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Article: Craigslist Asks for Open Access in San Francisco; Urges Shift From Traditional Cable Providers That are a Monopoly.
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- Business Wire
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- July 26, 1999
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 1999--
Cable companies should embrace an open access model for Internet access to their cable systems, urges the founder of craigslist.org, a modest community Web site serving tens of thousands of people in the new media industry in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Craig Newmark, a software engineer and founder of craigslist.org, feels that any qualified Internet service provider should be able to use cable systems to provide Internet access.
In a brief statement to the SF Board of Supervisors entitled, "Craigslist.org on the Open Access Cable Issue in SF," Newmark makes a recommendation for open access and ...