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Supreme Court Rules Against Community Telcos

Posted by michael on from the one-phone-company-to-rule-them-all dept.

acherrington writes "Today the Supreme Court ruled against a group of Missouri communities offering telecom services where it is prohibited by Missouri law. At least eight other states -- Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia -- have similar laws. Today's ruling will most likely result in more lobbying by the Baby Bells at the state level to stop community-sponsored telecoms who are fed up with poor service and monopolies."

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  1. Hands OFF! by Doesn't_Comment_Code · · Score: 3, Funny

    Among the industries taken over or overregulated by the Gov:
    Rail Trains
    Pharmacies
    Telecom

    Current status:
    Rail Trains - all but dead
    Pharmacy - corrupt and overpriced
    Telecom - sucks oh so bad

    If only there were a pattern so we could learn something from this.

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  2. Inefficient municipalities by willtsmith · · Score: 4, Funny


    You would think that the Congress of the 90s would be unafraid of small towns starting their own telcos. After all, governement is so "inefficient" in their minds that they couldn't possibly compete with such "efficient" and capable telcos like SBC, MCI and Global Crossing for services like DSL, etc....

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  3. Read the headline as... by kcubkg · · Score: 4, Funny

    I first read the headline as "Supreme Court Rules Against Taco" and thought oh jeez what has he done this time?

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