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To: FJB who wrote (560)6/25/2010 2:39:25 PM
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The Battle Is Raging for Control of the Internet -- and Big Corporations May Come Out on the Losing Side

Fed up with Internet monopoly, cities have begun to take things into their own hands.

June 21, 2010

A battle is raging for control of the Internet and it is not taking place in Washington. Scores of cities, fed up with the recalcitrance and outright arrogance of their providers and Washington’s lack of action are taking their information future into their own hands by building their own high-speed networks. To Harold DePriest, head of Chattanooga’s municipally owned fiber network, currently the largest in the country, the issue is clear: “Does our community control our own fate or does someone else control it?”

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