Verizon-Pushed WiFi Bill Becomes Law in PA

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 1, 2004 @10:31AM from the how-a-bill-becomes-a-law-directors-cut dept.

Cryofan writes "A Wall Street Journal article (via freepress) tells the sad tale of how legislation barring PA municipalities from offering paid telecom services was signed into law. 'Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell said late Tuesday night that he had signed into law a large telecommunications bill placing severe restrictions on the ability of cities and towns to offer telecommunications services, an item that was heavily lobbied by Verizon Communications Inc. and other big telephone companies in similar legislation across the country.'" (Also mentioned last week.)

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Re:Big Ed by Doc+Ruby · 2004-12-01 10:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Anonymous fascist Coward. What, you work for Verizon?

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Re:Typical by dsanfte · 2004-12-01 11:42 · Score: 0, Offtopic

MBps = MegaBYTES per second
Mbps = MegaBITS per second

Which did you mean? They aren't the same.

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