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Smaller Cable Companies Take Aim at Network Neutrality

Posted by Voiponder Reporter on May 08, 2006

Young, wealthy Internet companies like Google shouldn’t expect to get “special favors” from network operators that have sunk billions of dollars into fiber investments, the head of a smaller cable company said Monday…

“I think what the phone industry’s saying and what we’re saying is we’ve made an investment, and I don’t think the government should be coming and telling us how we can work that infrastructure, simple as that,” Commisso said during a panel discussion about issues faced by companies like his, adding, “Why don’t they go and tell the oil companies what they should charge for their damn gas?”

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