Data ruling helps blur definitions. (Policy).(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, April, 2002 by Hearn, Ted

WASHINGTON -- Fueled by a recent move by federal regulators, the cable industry could be at the dawn of a new era in which almost all oversight occurs in Washington, D.C. There's the potential for that oversight to be quite minimal, but that depends on how willing people who like to say "Hands Off the Internet" are also willing to say "Hands Off Cable-Provided Internet." Washington politics being what it is, analysts and others say it's more likely that cable would have to cope with a choppy regulatory environment -- one that calls for adapting to the policies of whoever is running the Federal Communications Commission at a given point in time.

The inaugural for the new era came in March, when the FCC classified cable-modem service as an...

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