech | $ 268,588 | $ 97,238 | $ 171,350 |
| Lucent | $ 203,550 | $ 90,050 | $ 113,500 |
| Motorola | $ 164,663 | $ 57,313 | $ 107,350 |
| Qwest + US West | $ 164,470 | $ 49,100 | $ 115,370 |
| Sprint | $ 150,650 | $ 51,000 | $ 98,650 |
| Alltel Corp | $ 142,154 | $ 60,250 | $ 81,904 |
| AOL | $ 106,500 | $ 47,500 | $ 59,000 |
| Intel | $ 104,726 | $ 28,189 | $ 76,537 |
| Loral Spacecom (parent of CyberStar) | $ 93,000 | $ 75,500 | $ 17,500 |
| Cellular Telecom Industry Association | $ 76,784 | $ 27,900 | $ 48,884 |
| Nortel Networks | $ 75,694 | $ 47,122 | $ 28,572 |
| Gateway | $ 74,361 | $ 29,837 | $ 44,524 |
| Sun Microsystems | $ 70,649 | $ 27,216 | $ 43,433 |
| Qualcomm | $ 53,525 | $ 22,500 | $ 31,025 |
| Teligent | $ 53,250 | $ 26,000 | $ 27,250 |
| Hughes Electronics (General Motors) | $ 52,500 | $ 33,000 | $ 19,500 |
| AirTouch Communications | $ 49,850 | $ 14,600 | $ 35,250 |
| Winstar | $ 49,845 | $ 20,666 | $ 29,179 |
| Comsat Corp | $ 44,180 | $ 19,650 | $ 24,530 |
| Oracle | $ 30,000 | $ 12,000 | $ 18,000 |
| Cable & Wireless USA | $ 29,000 | $ 11,000 | $ 18,000 |
| Hewlett-Packard | $ 27,500 | $ 6,000 | $ 21,500 |
| Covad | $ 17,292 | $ 8,792 | $ 8,500 |
| CompTel | $ 17,000 | $ 9,000 | $ 8,000 |
| Level 3 Communications | $ 14,000 | $ 4,000 | $ 10,000 |
| Nextlink Communications | $ 10,000 | $ 3,000 | $ 7,000 |
| Cincinnati Bell (Broadwing?) | $ 9,000 | $ 2,000 | $ 7,000 |
| Alcatel USA | $ 8,500 | $ 2,500 | $ 6,000 |
| Echostar Communications | $ 8,500 | $ 1,500 | $ 7,000 |
| Compaq | $ 7,750 | $ 4,500 | $ 3,250 |
| Western Wireless Corp | $ 4,000 | $ 1,000 | $ 3,000 |
| ICG Communications | $ 2,500 | $ 1,500 | $ 1,000 |
| GST Telecommunications | $ 2,000 | $ 500 | $ 1,500 |
| Citizens Utilities | $ 1,500 | $ 1000 | $ 500 |
| Internet PAC | $ 1,100 | $ 0 | $ 1,100 |
| RCN | $ 1,000 | $ 500 | $ 500 |
(source: opensecrets.org)
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