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To: Jacktoad who wrote (10271)	6/4/1999 5:44:00 PM
From: Daniel G. DeBusschere	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29970

The Portland ruling makes sense- The granting of a franchise to provide cable services exclude others who would like to do the same thing. Therefore, it is only right to allow open access to this monopoly franchise. Otherwise, forget the franchise crap and allow ISPs to string their own cable. If you look at the rates, the cable company is getting the cream and the ISPs are getting the crumbs. This ruling will stand in my opinion and there is too much political suck to prevent its overturn. AT&T can't pay enough to lobby their way out of this. They should be happy with the cream and sign up AOL - this would hit the RBOCs and xDSL options for the consumer market in my opinion. So it isn't all that bad unless you own ATHM or ILEC equities.