Public-Interest Groups Follow AOL's Lead.
Multichannel News, April, 1999 by HEARN, TED
WASHINGTON -- A few well-known public-interest groups are continuing their campaign to force cable operators to give high-speed cable-modem subscribers unfettered access to the Internet-service providers of their choice. Although the groups are offering a range of potential fixes, their basic massage is clear: Cable operators must open their networks to Internet competitors.
The cable industry opposes such a move, claiming that the imposition of mandatory access rules would increase consumer costs and slow investment in the technology that is necessary for making cable wires the speediest connection to the Internet. At a press conference two weeks ago loaded with anti-cable rhetoric, leaders from the Consumers Union, the Media Access Project,...
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