ISPs Also Keeping Tabs on Bell Access.

Multichannel News, October, 1999 by HEARN, TED

WASHINGTON -- The cable industry shouldn't feel picked on, as Internet players say they're watching the business practices of the big telephone companies with equal suspicion. In Florida, Internet service providers are trying to block BellSouth Corp. from bundling regulated phone service and Internet access at discounted rates.

And in Washington, D.C., many ISPs are protesting as discriminatory the digital subscriber line rates that Bell Atlantic Corp. filed with the Federal Communications Commission in May. "The most important thing happening to the independent ISPs today is the anti-competitive practices of the Bell operating companies," said Barbara Dooley, head of the U.S. Internet Service Providers Alliance. She also heads the Commercial...

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