Senators Want Probe on Content Blocking

October 26, 2007 By DIBYA SARKAR, AP Business Writer

(AP) -- Two Senators on Friday called for a congressional hearing to investigate reports that phone and cable companies are unfairly stifling communications over the Internet and on cell phones.

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