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(USA) Cable - Supreme Court result

  • 28-06-2005 11:02am
    #1
    crawler
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    The Supreme Court ruled Monday that cable companies are not required to share their broadband access loops with independent ISPs. And the sworn enemies of the cable companies -- the RBOCs -- are cheering the decision as a sign that telecom deregulation is coming soon.

    Full story here :- http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=76385&WT.svl=news1_1


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  • #2
    Steffano2002
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    And this is good news because...?


  • #3
    juliuspret
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    Highly interesting if you live in the US...but.....


  • #4
    Steffano2002
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    That's what I was thinking... Maybe it will impact Ireland/Europe somehow? I don't know... :confused:


  • #5
    paulm17781
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    The main reason is that cable companies funded their networks privately where as PSTN was build with government money.

    Is that the case here? Telecom Eireann and RTE used to own cablelink (NTL), who funded their network?


  • #6
    fightin snr
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    paulm17781 wrote:
    Is that the case here? Telecom Eireann and RTE used to own cablelink (NTL), who funded their network?


    no one thats why it`s in the state it`s in...decades behind,with only selected areas capable of providing broadband :D


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  • #7
    crawler
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    Steffano2002 wrote:
    And this is good news because...?

    it's neither good nor bad news...it's simply interesting that DSL is deemed as telecommunications and Cable is designated as an information service...that's all :)


  • #8
    Steffano2002
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    Wel thank you for that information! I thought it odd myself at first but it does make sense alright...


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