Fall broadband battle looms.
Multichannel News, July, 2002 by Hearn, Ted
WASHINGTON -- Consumer groups are hoping to make off with the punch bowl at this fall's Federal Communications Commission broadband deregulation party. Later this month, the FCC will begin to review the record in multiple proceedings that are collectively designed to create new rules governing high-speed Internet-service providers -- mainly established cable and local phone companies.
Since late last year, Republican FCC chairman Michael Powell has voiced support for policies that put more power into the hands of network owners, in order to spur investment in facilities and stimulate competition at a point in the Internet's end-to-end network diagram where Powell considers it to be most needed. In the view of some, Powell's policies would come...
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