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  • Open Wireless ... the Answer to Everything?

    Wally Bowen
    May 21, 2012

    Once upon a time, Internet enthusiasts made the following comparison: The Internet is to 21st-century economies what navigable waterways and roads were to 19th- and 20th-century economies.

  • Rural America's stake in "Net Neutrality"

    Wally Bowen
    October 21, 2009

    The current battle over net neutrality has deep roots, oddly enough, in rural America. In 1891, a Kansas undertaker named Almon Strowger patented the first telephone switch. His innovation, he would later say, was compelled by a local telephone operator who limited calls to his business while favoring calls to his competitor, with whom she was romantically involved.

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