Pittsburgh Renewal Makes Room for Access.(open access Internet service)(Brief Article)
Multichannel News, January, 2000 by ESTRELLA, JOE
The city of Pittsburgh has become the 12th local franchising authority to address the contentious open-access issue, albeit less aggressively than some jurisdictions. The City Council last week voted 6-1, with one abstention, to grant AT&T Broadband & Internet Services a 10-year renewal on a franchise covering 103,000 local subscribers.
Included in the 70-page arrangement was a one-page provision requiring that AT&T Broadband offer nondiscriminatory access to area Internet-service providers -- but only under certain conditions. This was enough to trigger an immediate argument over who had come out ahead. "They're making a mountain out of a molehill," AT&T Broadband spokesman Dan Garfinkel said, after the OpenNet Coalition declared the access...
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