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Analysis: Building the Digital Superhighway

Authored by Paul Sweeting on April 3, 2008 - 6:17am.
Verizon chairman/CEO Ivan Seidenberg is a smart man, working his way up from splicing line to running one of the world's biggest telecommunications companies. But he needs to brush up on his American history. Accepting the Digital Patriot Award from the Consumer Electronics Assn. last night, Seidenberg lauded the "unprecedented" progress being made in the U.S. in building out broadband networks, nearly all of it accomplished with private capital investment. The only projects of comparable scope and speed, he maintained, were construction of the Interstate Highway system and the Apollo space program, "both of which required billions of dollars of taxpayer money."
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