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[Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>]

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Phillip Rhodes wrote:
> Let the telecom companies compete
> on their own merits... if citizens in rural areas want to voluntarily
> fund improvements to their infrastructure in order to attract
> businesses, that's fine... but why not let them form a voluntarily
> funded, non-profit coop in order to do it.

And if citizens in a municipality find that the telcoms are not meeting
their needs, should the not be able to provide those services
collectively through their municipal government?  Why should the General
Assembly enact a law that /prohibits/ competition?

TaB

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