The snow last Tuesday in Manhattan couldn't keep them away from the monster bash. Verizon was the monster in question, and about a hundred bashers—small internet service owners and other tech entrepreneurs, lawyers, politicos—came in from the cold to rail against Verizon's shortcomings in providing DSL service. They were also there to complain about the former Bell Atlantic's circumventing of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which turned five years old that week. Happy... More >>>