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Captive Audience

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Captive Audience
AuthorSusan P. Crawford
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherYale University Press
Publication date
2013
Pages360 pp.
ISBN978-0300153132

Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age[1] is an American non-fiction book by the legal expert Susan P. Crawford.[2]

Summary

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It describes high-speed internet access in the United States as essential (like electricity) but currently too slow and too expensive. To enable widespread quality of life and to ensure national competitiveness "most Americans should have access to reasonably priced 1-Gb symmetric fiber-to-the-home networks."[2] Crawford explains why the United States should revise national policy to increase competition in a market currently dominated by Comcast, Verizon Communications, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable.[3] Meanwhile, towns and cities should consider setting up local networks after the example of pioneers such as Lafayette, Louisiana's LUSFiber and Chattanooga, Tennessee's EPB.

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References

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  1. ^ JSTOR
  2. ^ a b Susan P. Crawford (2013), Captive Audience, New Haven: Yale University Press, OL 25356276M
  3. ^ Paul Krugman (February 16, 2014), "Barons of Broadband", New York Times, retrieved February 17, 2014

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