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On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 11:15:23 -0400 (EDT) Gregory Boyce <gboyce at badbelly.com> wrote: > Well, it looks like the FCC has reclassified DSL as an Information > Service, meaning that the phone company no longer is required to share the > lines with other providers. > > http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/media_law_prof_blog/2005/08/fcc_reclassifie.html In the strictest sense, ISPs, like Speakeasy, Earthlink, and AOL among others could be frozen out. But, this also leaves them open to state and local regulation. We'll seen how the broadband operators (eg. cable and phone companies) react to this as well as the ISPs, like AOL and Speakeasy. I suspect that there is going to be a lot of legal scrambling. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20050807/8b2cf73b/attachment.sig>
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