Comments on: Verizon, Your Hypocrisy is Showing

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Broadband Bill Needs Signature and Funding - GigaOM — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:44:02 +0000

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By: Congress Gets Closer to Forcing a Broadband Census - GigaOM

Congress Gets Closer to Forcing a Broadband Census - GigaOM — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:58:22 +0000

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By: vinnie mirchandani

vinnie mirchandani — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:46:54 +0000

The Gartner report they cite supposedly in their favor also shows that TODAY (not sometime in the promised land of future) the US as ranked a joint 13th with 2 other countries in its list of 17…and the premise of the Verizon blog was to diss a USA Today article which said the US is 15th…joint 13th must be better than 15th, eh :)

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:48:26 +0000

What Verizon should have said was this: “We’re running a business here, and we’ll offer what we want to offer for as long as voters would rather visit Twitter and read Us Weekly than force their representatives to enforce competition in the telecoms market.”

By: phil

phil — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:33:18 +0000

Besides VZ got the attribution wrong – Benjamin Disraeli is credited with the saying – Twain simply borrowed it.