Baby Bell Data May Get Dereg.

Multichannel News, May, 1999

WASHINGTON -- Senate Commerce Committee chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) introduced legislation that would deregulate Baby Bell provision of Internet services to residential and business users. The bill -- introduced last Thursday as part of McCain's larger effort to overhaul the Telecommunications Act of 1996 -- would bar the Federal Communications Commission from requiring the regional Bell operating companies to meet a 14-point checklist before they can provide long-distance services.

McCain's bill -- which applies to data, but not voice services -- would also exempt the Bells from having to lease and resell their advanced data services to competitors.

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