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A Bandwidth Cartel?

By The Daily Dish
Jul 30 2008, 1:24 AM ET

By Patrick Appel
So says Tim Wu:

Americans today spend almost as much on bandwidth -- the capacity to move information -- as we do on energy. A family of four likely spends several hundred dollars a month on cellphones, cable television and Internet connections, which is about what we spend on gas and heating oil.



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