Judge keeps Verizon ISP off Cox system. (Policy).(U.S. Federal Communications Commission's regulatory classification of cable-modem service)(Government Activity)(Legal Beat)(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, February, 2002 by Hearn, Ted

A California federal judge refused to order cable operator Cox Communications Inc. to carry a phone company-affiliated Internet-service provider on its high-speed Internet-access platform.

In a Jan. 29 decision, U.S. Judge Napoleon A. Jones Jr. said ISP Verizon Internet Solutions was not entitled to cable carriage while the Federal Communications Commission was determining the regulatory classification of cable-modem service.

"The regulation of cable Internet Involves complex issues with far-reaching consequences. The issue is clearly not being taken lightly by the experts at the FCC, and this court defers to that concern and pending investigation," Jones wrote in a nine-page opinion.

Jones, who serves in the southern district of...

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