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FCC chief pushes to protect Net phone services

Keep subscribers free of state rules, taxes, Powell says

By Peter J. Howe
Globe Staff / October 20, 2004

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The nation's top telecommunications regulator said yesterday he will push -- before the next president is inaugurated -- to protect fledgling Internet telephone services from getting taxed and heavily regulated by the 50 state governments. (Full article: 730 words)

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