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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

We should look to other models. Consumers in South Korea and Japan can get broadband speeds reaching 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) for less than the monthly price a U.S. Deregulation has produced monopolistic practices that have resulted in higher prices for consumers and slowed the deployment of competitive networks.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Although many platform companies such as Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb have claimed credit for advancing a sharing economy—the preferred term for which is now solidarity economy —model, they don’t in fact fall under that category, because they seek to extract maximum profits from their operations.

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