Thursday, May 04, 2006

Telcos Blitz Washington in Million-Dollar Campaign



Via SaveThe Internet.com.

The cable and phone lobby is bombarding Washington with the TV ads urging Congress to support their plans to seize control of the Internet.

According to an investigation by Jeff Chester, the industry is spending $1 million a week on ads and lobbying to woo our elected officials to vote with AT&T and Verizon, and against the best interests of their constituents.

“Companies such as Qwest, Comcast, Time Warner, and AT&T want to be broadband barons,” Chester writes, “with all other content providers and users reduced to serving as merely consuming digital surfs.”

More here.

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