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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.
Andrew Leonard Oct 25, 2007
3Com: I think I'm turning Chinese
Its Silicon Valley glory days long gone, the telecommunications firm kowtows to the inevitable.
Andrew Leonard Sep 28, 2007
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.
By Eric Boehlert Aug 6, 2001
Qwest slams Peter Pan
A case of mistaken identity exposes how a long-distance telephone company is targeting Asian immigrants.
By Deborah Scoblionkov Oct 16, 2000
Busy signal
Telecommunications behemoths throw a wrench into the plans of Internet phone providers -- and you'll be the one stuck with the bill.
By Jake Tapper Jun 14, 2000
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.
By Tony Wheeler Nov 10, 1999
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.
By Janelle Brown Oct 7, 1999
Hands off whose Net?
A new series of television ads warns of the dangers of Internet regulation. The real story: Telecom industry bickering.
By Andrew Leonard Jul 19, 1999
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.
By Scott Rosenberg Jan 20, 1999
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.
By Mark Schapiro Dec 8, 1998
21st
The Net becomes WorldCom's fiefdom
By Scott Rosenberg Oct 9, 1997
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