On 05/05/2013 07:36 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
Randy Cole wrote:
Without competition or dpu regulation,
FiOS is regulated. It is regulated at the local level just like every
other cable TV service in the US.
But not in the same way copper POTS was in some very important respects.
First, access: Vz doesn't /have/ to provide third party access (so for
example there will never be another Speakeasy, or 10-10-220 if you
remember that). Second, while Comcast is the vocal leader on this, Vz
is right behind them: they like to claim that since it's not a POTS line
any more that the provisions of common-carrier status don't apply
(Comcast has voiced this on a few occasions in testimony to the FCC;
Verizon for it's part took the FCC to court about net neutrality last
year, wherein they basically said the same thing Comcast said
("common-carrier doesn't apply to us anymore"):
http://www.dmlp.org/blog/2012/balancing-interests-open-internet-verizon-challenges-fccs-net-neutrality-rules
).
Matt
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