Telecommunications

America's broadband shame
The U.S. continues to fall behind other nations in providing fast Internet access to all its citizens. The good news: We're saving rural America from smut overload.
3Com: I think I'm turning Chinese
Its Silicon Valley glory days long gone, the telecommunications firm kowtows to the inevitable.
The Media Borg's man in Washington
FCC chairman Michael Powell, Colin's smooth, ambitious son, has never met a media merger he didn't like.
Qwest slams Peter Pan
A case of mistaken identity exposes how a long-distance telephone company is targeting Asian immigrants.
Busy signal
Telecommunications behemoths throw a wrench into the plans of Internet phone providers -- and you'll be the one stuck with the bill.
Weirdly wired world
Why is a Turkish village more connected than a Japanese megalopolis? Lonely Planet's peripatetic founder celebrates and laments the state of global communications.
Talkin 'bout a revolution
RCN, the up-and-coming fiber optic network, tries -- a little too hard -- to get us to think of it as a telecom revolutionary.
Hands off whose Net?
A new series of television ads warns of the dangers of Internet regulation. The real story: Telecom industry bickering.
Let's Get This Straight: A corporate game of Internet Monopoly
@Home's purchase of Excite poses a new challenge to AOL and leaves Microsoft on the sidelines -- for now.
Internet activism, Czech-style
Internet activism, Czech-style: By Mark Schapiro. The Communists are yesterday's target -- today, it's the phone company's Net-access rate hikes.
21st
The Net becomes WorldCom's fiefdom

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