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In the 1990s Covad built the nation's largest digital subscriber line (DSL) network, offering rapid net access, but fell into Chapter 11 and got delisted from Nasdaq.
He and more than a hundred other unhappy Internet addicts convened near Israel's Sea of Galilee last month to flip their digital .subscriber line providers the bird, so to speak.