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February 23rd, 2003

‘Cable/Phone Monopolies Take Aim at Muncipal Fiber’

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Cable/Phone Monopolies Take Aim at Muncipal Fiber In today’s column I suggest that the phone and cable monopolies will do everything communications alternatives. That may include sheer deception, as this report from an Illinois newspaper suggests.- Dan Gillmor’s eJournal.

The TeleRead take: Not that different from copyright extension. If you’re rich enough and you don’t like the rules–well, just come up with enough campaign contributions to change ‘em.

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