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The Quid Pro Quo?

by Dana Blankenhorn
May 11, 2006
in Broadband, Broadband Gap, Communications Policy, Competitive Broadband Fiber, Internet, network neutrality, politics, regulation, Scandal
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For the last several years AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon have gotten anything they wanted from the federal government.

  • They have ignored past promises and refused to deliver more than a trickle of broadband to customers.
  • They have been given a monopoly on DSL, with competitors thrown out by courts and regulators.
  • They have been allowed to merge willy-nilly, putting the old Bell System back together again, this time without regulation.
  • They have been allowed to steal frequencies intended for small businesses through dummy corporations.
  • They have been supported in efforts to blackmail large Web businesses and destroy network neutrality, the guiding principle of the Internet.

Why? Why was this corruption allowed? Why was this theft not checked?

Now we know.

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Tags: broadband policybroadband scandalBush AdministrationNSA scandalphone scandal
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Dana Blankenhorn began his career as a financial journalist in 1978, began covering technology in 1982, and the Internet in 1985. He started one of the first Internet daily newsletters, the Interactive Age Daily, in 1994. He recently retired from InvestorPlace and lives in Atlanta, GA, preparing for his next great adventure. He's a graduate of Rice University (1977) and Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism (MSJ 1978). He's a native of Massapequa, NY.

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Comments 8

  1. Jesse Kopelman says:
    19 years ago

    Just remember that the Clinton administration was in favor of both this sort of NSA spying and uncontested mergers and telco favors. If anything, this lends even more credence to the theory.

    Reply
  2. Jesse Kopelman says:
    19 years ago

    Just remember that the Clinton administration was in favor of both this sort of NSA spying and uncontested mergers and telco favors. If anything, this lends even more credence to the theory.

    Reply
  3. JFKFC says:
    19 years ago

    Uh, yeah right dude. NSA is exec branch and congress is not. And you know how this administration loves to keep the congress updated on its activities — NOT.

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  4. JFKFC says:
    19 years ago

    Uh, yeah right dude. NSA is exec branch and congress is not. And you know how this administration loves to keep the congress updated on its activities — NOT.

    Reply
  5. Michael says:
    19 years ago

    Corruption is not limited to one branch, nor to one party. Yet there it is: quid pro quo.

    Reply
  6. Michael says:
    19 years ago

    Corruption is not limited to one branch, nor to one party. Yet there it is: quid pro quo.

    Reply
  7. Secret says:
    18 years ago

    This is ABSOLUTELY true. That was the deal, unlimited ability to spy on Americans traded for unrestricted monopoly. I heard it from the executive board.

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  8. Secret says:
    18 years ago

    This is ABSOLUTELY true. That was the deal, unlimited ability to spy on Americans traded for unrestricted monopoly. I heard it from the executive board.

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