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The big city library as Internet provider

As our Brian Fung detailed last week, some of the United States’ bigger urban library systems have begun lodging a public protest against the formula federal rulemakers are considering for the distribution of billions of dollars for wireless Internet infrastructure. The Federal Communications Commission is thinking of divvying up so-called E-Rate funds to libraries based on square footage rather than users or some other metric, a calculation that city libraries argue gives an unfair advantage to their more sprawling suburban counterparts.

By Nancy Scola

Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/07/07/the-big-city-library-as-internet-provider/

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