OpenLeft.com, April 15, 2008
By Matt Stoller

I've written a fair amount about corruption and the telecom lobby. One of the nastiest tricks the telecoms use is the notion of universal buildout to grab subsidies and then not do the buildout, which of course creates the need for more subsidies to do universal buildout. It's a neat trick.

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