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11-24-08, 10:10 AM
WASHINGTON -- The drive for a national broadband strategy just got a new wrinkle. How about an entirely new question for the debate over broadband access? What if the individual subscriber were brought into the ownership equation? Columbia University law professor Tim Wu and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) policy analyst Derek Slater are proposing just that: a new model where each household could own its Internet connection. Not just pay for the service, but actually own the fiber that comes to the home. The ...

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