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On the recordMarch 20, 2012
the vision of the landmark 1996 Telecommunications Act was that the phone companies and cable companies would, for the first time, compete with each other in each other's markets.
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Herb Kohl
Democratic · Wisconsin

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Kohl discusses the intended competition between phone and cable companies from the 1996 Act.

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