Supreme Court To Revisit 1996 Telecom Act This Term

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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karma 'ho'

[stud9920]

This link works better

http://KARMAWHORE@archives.nytimes.com/2001/10/01/ technology/01TELE.html

Re:I hope they can control Ashcroft

[Fiver-]

Something about him bugs me.

Maybe the fact that his home state would rather elect a dead man as their Senator than him?

Re:Let them monopolize.

[SnapShot]

Something has got to be better than the situation we have now. Everyone who is happy with their local phone monopoly please raise your hand. Okay, those of you that work for the monopoly can put your hands down. Anyone left.... anyone... hello???