ISPs Argue for Access to Cable Backbone.(internet service providers)
Multichannel News, September, 1998 by Hearn, Ted
WASHINGTON -- Some of the nation's largest Internet-service providers are demanding access to cable's high-speed networks - and the Federal Communications Commission is listening. In the years ahead, the FCC could end up issuing orders that make cable operators sell high-speed transmission services to unaffiliated ISPs like America Online Inc.
- the nation's No. 1 online company, with 12 million subscribers. This means that companies like @Home Network and Road Runner would have to sell their excess capacity to ISPs. The issue was teed up two weeks ago, with the release of a 119-page paper prepared by FCC staff member Barbara Esbin, "Internet Over Cable: Defining the Future in Terms of the Past." Esbin's paper concluded that cable Internet services -...
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