WHO WILL CONTROL YOUR BROADBAND?
[SOURCE: The Motley Fool, AUTHOR: David Lee Smith]
Do you live in an apartment or condominium? If so, and if the Federal
Communications Commission has its way, you may suddenly have as much choice in
your broadband provider as the folks down the street in single-family homes.
It's all part of the intensifying competition with telephone companies Verizon
and AT&T on the one hand, and the cable operators, including Comcast, Time
Warner Cable, and Charter, on the other. It's a battle that's being waged on
more and more fronts, and now it's moved to residential real estate. The FCC
has proposed -- somewhat at the telecoms' urging -- that the owners of
apartment buildings and condos be prohibited from entering into exclusive deals
with cable operators. Under the current arrangements, residents of individual
units are not allowed to select their own cable company or the still newly
available packages provided by the telephone operators. The Commission's newest
proposal, which would do away with multi-unit deals, could be voted on by the
full five-member FCC within a few weeks. If passed, it would give apartment and
condo dwellers a second choice in their broadband services.
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2007/09/11/who-will-control-your-broadband.aspx
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