New Ga. Law Creates Telecommunications Network

By Peter West

Thanks to some deft maneuvering by Gov. Zell Miller, Georgia has enacted a law earmarking $50 million to establish an advanced telecommunications network to link rural schools with urban colleges and universities and interconnect the state's hospitals.

The measure "is perhaps one of the most important and far-reaching acts of my administration,'' Governor Miller said last month after approving the bill.

Mr. Miller signed the bill in a hastily arranged ceremony that observers said was an effort to head off any move by the Georgia Public Service Commission...