[81773] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC to probe DSL regulations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Jun 29 12:39:03 2005
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:03:40 GMT."
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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:38:32 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In message <20050629.090343.4600.276066@webmail28.lax.untd.com>, =
"Fergie (Paul
Ferguson)" writes:
>
>
>Via Red Herring:
>
>"Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the cable operators=92 right=
=
to bar c
>ompetitors from their lines, the U.S. Federal Communications =
Commission is tak
>ing up the obvious question of whether the same rules should apply to =
telephon
>e companies that sell DSL service."
>
>http://www.redherring.com/article.aspx?a=3D12580
>
=46rom today's Wall Street Journal:
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin plans to act as =
quickly as possible to change the agency's rules so phone companies =
won't be required to share their Internet lines with rivals.
"We'll need to move quickly to establish regulatory parity between =
telephone companies and cable companies that are providing a broadband =
service," Mr. Martin said in an interview yesterday, a day after the =
Supreme Court upheld the FCC's decision to allow cable companies =
exclusive access to their broadband Internet lines. Telephone companies =
are currently required to share their digital-subscriber lines, or DSL, =
for the Internet with rivals but want similar exclusivity.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
