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[Signal to Noise] When I go back to Cleveland, I’ll return to a non-profit, closed access fiber network instead of a private, commercialized network like the one described to me by an attendee from rural North Carolina. I’ll return to a local market that is frankly quite stunted, filled with large swaths of monopolistic regulated ILEC coverage, rather than an area where unbundling is commonplace.

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