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Seattle is one example of what's going on across the country. Communications is getting so competitive that it makes sense to de-regulate ... but then cities may lose revenue.

“Our view is that incentives for us, as an existing broadband provider with the network and resources already in place to operate in Seattle, would be far less expensive and far faster to market than attempting to create a new telecommunications system,” Comcast Senior Vice President Len Rozek wrote. Qwest wrote that it would prefer that the city let the market for broadband develop in an “open and unfettered environment.”

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