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Suck It, Telecoms! Public Broadband Gets Reprieve in North Carolina

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. May 6, 2009.
Legislators put on ice a bill that would have crippled municipal broadband projects.

Fake Consumer Rights Group Says Getting Ripped-Off for Internet Use Is Good For You

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 23, 2009.
A shill group is taking up the fight to legitimize attempt by cable giants AT&T and Time Warner to price-gouge for Internet service.

Cable Giants Continue Hoping No One Will Notice Their Attempts to Destroy the Internet

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 22, 2009.
Despite Time Warner's epic fail with metered billing, AT&T has refused to abandon its usage caps program -- and the AT&T version is even worse.

5 Great Progressive Moves by Obama That You Might Have Missed

Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet. February 20, 2009.
Here are five significant under-the-radar things to be grateful for in the post-Bush era.

Rural America Is Being Left off the Information Superhighway

Steve Early, The Nation. May 19, 2007.
Verizon's proposed plan of a $2.7 billion transfer of local access lines to FairPoint Communications -- a small, largely nonunion North Carolina firm -- is part of a nationwide trend toward rural telecom redlining.

A new option makes DSL and cable look like chopped liver

Heather Gehlert, AlterNet: PEEK. February 4, 2007.
Heather Gehlert: Think DSL and cable have the market sewn up? Think again.