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- Barry

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<a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/07/broadband/index.html?x">http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/07/broadband/index.html?x</a> 

 
Getting a lock on broadband How the FCC is paving the way for a few big
companies to control everyone's high-speed Internet access. 
 
Editor's note: Fifth in a series on the consolidation of power and
ownership in the media landscape. 
 
                                       - - - - - - - - - - - -
                                       By Jeffrey Benner
 
 
 
June 7, 2002 | The Federal Communications Commission is quietly handing
over control of the broadband Internet to a handful of massive
corporations. 

 
In March, the FCC ruled that cable companies do not have to open their
networks to competing Internet service providers, or ISPs.  A FCC
proposal to extend the same exemption to DSL service is pending.  If
approved, the proposal will allow local phone companies, now down to
four "Baby Bells," to deny other DSL providers access to local phone
networks.  Currently, all DSL providers are guaranteed access to phone
networks under the FCC's interpretation of federal telecommunications
law. 

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