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For those of you in BroadNet, we have a similar thing in Canada, works quite well.. Check out CAIP http://www.caip.ca, However, fighting the ILECs is just one of its mandates.. Mark -- Mark Segal Director, Data Services Futureway Communications Inc. Tel: (905)326-1570 > -----Original Message----- > From: Irwin Lazar [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: June 18, 2002 10:22 PM > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: D.C. area based ISP's unite > > > > FYI: > > o ISPs Form DC-based Organization To Battle Large Telecom > Firms Washington, DC -- About 200 Internet service providers > (ISPs) from around the country have formed a new organization > based in Washington DC that will battle against what they > call "monopolistic local telephone companies" regarding the > future deployment of broadband. The new DC-based > organization, called The BroadNet Alliance, plans to lobby > the federal government on behalf of smaller ISPs. "How > America chooses to deploy broadband is one of the most > central policy issues of our time. Though there are many > voices on the traditional long distance, cable and local > telephone sides, the country's independent broadband > providers have lacked a clear voice in the debate," said > Maura Colleton, Executive Director of BroadNet. http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Cpq6WqbWbrenuvtaYoq&FQ
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