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Open Access
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The controversy over open access appears to be heating up, as more telecommunications companies bring cable Internet access online. The professional organization, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, has published a short, but interesting article on this controversy, available at www.cpsr.org/
cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/web/current-highbandwidth.html. Another good summary of the case for open access is available from the Consumer Federation of America at www.consumerfed.org/broadbandaccess.pdf. You can find additional information at the No Gatekeepers Web site, www.nogatekeepers.org. For the other side of the issue, you might connect to news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-852114.html and read the CNET News article, "Groups Bristle at FCC Report on High-Speed Net." You can also find the text of a speech by AT&T chairman C. Michael Armstong that addresses the open access issue at www.att.com/speeches/98/981102.maa.html. For current updates, enter "open access" or "AT&T TCI" into any search engine.
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openNET Coalition   An Internet service provider industry group, the openNET Coalition has members throughout the U.S. and Canada. Their core argument for open access is that "competition among Internet service providers over last mile broadband networks will lower prices, spur innovation, and advance the social and economic benefits of the Internet."

Cyber Guru Favors Regulated Open Access   The open access issue has being argued in Congress in two Senate committees as part of hearings on the AOL-Time Warner and AT&T-TCI mergers. Professor Lawrence Lessig, of Harvard University and the Microsoft antitrust case fame, favors some kind of regulatory policy.
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