They're NOT Bell's cables.
We paid for them outright, with tax subsidies, with monopoly protection, and with regulated rates much higher than free-market would have supported.
The shared-use providers pay for the use of the coppper wire, just like cable companies pay for use of the power company's telephone poles.
What this ruling says is that they don't have to share this basic infrastructure already setup...
Powell isn't the only one. In fact, only two of the commisioners admit support for that specific issue. Makes you wonder how they can be dissenting from a majority decision when 3 out of 5 don't support it, and 2 of 5 were strongly in opposition in their public statement. Simply put, they got the copper-loop issue wrong.
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They're NOT Bell's cables. We paid for them outright, with tax subsidies, with monopoly protection, and with regulated rates much higher than free-market would have supported. The shared-use providers pay for the use of the coppper wire, just like cable companies pay for use of the power company's telephone poles. What this ruling says is that they don't have to share this basic infrastructure already setup...
Powell isn't the only one. In fact, only two of the commisioners admit support for that specific issue. Makes you wonder how they can be dissenting from a majority decision when 3 out of 5 don't support it, and 2 of 5 were strongly in opposition in their public statement. Simply put, they got the copper-loop issue wrong.