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Bob Master

Bob Master

  • Further Deregulation of 5G Technology Won’t Close the Digital Divide

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    Broadband for All (photo: Phillip Kamrass/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo)


    Just before the new year, a representative of a little-known telecommunications infrastructure company, Crowne Castle, made the case in an op-ed at Gotham Gazette that the key to closing the digital divide in New York State is more deregulation.

    No one would disagree with the author’s assessment of the underlying problem: the pandemic confirmed, in

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