When FCC rules on access, cable hopes to see 'Orange'.(Federal Communications Commission)
Multichannel News, November, 2001 by Hearn, Ted
Anyone attuned to the remarks of Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell knows by now about his passion for promoting broadband deployment. In fact, it's at the top of his agenda. For Republican Powell, the solution isn't complicated: Americans will get connected to high-speed data lines not via creative rule-writing by government bureaucrats, but through business risk-taking backed by billions of dollars in venture capital.
In that sense, no one questions his determination to let market forces prevail. But over the next weeks and months, the cable, telephone, and Internet industries are going to witness just how Powell goes about elbowing government out of the way. "The nation should commit itself to achieving universal...
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