- TELECOM ACT AFTERWARD: Local phone prices
up 12.1%, cable bills up 32%, CLECs control 6.7% local
market share, satellite services with 12% market share,
170 broadcasters sending digital signals. (USA Today, Feb. 8, 2001).
- TELECOM ACT AFTERWARD: Verizon lost
20% local market share and gained 20% long distance market
share in New York City. (USA Today, Feb. 8, 2001).
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Most common acronyms include DSL (digital subscriber line
service, which is high speed Internet access over telephone
lines); WAN (wide area network connections link different
organizations such as schools across a region); LAN (local
area network connections link computers within an organization)
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