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by Lost_BiomedE 5580 days ago
Telecoms also fought hard to make it illegal for cities to offer ubiquitous broadband for free. It started being a small trend for cities to do this as incentive to live there, but it was quickly squashed.

They also sat on DSL for over a decade until the telecom act of '96 allowed others to roll-out DSL. They finally started to market it themselves when they were forced.