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FCC Rules Telcos Need Not Provide Naked DSL

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  • 04-04-2005 2:43pm
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    dahamsta
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    It's a funny old world, eh? We're so far behind the States now that, at a time when our OLOs are fighting for full unbundling so they can provide a full array of services and in turn draw people away from the incumbent, the OLOs in the States are fighting for partial unbundling so they can provide a full array of services and in turn draw people away from the incumbent. Over IP.
    FCC Rules Telcos Need Not Provide Naked DSL
    Posted by timothy on 05-04-04 0:09
    from the indecent dept.
    Devistater writes "Despite at least four states' laws to the contrary, the FCC has ruled that phone companies need not provide naked DSL service to customers, but can require bundling; for example: Voice and DSL. FCC Commisioners Copps and Adelstein say in dissent 'In this decision, the Commission unwisely flashes the green light for broadband tying arrangements.' 'If it is [ok] to deny consumers DSL if they do not [have] analog voice service, what stops a carrier from denying broadband service to an end-user who has cut the cord and uses only a wireless phone? What prevents a carrier from refusing to provide DSL service to a savvy consumer who wants stand-alone broadband only for VoIP?'"


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