House proposes new telecom draft: insight CEO Willner: the bill is 'technology-specific'.(Insight Communications Company Inc., Michael Willner, chief executive officer)(Brief Article)
Multichannel News, November, 2005 by Hearn, Ted
The cable industry is panning new House draft legislation designed to overhaul bedrock telecommunications law and to ease phone-company entry into cable markets. In House testimony last Wednesday, Insight Communications Co. CEO Michael Willner said his industry is troubled because "the current draft creates different regulatory regimes for like services.
Regulatory treatment would turn on whether a provider used packet-switched transmission or not." 'BROADBAND' EXCEPTION The House draft--released Nov. 4 as a revision to a September version--would allow providers of "broadband-video service" to enter local markets without local approval, eliminating the franchise requirement across the country. Willner complained that because cable...
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