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  • What began as a click on a Web site became a national day of action in which local community members from Phoenix, Ariz. to Bridgeport, Conn. marched into their representatives’ local offices and urged them to stand up for better media.

  • WASHINGTON -- Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, has announced that it will impose a monthly cap of 250 GB on its customers' Internet usage.


  • The "Big Three" television networks are keeping their convention coverage limited to prime time, highlighting the sad reality of a corporate media that prefer laugh-tracks and the bottom line to political discourse.

  • WASHINGTON -- Today, the Federal Communications Commission published an enforcement order punishing Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, for blocking Internet users' access to legal online content and services.


  • Obituaries for municipal Wi-Fi are premature. A closer look at what's happening at projects across the country -- public and private, wired and wireless, big and small -- suggests that it's far too early to start the funeral arrangements.

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