FCC Abandons Linesharing, Kills DSL Competition

[Cees Binkhorst]

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Dit zal KPN ook wel leuk vinden!
Amerikaanse telefoonmaatschappijen hoeven over drie jaar geen
faciliteiten meer beschikbaar te stellen aan andere bedrijven om het
leveren van DSL (in Nederland ADSL) door hen mogelijk te maken.

http://yro.slashdot.org/
Posted by timothy on Thursday February 20, @02:10PM
from the where-are-my-leo-sats dept.
raygundan writes "According to Reuters, the FCC today decided to
greatly curtail the laws that force incumbent phone companies to
share their lines with their competition at cost. This does not bode
well for companies like Covad Communications who provide DSL using
phone lines to bridge their data networks over the "last mile" to
customers. The new rules do force line sharing as long as companies
are willing to offer voice service, but this essentially states that
if you are not already a phone company, you cannot offer DSL. The
existing rules will be phased out over three years. There is still
some hope, however, that a federal court might strike down the FCC
ruling. Oddly, the news agencies seem to be reporting this as a minor
change to the rules, rather than an end to all non-ILEC competition
in DSL." The FCC's front page has links (luckily PDFs as well as
Microsoft Word files) about the decision, including statements from
each of the commissioners.

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