Mediagazer: Telecom's Big Players Hold Back the Future (David Carr/New York Times)

7:05 AM ET, May 21, 2013

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David Carr / New York Times:

Telecom's Big Players Hold Back the Future — If you were going to look for ground zero in the fight against a rapidly consolidating telecom and cable industry, you might end up on the fifth floor of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. — Susan Crawford, a professor at the school …

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