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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton An article in this morning's Washington underscores the fact that in today's political climate discussions of open access are just acedemic. Yesterday, the FCC announced that telephone companies owning infrastructure will no longer be required to lease their high speed Internet lines to competitors. This follows a recent Supreme Court ruling that freed cable TV companies from having to share their lines with ISP's. The article does not explain the rationale of the Supreme Court decision, and I have not looked up the case. It interesting to me that a court that many consider to be somewhat on the right of the political spectrum would make a decision that reduced competition. Apparantly the FCC saw similar circumstances with phone companies and decided to act rather than rather than pushing the decision into the courts. I guess that leaves me and the rest of Delavan's DSL users at the mercy of the dreaded duopoly of SBC and Charter Communications. Darn! Jay Eaton [/quote] Conversely, the power company I am working for is developing their broadband by powerline project by contracting it out to an independent entity, who in turn offer the bandwidth to any ISP. It is interesting that the power company sees it's main profitability related to the concept in allowing a third party to do all the work, and the third party sees it's optimal profitability in leasing to multiple ISP's. What I wonder is, since power companies must lease space on powerlines to other power companies, will the FERC also direct power companies to lease bandwidth to other power companies for their broadband market?
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