[45752] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: via the IP list...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fletcher E Kittredge)
Fri Feb 15 07:28:17 2002
Message-Id: <200202151227.g1FCRdO22195@valen.gwi.net>
To: bmanning@karoshi.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, legal@gwi.net
Reply-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Feb 2002 23:02:20 GMT."
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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 07:27:39 -0500
From: Fletcher E Kittredge <fkittred@gwi.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 23:02:20 +0000 (UCT) bmanning@karoshi.com wrote:
> http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174510.html
>
> The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today said it has tentatively
> concluded that broadband Internet access provided over phone lines
> constitutes an "information service," and as such may not be subject to the
> open-access rules that govern the nation's phone networks.
>
> While the text of today's "notice of proposed rulemaking" probably won't be
> made publicly available for a couple days, the FCC signaled that it intends
> to remove some of the regulatory fetters that dictate how the nation's four
> Bell phone giants offer broadband services.
http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/News_Releases/2002/nrcc0202.html
Here is the text of the FCC press release. For details, it is
important to follow the links to the individual comments by individual
commissioners.
regards,
fletcher
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Fletcher Kittredge
Great Works Internet
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Biddeford, ME 04005-9457
