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To: E. Davies who wrote (7678)4/11/1999 12:06:00 PM
From: Robert Scott  Read Replies (1) of 29970
 
Nope - let's get this straight. @Home has the exclusive right to use the pipes for internet access. AOL does not want to bypass @Home and go straight to Comcast, etc. What they want is to have open access - like with ADSL or dial-tone - so that an AOL user could sign up for the @Home transport service to the internet and then AOL for the content - just like it is today with the phone company and AOL and just like it will be with ADSL. Perhaps what is confusing here is that @Home is a carrier, an internet access provider, and a portal. But I do agree with you that it would be very ugly to try to set this up and I can assure you that the FCC does not want to hold up @Home. If you read their 3 year Report on Broadband, you can tell they are pissed at the RBOCs for their dilatory tactics concerning ADSL, local competition, etc. They see @Home as a force to cause ADSL to be introduced sooner rather than later which is what they want = broadband deployment now! After having read many FCC documents concerning the internet and the ATT/TCI transaction (including AOL's comment), I am surprised by how much they get all of this. Of course, that could be prompted by the fact that there is some support on capital hill for the abolishment of the FCC in its entirety.
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