Last access act still months away. (Policy).(Brief Article)
Multichannel News, March, 2002 by Hearn, Ted
WASHINGTON -- Cable-modem service is an unregulated information service -- for now. That's what the Federal Communications Commission declared two weeks ago. In so doing, it immunized cable operators from opening their lines to high-speed-data competitors, as phone companies do. Internet-service providers have lived in the privileged world of being neither cable operators nor phone companies, thus skirting the nest of regulations that have traditionally applied to both industries.
But cable's victory in the open-access game could prove temporary -- and the industry won't know whether it can finally spike the ball in the end zone for another nine months or so. That's because the FCC launched a new rulemaking in which it asks if ISP access rules...
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