But as technology counter-measures become increasingly expensive and ineffective, governments from the UN down to local public utility regulators have been forced to show their true hand in bolder efforts to wrest control and revenue from within the Internet ecosystem.

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One of the most important inputs to the production of broadband networks is rights of way permission to dig up public streets and attach cables to public utility poles which in most cases are under the control of local governments.

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