IP: Baby Bells Told To Expand High-speed Internet Service

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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>Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 14:54:40 -0400
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>From: David Chessler <chessler@usa.net>
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>So much for competition in the local market. If this gets passed, it's 
>dead, Jim. (See earlier messages on HR 1472)
>
>NewsScan Daily, 10 May 2001 ("Above The Fold")
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>BABY BELLS TOLD TO EXPAND HIGH-SPEED INTERNET SERVICE
>The House Commerce Committee has approved a bill that would free regional
>Bell phone companies SBC, Verizon, Qwest, and BellSouth from requirements
>that they open their local phone markets to competition, but in exchange
>would require those companies to provide high-speed Internet service in 20%
>of their main switching centers within a year (and all of those centers
>within five years), either through conventional phone lines or through
>satellite or other wireless technologies. (AP/Washington Post 10 May 2001)
>http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7499-2001May10.html
>



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