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Friday, September 07, 2001

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Gates Calls For Cut In High-Speed Net Costs
By Jonathan Krim, Washington Post

High-speed Internet access for computer users is too expensive and threatens to limit the adoption of some powerful new services that would be available in the next few years, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said. In an interview Wednesday, Gates urged government policymakers to meet with representatives of the cable and telephone industries to determine what it would take to provide broadband services for $30 a month, instead of the monthly fee of about $50 that consumers pay for access via cable lines or enhanced telephone wiring....

 


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