Brand X case may impact telecom-reform debate.(News)

RCR Wireless News, March, 2005

Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER The outcome of a case being argued this week before the U.S. Supreme Court will shape the telecom debate going forward. "This will shape the debate before Congress,'' said Mark Cooper, research director of the Consumer Federation of America. Brand X Services Inc.

is an independent Internet services provider that wanted access to a cable system to offer its services to the cable operator's cable-modem customers. The company was blocked when the Federal Communications Commission declared cable-modem service an information service and thus not required to provide open access. The debate about what is an information service and what is a telecommunications service has ramifications for everything with...

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