Net neutrality 'bad idea and bad for the industry' says AT&T CEO

Charlee Gothard
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Tim Berners-Lee doesn't agree with you, Randall

AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson has called net neutrality, and the recent specific US laws made up around it, "a bad idea and bad for the industry". The telco industry calls non-neutrality of the ...

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