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To: American Spirit who wrote (14414)	8/13/1999 6:56:00 PM
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U.S. FCC expected to side with cable on Internet Reuters Story - August 13, 1999 17:58 Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. By Aaron Pressman WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (Reuters) - AT&T Corp. and the rest of the cable industry will likely get a boost from the Federal Communications Commission next week in their legal battle to avoid local regulation of new high-speed cable Internet services. The agency plans to file an amicus, or "friend of the court," brief on Monday siding with AT&T in the No. 2 cable firm's effort to overturn a Portland, Oregon rule allowing competing Internet service providers access to its system. A Portland federal district in May upheld the city's right to impose so-called open access requirements on AT&T, sparking other cities to consider similar regulations and knocking down share prices of cable company stocks. The FCC has twice decided to monitor -- but not to regulate -- the nascent cable Internet market and the agency's brief could sway an appeals court to overturn the earlier ruling. Communications attorneys said the brief will argue that, as a matter of national policy, regulation of cable Internet service in its current early stages would do more harm than good. But the brief cannot back some of the more substantive arguments made by AT&T over which laws should apply because the commission itself has never addressed those questions, they said. "An amicus brief is a limited forum for the commission," said one Washington attorney who declined to be identified. "I expect you will see a repetition of what they've said before, that it's too soon to take any action."