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How The Bells Stole America's Digital Future
Overview "Bell Atlantic-New Jersey (BA-NJ) has over-earned, under-spent and inequitably deployed advanced telecommunications technology to business customers, while largely neglecting schools and libraries, low-income and residential ratepayers and consumers in Urban Enterprise Zones as well as urban and rural areas." The explosive growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web over the last few years has generated increased interest in making sure that these new services are available to all Americans in their homes and schools. The goal is not only to ensure that all Americans have access, but also to ensure the availability of access over advanced high-speed networks. And if the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) had delivered on the promises they made in the early 1990s, 44 million households–almost half of America's households–and the vast majority of the nation's schools would already be wired with fiber optic networks. Instead, as of January 2000, only about 500,000 households had access to these advanced networks.
| Publisher | NetAction | File Format | HTML |
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| Date Published | August 2003 | Downloads | 3 |
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