Following the implementation of RegFD in the fall of 2000, Boston-based Corporate Communications Broadcast Network (CCBN), Boston's Thomson Financial , a unit of Toronto-based media giant Thomson (nyse: TOC - news - people ), and Maynard, Mass.

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The longer-range solution is for the federal government toc re-purpose unused and underused radio spectrum for mobile broadband purposes.

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What makes this case weird is that CCBN.com's cofounder Jeffrey Parker had a long and amiable relationship with Thomson (nyse: TOC - news - people ).

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