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To: Goodboy who wrote (6728)1/29/1999 11:37:00 AM
From: Goodboy   of 21143
 
Since I have mentioned this issue lately, here is a piece of news that AOL and other ISP's aren't too happy about:

January 28, 1999: 
 
FCC Rejects AOL on Unbundling
Washington -- The Federal Communications Commission promised Thursday to monitor the broadband Internet-access market, but it gave nothing else to America Online Inc. in the Internet-service provider's quest to pry open cable networks to unaffiliated providers.

The FCC, in a 5-0 vote, sent Congress a report that refused to delve into the issue of whether cable operators need to allow competing ISPs to reach their customers over cable lines they same way that they reach them over phone lines.

AOL pushed for the FCC inquiry and FCC recognition that it had the legal authority to force cable operators to make their facilities available to alternative providers.

AOL is concerned that cable operators will dominate the high-speed Internet-access market and discriminate against companies in which they do not have financial interests.

The FCC is not expected to release the report until early next week. Commission sources said the document discusses the cable-broadband market, but it omits any discussion of whether the FCC would have the legal authority to force cable operators to unbundle their networks.

- 1/28/99




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