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    <title>How Big Telecom Used Smartphones to Create a New Digital Divide - COLORLINES</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-20T16:58:33+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><dc:subject>telecom deskilling race digitaldivide mobile</dc:subject>
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    <title>ERS Measuring Rurality: 2004 County Typology Codes</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-08T15:52:33+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We used these USDA measure in the NTIA broadband competition study.]]></description>
<dc:subject>rural usda demographics telecom</dc:subject>
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    <title>Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-08T15:51:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.census.gov/population/www/metroareas/metroarea.html</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Census Bureau explains their definitions for urban areas on this page.]]></description>
<dc:subject>reference census msa telecom</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-05T11:56:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://yupnet.org/zittrain/</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Zittrain's new book on Internet law and policy is available online with a Creative-Commons license. This site presents the book in an interesting hypertext format that allows readers to comment on specific passages.]]></description>
<dc:subject>CreativeCommons telecom Web2.0 publicpolicy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1270">
    <title>Freedom to Tinker: Comcast and BitTorrent: Why You Can’t Negotiate with a Protocol</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-31T03:05:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1270</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The problem is that you can’t negotiate with a protocol, for the same reason that you can’t negotiate with (say) the English language. You can use the language to negotiate with someone, but you can’t have a negotiation where the other party is the]]></description>
<dc:subject>bittorrent publicpolicy telecom p2p</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:4b32004f77fa/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>Portfolio: Comcast F.C.C. Hearing Strategy</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-26T22:18:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/top-5/2008/02/26/Comcast-FCC-Hearing-Strategy</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The cable operator paid people off the street to pack an FCC hearing on its network discrimination practices, keeping critics and activists from attending or speaking at the hearing.]]></description>
<dc:subject>networkneutrality telecom cable FCC astroturf</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:6da0ea56c45a/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>Economist.com: Telex | A faint ping</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-07T01:26:34+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Economist discusses the odd enduring power of the teletype.]]></description>
<dc:subject>oldmedia telecom history</dc:subject>
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    <dc:date>2008-02-03T03:55:36+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here's an informative discussion, including maps, of the severed submarine cables that have left users across the Middle East and Asia without access to the Internet.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This article lists "those groups whose interests always seem to run counter to those of technology companies and consumers."]]></description>
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    <title>Techdirt: Exploiting Telco Regulations For Free Calls And For Profit</title>
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    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Free conference call services were "exploiting some legacy telco regulations, that were officially designed to help rural telcos get extra money to build out more rural service."]]></description>
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    <title>The Sound of Crickets Chirping: Problems for Texas Startups</title>
    <dc:date>2007-10-02T13:20:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cricketschirping.com/weblog/?p=1100</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sean McCullough suggests that because Austin Ventures is the only major VC organization in Texas, smaller and more interesting startups are stymied in Austin and Texas.]]></description>
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    <title>xkcd: The Electromagnetic Spectrum</title>
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    <link>http://xkcd.com/c273.html</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If you have not yet seen this comic, you must.]]></description>
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    <title>Network World FAQ: Vonage’s latest blow explained</title>
    <dc:date>2007-04-07T18:44:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/040607-faq-vonage.html?fsrc=netflash-rss</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Verizon is suing Vonage for patent infringement, leading to an injunction against Vonage signing up new customers. Although the injunction was lifted, it's clear that Verizon is using patents to broadly protect its business.]]></description>
<dc:subject>telecom intellectualproperty patents VoIP</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:4766b43c2da8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.idl.dundee.ac.uk/moli/exhibits.html">
    <title>The Museum of Lost Interaction... Exhibits</title>
    <dc:date>2007-02-15T15:15:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.idl.dundee.ac.uk/moli/exhibits.html</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This art project depicts fictitious obsolete technologies. It's pretty slick, but I have to say that there are plenty of old forgotten technologies that are just as weird.]]></description>
<dc:subject>media telecom art</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.inveneo.org/?q=Thumbdrive">
    <title>Thumb Drive Drive</title>
    <dc:date>2007-01-03T20:22:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.inveneo.org/?q=Thumbdrive</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Inveneo.org, which does telecom development work in Africa is collecting new and used USB flash drives for use in their training programs.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Africa telecom neato</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:e33f72fa8ef9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/index.html">
    <title>Moyers on America: The Net @ Risk</title>
    <dc:date>2006-10-20T17:38:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/index.html</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Our state media was nice enough to put Bill Moyers' special on network neutrality in full online. (via donturn)]]></description>
<dc:subject>networkneutrality telecom publicpolicy TVontheWeb FCC</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:584df03070b5/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2006/09/02/GA2006090201125_index_frames.htm?startat=undefined">
    <title>Telecom Change, Amish/Mennonite-Style</title>
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    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Washington Post photo essay showing DIY telephone booths constructed after Verizon ripped the payphones out of the Amish country. When I lived in Philadelphia, I saw plenty of Amish-looking folks talking on cell phones...]]></description>
<dc:subject>telecom oldmedia religion Pennsylvania DIY</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:5c29b854602e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.municonsortium.com/news/pioneer_041805.html">
    <title>Muni Consortium - Tiny Windom leads race to a faster Web</title>
    <dc:date>2006-08-15T17:51:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.municonsortium.com/news/pioneer_041805.html</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Windom, Minnesota – the small town where my dad went to high school – rolled out a municipal 100mbps fiber-optic network last year to serve the town and surrounding farms.]]></description>
<dc:subject>telecom utilities minnesota awesome</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:76cc342fa532/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/ideastour/technology/">
    <title>The Atlantic Ideas Tour: Technology and Innovation</title>
    <dc:date>2006-08-09T20:56:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/ideastour/technology/</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To commemorate its 150th anniversary, the magazine has uploaded several articles about emerging technologies by famous writers, including Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" and piece by Mark Twain about the telephone.]]></description>
<dc:subject>oldmedia history magazine telecom</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:dbeefe3d6728/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:telecom"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060803/0034240.shtml">
    <title>How About Shaming Telcos Into Remaining Neutral?</title>
    <dc:date>2006-08-03T17:41:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://techdirt.com/articles/20060803/0034240.shtml</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A new technology enables users to test the relative neutrality of an ISP, opening the possibility of shaming telcos into operating neutral networks.]]></description>
<dc:subject>networkneutrality hack telecom activism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:60391ee503de/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:hack"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&amp;askthisid=00219">
    <title>Why is Congress considering such anti-consumer telecom bills?</title>
    <dc:date>2006-07-26T18:57:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&amp;askthisid=00219</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This article details some of the issues at stake for the telecom companies with the new round of regulation in Congress. I was not aware of the issues surrounding the Universal Service Fund.]]></description>
<dc:subject>telecom networkneutrality publicpolicy astroturf business</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:68afc58d2edf/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:publicpolicy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:astroturf"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/30304">
    <title>Boiling the Frog – a Net Neutrality Metaphor</title>
    <dc:date>2006-05-31T23:26:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/30304</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This article provides useful insights into the political strategies behind the telco's efforts to implement network discrimination.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics publicpolicy telecom networkneutrality</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:78124f8836cb/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://feeds.feedburner.com/arstechnica/BAaf?m=2669">
    <title>US Government hangs up on Spanish-American War</title>
    <dc:date>2006-05-26T22:54:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/arstechnica/BAaf?m=2669</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The ancient tax on long-distance calls has been repealed. It was first levvied to finance the Spanish-American War.]]></description>
<dc:subject>imperialism history oldmedia telecom</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:d1fdb32d9bd5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:oldmedia"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70944-0.html">
    <title>Wired News: Whistle-Blower's Evidence, Uncut</title>
    <dc:date>2006-05-22T14:23:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70944-0.html</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The internet news site has published 30 pages of documents that detail AT&T's compliance with the NSA's domestic spying program. These are under seal in the EFF's litigation against AT&T, but I'm glad they're out in the open.]]></description>
<dc:subject>news telecom nsa surveillance</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:d42b15e97cac/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:telecom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:nsa"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:surveillance"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/357">
    <title>A 2006 Campaign Ad</title>
    <dc:date>2006-05-18T18:53:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/357</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The telco lobby is considering running ads using the threat of child predators to spread FUD about network neutrality. Too bad the Christian Coalition has come out in support of neutrality.]]></description>
<dc:subject>lies telecom politics networkneutrality</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:ee5318624501/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/008484.php">
    <title>Talking Points Memo: phone companies are spooky places ...</title>
    <dc:date>2006-05-17T21:12:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/008484.php</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A TPM reader describes his experience working at a Bell. It doesn't surprise me that intelligence folks are experts in data management and mining, but it's icky the RBOCs would be so buddy-buddy with the intelligence world.]]></description>
<dc:subject>power telecom surveillance</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:9ab25d2a3f14/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:telecom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:surveillance"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/179">
    <title>Public Knowledge - A Very Dispiriting Day</title>
    <dc:date>2006-04-07T04:15:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/179</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The House Telecom Commitee resoundingly rejected maintaining network neutrality in a vote today. Democrats were as bad as Republicans at giving handouts to major telcos.]]></description>
<dc:subject>networkneutrality telecom politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:0addb1e8c0ca/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:telecom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:politics"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.networkingpipeline.com/blog/archives/2006/03/fcc_chief_att_c.html">
    <title>FCC Chief: AT&amp;T Can Limit Net Bandwidth</title>
    <dc:date>2006-03-23T21:07:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.networkingpipeline.com/blog/archives/2006/03/fcc_chief_att_c.html</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Blog post says that Kevin Martin has come out in favor of network discrimination, allowing AT&T and other to charge Google, Vonage, and others for traffic on their networks.]]></description>
<dc:subject>networkneutrality publicpolicy telecom FCC</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:d3e89dddb9e6/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:publicpolicy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:telecom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:FCC"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://blog.tomevslin.com/2006/03/att_is_ripping_.html">
    <title>AT&amp;T is Ripping Off American Soldiers</title>
    <dc:date>2006-03-12T23:53:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.tomevslin.com/2006/03/att_is_ripping_.html</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[AT&T bars soldiers in Iraq from using cheaper prepaid phone cards and engaging in other shenanigans, according to this blog post. Way to support the troops, Ma Bell.]]></description>
<dc:subject>telecom telephony war stupid</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:556abc819ed2/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:telephony"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:war"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:stupid"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=986">
    <title>Freedom to Tinker  » Blog Archive   » Nuts and Bolts of Net Discrimination, Part 2</title>
    <dc:date>2006-03-08T04:49:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=986</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ed Felten explains how the Net Discrimination scheme proposed by major ISPs might be implemented.]]></description>
<dc:subject>networkneutrality telecom publicpolicy</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:e0e6cf46ed9a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:telecom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:publicpolicy"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.dslforum.org/aboutdsl/adsl_tutorial.html">
    <title>ADSL Tutorial</title>
    <dc:date>2006-03-07T22:45:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.dslforum.org/aboutdsl/adsl_tutorial.html</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Found this in the undergrad "New Communication Technology" class when a student asked about DSL on twisted pair.]]></description>
<dc:subject>DSL telecom</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:41e6da9fedd5/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:DSL"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:telecom"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.porticus.org/bell/bellopercomp.html">
    <title>Bell Operating Companies</title>
    <dc:date>2006-03-06T15:03:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.porticus.org/bell/bellopercomp.html</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Via Bruce Sterling, scroll down to see a map of the original RBOC operating regions. Who knew there was a Cincinnati Bell?]]></description>
<dc:subject>oldmedia telecom business</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:fca9fc7bc104/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:oldmedia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:telecom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:business"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.mediageek.net/?p=1358">
    <title>mediageek » Recreating a Monopoly</title>
    <dc:date>2006-03-06T01:09:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mediageek.net/?p=1358</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Paul's perspective on the imminent merger of AT&T (nee SBC) and RBOC Bell South.]]></description>
<dc:subject>telecom politicaleconomy</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:b0214f982329/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:telecom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:politicaleconomy"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.retrofone.com/index.php">
    <title>retrofone.com: yesterday's connectivity today</title>
    <dc:date>2006-02-05T04:39:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.retrofone.com/index.php</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Company sells ancient cellphone models for collectors and compatibility]]></description>
<dc:subject>oldmedia telecom geek</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:cd5444ca5035/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:oldmedia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:telecom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:geek"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.livescience.com/technology/060131_western_union.html">
    <title>Era Ends: Western Union Stops Sending Telegrams</title>
    <dc:date>2006-02-04T00:51:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.livescience.com/technology/060131_western_union.html</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><dc:subject>telecom oldmedia end-of-life</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/b:5e2ab7597039/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:oldmedia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:McChris/t:end-of-life"/>
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