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Article: Airing a sensible global telecom policy prescription; Plan could help big telcos, net neutrality backers find common ground.(Column)
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- Network World
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- August 22, 2007
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Byline: Johna Till Johnson
Every now and then, life brings you a pleasant surprise. I got one last week when a senior executive at a telecom equipment
vendor made a prescription for global telecom policy that --drum roll, please -- actually made sense.
Some context: Telecom policy at the moment seems to be considerably more about passion than reason. If you oppose the government
regulation promoted by the net neutrality crowd, you're an evil bigot who wants to deny struggling young companies the chance
to succeed. (Never mind that Google, one of the strongest net neutrality proponents, rightly sees it as a way to barricade
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