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To: Stephen who wrote (299)	6/30/1999 12:46:00 AM
From: Goldbug Guru	Respond to of 963

Check this out everyone. From CNET A new bill aimed at speeding rollouts of broadband Internet service and protecting the networks of cable companies like AT&T is headed for Congress. The measure is slated to be introduced Thursday. Final details, however, are still being worked out between authors Sen. Billy Tauzin (R-Louisiana), chair of the House telecommunications subcommittee, and Sen. John Dingell (D-Michigan), the House's leading Democrat on telecommunication issues. Yet according to the senators' aides, the main thrust of the bill has been decided. It will include provisions that would protect cable operators like AT&T from being forced to open their high-speed networks to competing Internet service providers. Additionally, the bill would reduce regulations on telephone companies' broadband data businesses, the aides said. "It will say [cable companies] won't have any additional regulatory requirements applied at this time," said Dennis Fitzgibbons, Dingell's press secretary.