California tech industry makes itself heard in Legislature

Its clout is evident as it persuades California lawmakers to OK a bill banning PUC regulation of firms, like AT&T, that use the Internet to process phone calls.

SACRAMENTO — California's high-tech industry has been flexing its once-little-used state lobbying muscle like never before, capping efforts on a broad range of topics by winning passage of a bill to ban regulation of companies using the Internet to handle phone calls.

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