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To: Bob Zacks who wrote (3001)10/28/1998 10:26:00 PM
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I've made various arguments about "sharing". You are not convinced that any of them have meat. It's very easy to have the concern you've expressed, but the issues are far more complex than a government mandated "sharing" could legally address. Consider that TWX-Road Runner would have to share its lines. I believe that only telephony could come under the auspices of a FCC ordered "common carrier" like status. That means that ATT couldn't be the exclusive provider of telephony on TCI lines. In contrast broadband services seem like an entirely different class of communications. Perhaps more down the line of entertainment than communication.

I don't know what you mean by sacrificing ATHM. Do you mean that TCI and the other partnering MSOs would have to divest themselves? If ATT builds there own wire system, does the government have control over it? There are many private networks over which the government has no authority. What is private? When does a network come under the government purview? When it creates exclusivity among participating interests? It will take a Supreme Court decision , but I believe copper Internet will be judged to be sufficiently different and cable judged not hostage to copper common carrier status. That kind of status would arise among competing providers of broadband services, but only when telephony is offered. Copper ISPs must align themselves with fiber networks, if they wish to provide broadband service.
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