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According to a senior aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the federal government’s economic stimulus package will include investment in broadband Internet infrastructure and funds to upgrade and repair the national power grid alongside more traditional funding for road and bridge repair.

Already incumbents like AT&T are lining up for this money. Please don’t give it to them. That would be a huge mistake, even if conditions such as “net neutrality” are attached to the package. AT&T will just throw lawyers…

The European Commission’s two leading commissioners, Viviane Reding (Telecoms) and Neelie Kroes (Competition) do not agree on functional separation as a driver of more competition in the market for next generation communications services, according to the Financial Times.

The European Commission’s two leading commissioners, Viviane Reding (Telecoms) and Neelie Kroes (Competition) do not agree on functional separation as a driver of more competition in the market for next generation communications services, according to the Financial Times. Regulators in France and Italy…