[Air-l] Net protests mount in Ireland

[jeremy hunsinger]

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> TELECOM-CITIES Digest for Monday, November 04, 2002.
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> 1. Net protests mount in Ireland
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> Subject: Net protests mount in Ireland
> From: Berquist at uts.cc.utexas.edu
> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 16:00:10 -0600 (CST)
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2377447.stm
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> Monday, 4 November, 2002, 09:27 GMT
> Net protests mount in Ireland
>
> By Jane Wakefield
> BBC News Online technology staff
>
> Consumers are fed up with paying per minute for net services in 
> Ireland and
> urgent action needs to be taken if the so-called Celtic Tiger is to 
> stay
> competitive, say critics.
>
> Both IrelandOffline, a campaign group lobbying for unmetered net 
> access, and
> telecom operators desperate to introduce new services to their 
> customers, want
> to see radical changes soon.
jeremy hunsinger
jhuns at vt.edu
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www.cddc.vt.edu
www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy
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