California-Sized Lessons on Access Pain.(regulation planning over access to digital subscriber lines)

Multichannel News, October, 2001 by BROWN, KAREN

What with irate Internet-service providers, a defensive network operator and mounting legal action, things are definitely not sunny in California. The prickly relationship between SBC Communications Inc. -- the incumbent regional Bell operating company -- and independent ISPs over access to digital subscriber line networks is threatening to escalate into a legal and regulatory war.

With most major MSOs now in trials to create a multiple-access landscape for cable-modem service, will such battles emerge on that front well? Not necessarily. ISPs and cable operators said there are no guarantees of a repeat performance, though the potential for such strife clearly exists. In a complaint filed with the California Public Utilities Commission on...

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