ISPs want lines flushed open: Supremes urged to reject FCC's stance on cable-plant access.(Policy)(Internet-service providers)(Federal Communications Commission)
Multichannel News, February, 2005 by Hearn, Ted
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court should reject the Federal Communications Commission's conclusion that cable companies do not have to share their high-speed data networks with competing Internet-service providers, ISPs told the high court last Tuesday. The ISPs--including EarthLink Inc.
and Brand X Internet Services--want regulated access to cable's data lines because they don't have their own facilities to reach broadband customers. The ISPs won in lower court, but the Bush Administration, the FCC and the National Cable & Telecommunications Association want that decision overturned so cable companies, not regulators, may decide whether cable systems will offer multiple ISPs. CITE TELECOM ACT In the brief, the ISPs told the Supreme Court...
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