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Article: L.A. MUST ENSURE OPEN ACCESS TO INTERNET; CABLE COMPANIES' PLANS FOR CLOSED SYSTEM WOULD PULL PLUG ON CHOICE.(VIEWPOINT)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- July 25, 1999
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Byline: Richard Close
LIKE other U.S. cities that are wrestling with the future, Los Angeles has reached a crossroad in charting a telecommunications policy that will greatly impact how each of us taps into the Internet.
At issue is whether consumers will continue to have open access to the Internet via cable facilities - the freedom to choose how to access and use the Internet.
Cable companies are on the verge of offering access to the World Wide Web at incredible speeds over the cable lines that run into our homes and apartments. But in doing so, those same companies want to limit to their own affiliated Internet service providers the ...