niko01
join:2004-01-19
Houston, TX
| reply to audiog
Re: Pffft
Actually ISPs - and that includes separate affiliates of telcos - are not regulated by the FCC or the PUCs. Providers of "telecommunications services" are regulated and Internet access is, by definition, not that. Either you are too stubborn to admit that Information Service providers are unregulated, or you work for the FCC which, in that case, the World is yours to regulate... |
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audiog
join:2004-08-09
Detroit, MI | reply to niko01
All ISPs who own their own network or want to lowest price for network elements are regulated by the FCC and state public utilities commission. |
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niko01
join:2004-01-19
Houston, TX
| reply to audiog
You miss a very large and relevant point. DSL Internet access is not offered by the regulated entity and, as an information service, the service itself is not regulated and is outside the reach of the FCC or the CPUC. If the unregulated information service provider wants to restrict its service offering to a bundle, there is nothing the CPUC or the FCC can do about it. They can try to regulate it by pressuring those they do have regulatory power over - but then you start the slippery slope of regulating ISPs - which the government has no business regulating...
Like it or not, this is not an FCC or CPUC issue. If it is, then God help us because it means the government is in the business of regulating ISPs and if you are so naive to think that it will stop here - I have some land to sell you and I'll even bundle it with the water rights to the ocean that it's not on....
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