David Stehlin's 75-year-old mother complains about her dial-up Internet connection and wants a cable modem. "That, to me, says telecom is pervasive," concludes Stehlin, an industry veteran and chief executive officer of Princeton, N.J.—based fiber optics supplier One Path Networks. Stehlin likes to hand it to the proverbial telecom revolution for growing as quickly as it has since the dawning of the flawed, yet functional,Telecommunications Act of 1996, which was designed to deregulate the local telephone industry. He is struck by how convincingly we've grown dependent on broad-hand technology in just a few short years.
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