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Verizon CEO: We've Never Provided 'Dumb Pipes'

By Sean Michael Kerner
October 22, 2009

Ivan Seidenberg, chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications, isn't a big fan of network neutrality. But he is a strong proponent of broadband networks -- and of their owners taking an active hand in shaping the Net's future.

In fact, to Seidenberg, carriers like Verizon play a major role in innovation in large part because the network isn't simply a "dumb pipe".

The phrase is something of a loaded term for followers of the Net neutrality debate, and for Seidenberg, it and other terms used in the network neutrality debate are troubling.

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