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Re:Chattanooga offers residents lightning-quick connections,... by toomuchtodo on Monday July 21, 2014 @06:28PM (#8066390)
In your comments, you should probably disclose that your previous employer represented/represents Comcast.
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Re:Chattanooga offers residents lightning-quick connections,... by gone35 on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @10:57AM (#8069301)
Indeed [1]: not only Davis Polk & Wardwell happens to "routinely represent Comcast in antitrust aspects and related investigations" [2]; but also he interned for FCC commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker, who was widely criticized for her blatant pro-Comcast decisions --only to be hired afterwards as a Comcast lobbyist herself) [3].

[1] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rayiner-hashem/8/1b5/348

[2] http://www.davispolk.com/practices/litigation/antitrust-and-...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Attwell_Baker

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Re:Chattanooga offers residents lightning-quick connections,... by res0nat0r on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @12:20PM (#8069753)
People keep pointing out "But Google can build gigabit! Why can't Comcast?"

Who he worked for previously doesn't really change the fact that he has pointed out repeatedly that Google Fiber is getting breaks to only build out to rich neighborhoods vs. Comcast having to build out to an entire city, even sections of town which will lose them money.

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