In Defense of Sub-Standard Cell Phone Service: Big Media Gets Rescued -- Again
Huffington Post, February 8, 2011
By Malkia Cyril
If the ethos of America is about removing unfair barriers to individual opportunity and success, then it is un-American to give low-income communities substandard Internet service that creates barriers to economic opportunity and democratic engagement. Still, Metro PCS is doing just that -- offering a cell phone package to poor people that is only affordable because it contains significant roadblocks to full Internet access.
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