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Thursday, February 28, 2002
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000015111feb28.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology House Passes Broadband Access Bill - Legislation: Measure would remove requirements that Baby Bells open their networks to rivals. JUBE SHIVER Jr., TIMES STAFF WRITER WASHINGTON -- The House on Wednesday approved a controversial measure that frees the regional Bell telephone companies from having to share their high-speed data wires with rivals--a reform backers say will encourage the phone giants to more aggressively roll out faster Internet access. The 273-157 vote approving the Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act of 2001 was a victory for the so-called Baby Bells, which argued that expanding high-speed Internet access, or broadband, will help boost the recovering U.S. economy and enable consumers and businesses to watch videos online, download large files or even undergo data-intensive medical diagnoses....
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