Content has trumped traditional telecommunications technology, for now.

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The blogs had a field day on Monday with the question of whether Google's plan to stash its content close to the telecommunications networks violates its support for one of theological underpinnings of the Internet age, namely net neutrality.

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While the ETNO does not deny that it believes that the way that content providers use the internet should be changed, it stopped short of calling for an actual tax, saying instead that it wants telecommunications network operators to consider making deals with content providers.

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People willingly pay this money to a handful of telecommunications companies, but pay nothing for the news content they receive as a result, whose continued survival is generally agreed to be a fundamental plank of democracy.

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The Web companies also face a civil lawsuit filed by a citizen, with almost identical accusations to the criminal case, and pressure from the telecommunications ministry to monitor their sites proactively, with an eye toward removing offensive content.

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Iran announced in March 2011 that it was funding a multimillion-dollar project to build an Iranian intranet a necessity, its telecommunications ministry said, to offer Iranians an alternative to the un-Islamic and corrupt content on the World Wide Web.

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Omar Khan, the strategy chief for Samsung Telecommunications, said mobile devices will be more valuable in the 3-D space as a way to capture content in that format, rather than to view it.

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