A good resource (Score 3, Interesting)

This topic was covered on PBS' NOW program last weekend.

http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcriptNOW108 _full.html

Short version: Corporations are trying to pass laws restricting what duly-elected officials can do (viz, starting up wireless public networks), EVEN AFTER they have refused invitations to provide the service. (There's a story in the program about a small town that no company would serve, despite being asked, and how the town council did it themselves... and then the telecoms went to the statehouse to try and make what the council did illegal. Interesting.)