How big telecom smothers city-run broadband | Center for Public Integrity
A perfect example of how Corporations keep a strangle hold on the public, giving no ground, while choosing who will benefit from their wares. REALLY?????? Who's country is it anyways?
"Tullahoma is just one battlefront in a nationwide war that the telecommunications giants are fighting against the spread of municipal broadband networks. For more than a decade, AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner Cable Inc., and CenturyLink Inc. have spent millions of dollars to lobby state legislatures, influence state elections and buy research to try to stop the spread of public Internet services that often offer faster speeds at cheaper rates."
