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Almost every month, a new telecommunications innovation is launched that has a profound impact on our lives.

Lately we’ve seen the impact of these telecommunication changes in ways we never could have imagined. In past months we’ve witnessed the Egyptian government being toppled by citizens using their cell phones to organize mass rallies and send videos of shocking violence against the demonstrators around the world. And in just recent days we learned it was through sophisticated tracking of a cell phone that led our soldiers to Osama bin Laden’s doorstep in Pakistan. In both cases, a broadband wireline network infrastructure transported these important communications and changed history.

Nearly every day, billions of citizens around the globe are using their telephones, both land line and mobile, in ordinary and extraordinary ways, empowering them to do new and different things. This is possible because their governments have made access to t! elecommunications a priority.

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