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SBC forcing new contract on ISPs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher A. Woodfield)
Mon Jun 25 14:11:18 2001

Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 14:07:05 -0400
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http://sanfrancisco.bcentral.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2001/06/18/story3.html

If I'm reading this correctly, SBC is forcing ISPs that resell SBC's DSL 
access to go with PPPoE over ATM, thus potentially forcing businesses to 
buy DSL net access from SBC directly.

Am I way off base? Anyone know more about this situation who can comment?

-C

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