Article: PROMOTE JOBS BY LIFTING PHONE PRICE MANDATES.(OPINION)(GUEST COLUMN)(Column)

Byline: Ann L. Crump

Who isn't familiar with the wonders of telecommunications? Blazing-fast Internet connections. Wireless phones and computers. The ability to choose competing companies and technologies to deliver service over wires into your house.

Making such whiz-bang technologies possible is an often overlooked marvel predating the Web. That marvel has existed since Alexander Graham Bell first called his colleague, Mr. Watson. That marvel is the telecom worker. But in Wisconsin, in the name of fat profits, out-of-state companies want to pull the plug on family-supporting Wisconsin telecom jobs.

At issue are government-mandated, below-cost wholesale rates SBC ...

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