Supreme Court To Revisit 1996 Telecom Act This Term

Posted by Hemos on Monday October 1, 2001 @02:52AM from the look-at-it-more-closely dept.

Masem writes "In addition to the cases of online adult material mentioned yesterday, the Supreme Court is slated to hear several cases regarding the failure of the 1996 Telecommunications Bill and it's affect on the current market, as summarized by NYTimes (Free Reg Req). Namely, 10 high profile cases that were in the federal circuits are being condensed into 3 specific cases that the court will hear separately. The first is dealing with rates and fees the local bell can incur on competing services (including alternate carriers and DSL CLECs) that use their equipment. The second is whether there still exists differences between the concept of common carrier between phone and cable services since the types of service that both are providing are quickly merging. The third is in regard to the ability for the federal system to overrule state utility boards in their decison and penalty of telecom companies."

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it hurts by ctrl · 2001-10-01 03:17 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I'm not a native English language speaker, but reading this post really hurts. The Slashdot guys should get some grammar training.
This was seen 3 days ago!! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 03:43 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Why does slashdot always alternate between poorly researched , poorly written or

old recycled news!!

THIS styory was already seen a few days ago in Yahoo! This story was taken

almost word for word!!!!

What's da dillio yo!!

This is not a TROLL, this is the truth... see it for yourself

Yahoo! had the story 3 days ago!!
Re:Let them monopolize. by moderate_this · 2001-10-01 05:47 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Who moderated this clueless troll up ?