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The Telecom Digest for Sun, 04 Jul 2021
Volume 40 : Issue 185 : "text" format

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Oregon High Court Rejects CenturyLink Unit's Property Tax Appeal
AT&T Has DC Pushing The Idea That 'Big Tech' Should Give 'Big Telecom' Billions For No Coherent Reason
Who Owns The Global Internet?

Message-ID: <20210703160006.412FC73C@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2021 16:00:06 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Oregon High Court Rejects CenturyLink Unit's Property Tax Appeal By Sam McQuillan The Oregon Supreme Court has rejected a CenturyLink subsidiary's property tax appeal, ruling that a lower court correctly assessed the difference between the company's value and the value of property under its control. https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report-state/oregon-high-court-rejects-centurylink-units-property-tax-appeal
Message-ID: <20210703161129.36B9473C@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2021 16:11:29 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: AT&T Has DC Pushing The Idea That 'Big Tech' Should Give 'Big Telecom' Billions For No Coherent Reason from the we've-been-over-this dept By Karl Bode Last month we noted how FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr had taken to Newsweek to dust off a fifteen year old AT&T talking point. Namely that "big tech" companies get a "free ride" on telecom networks, and, as a result, should throw billions of dollars at "big telecom" for no real reason. You'll recall it was this kind of argument that launched the net neutrality debate, when former AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre proclaimed that Google wouldn't be allowed to "ride his pipes for free." Whitacre was effectively arguing that in addition to paying him a premium for bandwidth, tech giants should pay him a troll toll. You know, just because. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210629/08535647083/att-has-dc-pushing-idea-that-big-tech-should-give-big-telecom-billions-no-coherent-reason.shtml
Message-ID: <20210703160516.5AE9C73C@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2021 16:05:16 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Who Owns The Global Internet? The Internet is the most important service in the world with billions of users. But who exactly owns the Internet? Over the past two decades, the internet has grown and expanded to become a radically different version of its humble original. Understanding what the internet is and how it works can be extremely confusing. https://vnreview.vn/tin-tuc-xa-hoi-so/-/view_content/content/3480982/ai-dang-so-huu-internet-mang-toan-cau (Translated from Vietnamese by Google Translate -Mod)

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