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Broadband Follies
Posted by Ernest Miller on Monday, October 15 @ 19:35:54 EDT OpenAccess
The WashTech.com section of the Washington Post has an article reporting the desires of competitors to structurally split each of the regional Bells into two companies, a retail company that provides service to homes and offices, and a wholesale company that would provide service to competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) (A Bell Split?). The reason for this is that the regional Bells have done a very poor job at allowing competition. This past March, Pennsylvania's Public Utility Commission ordered Verizon to "functionally" separate. Read the PPUC's press release (PUC Orders Functional Structural Separation of Verizon). C|Net News carries a Reuters wire story about the view of the regional Bells, who believe that they need to be free of requirements to open their networks and the Tauzin-Dingell bill (otherwise known as HR 1542) is the way to do it (Vote on broadband bill possible). Slashdot has a discussion of this as well as the business problems broadband providers are facing (Broadband Is Dead (Or At Least Very Ill)).

The Pittsburgh Business Times reported on the separation order in March (PUC to Verizon Pennsylvania: open service or 'functionally' separate).
 
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