Baby Bells Victorious Over Sharing Rules

An Anonymous Coward sent in somewhat troubling news for people who like high-speed internet access at reasonable prices: the Baby Bells have won their legal challenge of FCC rules requiring them to accomodate competitors providing high-speed internet access. The FCC has already been moving toward this on its own (the FCC is headed by political appointees appointed by the President), but this court decision will accelerate it: neither the current FCC nor the courts are going to stop the Bells from squeezing out their competition. There's a CNet story and the decision is online.

Comments

Just another Enron waiting to happen

[Sydney Weidman]

As long as you leave critical infrastructure in the hands of people who have no public mandate or regulator and who are only concerned with profit, you are asking for trouble.

It's strange that a country so concerned about security and stability would let its own citizens be manipulated and abused by commercial "governments".