Telecom giants seeking to redline the poor

Few companies are better at making me violently angry than Verizon; little wonder, then, that they're joining SBC in lobbying for the right to exclude poor, largely minority communities from the digital millennium.

The telecom giants are lobbying for the right to roll out advanced digital TV and broadband services only in the most upscale of zip codes. This is in stark contrast to the decades-long policy tradition of universal telecommunications services.

Shame on both companies, and props to the late Delores Tucker for a thought-provoking article.