Cable access issue has FCC on the spot

Article Abstract:

One of the most crucial issues facing the FCC is whether corporations such as AT&T that acquire huge cable networks should be required to open them to competing Internet service providers (ISP). AT&T's purchase of TCI, the largest cable operator in the US, was driven by a desire to offer bundled telephone, television and Internet access services. AOL, the largest ISP, initially asked the FCC to promote open access but backed off in the wake of its merger with Time Warner, another large cable operator. The agency is now trapped on all sides, with consumer advocacy groups and competing telcos angry about the creation of effective monopolies and early proponents of telecom deregulation complaining that the original plan to create competition has been undermined. State public service commissions who want to facilitate interconnection agreements for independent ISPs may actually move ahead of the FCC if it keeps delaying decisions.

Regulation and Administration of Communications, Electric, Gas, and Other Utilities, Telegraph & other communications, Cable Television Systems, Cable Networks, Cable and other pay TV services, Federal Communicatns Commisn, Regulation, admin. of utilities, Services, Internet service providers, Internet services, Cable television broadcasting industry, Cable television, Internet service provider, Industry legal issue, Cable television/data services

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Share and share not: Baby Bells must kep voice networks open to competitors, but need not share new broadband equipment

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The FCC ruled, on Feb 20, 2003, that regional Bell operating systems (RBOC) must lease access to their switching facilities to competing service providers. However, the agency ruled that RBOCs need not share new broadband equipment.

COMMUNICATION, Communications, Broadcasting and Telecommunications, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Communications industry, Regional Bell Operating Companies

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Radio pirates grapple with U.S. regulators; low-power poachers see themselves as crusaders for diversity and free speech

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Unlicensed, low-power radio operators often regard themselves as crusaders for free speech. But the FCC views unlicensed broadcasters with more than 0.025 W of power as radio pirates.

Radio Broadcasting, Radio broadcasting stations, Radio Stations, Amateur & CB Radio, Amateur radio stations, Independent radio stations

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