March 14, 2003

Lighting Up 'Dark Fiber'

By FLORENCE OLSEN

Collapse of telecommunications companies gives colleges rare, cheap opportunity to own networks

Colleges have long complained about being charged what they deem exorbitant

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prices to use the phone companies' networks to get

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