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Death Sentence for Independent ISPs?

jmeissen@aracnet.com
5 Aug 2005 21:47:16 GMT

The FCC just signed a death sentence for local independent ISP's.

http://tinyurl.com/dzhzg

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Verizon Communications (VZ.N: Quote, Profile,
Research) and other U.S. local telephone companies will be freed from
numerous regulations on their high-speed Internet services, the U.S.
Federal Communications Commission decided on Friday.

The agency unanimously agreed to treat the service, known as digital
subscriber line (DSL), as an "information service," which insulates it
from many traditional telephone rules, such as requirements to lease
network access to competitors.

.......

I fail to see how enabling a monopoly reduces prices and improves
service. :-/

John Meissen jmeissen@aracnet.com

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