Cable Execs: ISP Issue Far from Over.(Internet service providers)

Multichannel News, March, 1999 by ESTRELLA, JOE

SAN ANTONIO -- Internet-service providers will continue to press for the unbundling of cable's broadband pipe, despite regulatory indifference at virtually all levels, experts at last month's Texas Show here said. Attendees gathered to hear a "Washington Update" were told that America Online Inc.

can be expected to raise the issue in "every conceivable jurisdiction," including Congress, as well as state and local regulators. "I'm surprised that this wasn't raised during the Kosovo peace negotiations," said Dan Brenner, general counsel for the National Cable Television Association. However, Brenner added, AOL's argument has been undercut by the Federal Communications Commission's refusal to address the issue, and by Wall Street's "point-blank"...

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