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To: Dan3 who wrote (166031)	6/8/2002 12:33:01 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

"which specific issue has kept me on bonded ISDN lines at home while a nearby wireless node has sat for months waiting for SBC to connect it." The people over the last 100+ years paid for the lines in what is called the "local loop". The rbocs have done everything they can do to stop the deployment of dsl BY OTHERS using those same "common carrier" lines. This ruling is a monumental setback to dsl. The new FCC under Powell's son seems hell bent on protecting the existing interests. LONG LIVE THE PRINCESS PHONE!!!!!! Personally it really wouldn't bother me, except that this is probably the single most important factor in the downfall of the dotcoms. (Much more important than accounting tricks.) Yes, it is true that those new startup companies should not have been so STUPID as to believe the congress when it passed a law called the "Telecomunications Deregulation Act". They did not know what it was really called was the "You Spend A Lot Of Money Building Comm Equipment At Our Central Office, Then We Will Screw You And Take The Equipment Act" AND it is a major cause in the slow down of the computer business right now. Court orders FCC to re-examine local competition rules Start-ups selling to survive By Cara Garretson IDG News Service, 05/28/02 In a decision viewed as a victory for incumbent local phone providers, better known collectively as Baby Bells, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ordered a review of the regulations that govern how the Bells must treat competitors in the local phone market. nwfusion.com