FCC Team Ponders Cable-Net Access.

Multichannel News, June, 1999 by HEARN, TED

WASHINGTON -- It's a good guess that many of the limos lined up at the Federal Communications Commission in the months ahead will belong to the growing number of players taking aim at cable's Internet-access strategy. It seems as if everyone in the media-convergence game not affiliated with AT&T Corp.

has some kind of beef with the nation's largest cable operator and with the industry at large. In fact, the antipathy has produced the most potent anti-cable faction since the passage of the 1992 Cable Act. "I don't think that's a wild-goose chase," a broadcast industry lobbyist said when asked if a replay of 1992 could be upon cable. "You've got people calling AT&T 'Ma Cable.'" Many interests feel threatened: * Broadcasters that...

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