FW: monopoli pd. layanan Internet
Ini bukti bahwa bukan saja di Indonesia terjadi monopoli penyediaan layanan internet, tapi juga di Amerika. - Small ISPs Fear A Beating By Broadband Rule (01/21/99, 4:45 p.m. ET) By Mary Mosquera, TechWeb WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Small ISPs made an 11th-hour effort Thursday to convince the Federal Communications Commission to exact stringent requirements from the regional Bells if they are allowed to offer high-speed Internet service free of regulation. The FCC is expected to decide on Jan. 28 whether to do more to facilitate the deployment of high-speed Internet access as stipulated in the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The agency must also rule on whether local phone companies may create separate subsidiaries to offer data services without regulations. The Commercial Internet Exchange, comprised of independent ISPs, acted as a group for the first time Wednesday, meeting with an FCC commissioner and staff over their concerns about the pending rule changes. "We fear the separate subsidiary will preserve advantages existing with the monopolies," said Barbara Dooley, the group's president. "What is needed is vigorous FCC enforcement, not a tilted playing field if third parties -- the ISPs -- are to survive," she said. The ISPs fear if the FCC allows incumbent providers to offer broadband through a separate subsidiary without stringent conditions, competitors will be crushed. The Bells say it is not profitable for them to invest adequately in advanced telecommunications if they are to be saddled by regulations. But deployment of broadband is dragging just as Internet users and e-commerce are mushrooming. The telecom act says the regional monopolies must open their areas to sustained competition to be able to offer long distance and advanced telecommunications. That means the Bells must share their facilities, unbundle services for resale to competitors, and charge a reasonable price to lease lines to the home. The FCC is walking a tightrope between the Bells and competitors, said Scott Cleland, telecom analyst for Legg Mason Precursor Group in Washington, D.C. "The FCC is trying to split the difference, and both sides will be unhappy because neither will get what they want," he said. If the FCC makes the separation, the Bells won't invest more to make deployment happen, Cleland said, taking the situation back to start. "There's going to be a gripefest whatever the FCC does," he said. Consumers choose from among the 6,500 independent ISPs because of the customer service they offer, said Sue Ashdown, general manager of Xmission, in Salt Lake City, and chair of the Coalition of Utah Internet Service Providers. "It's clear the impact of decisions about the incumbent local exchange carriers entering into advanced services on small businesses, and ultimately, the American consumer is not fully understood," Dooley said, adding it was premature for the FCC to rule on broadband. The independent ISPs have the same concerns as competitive local exchanges. The two groups have teamed up over their concerns about the Bell monopolies gaining access to the high-speed market. "It's time for independent ISPs to take a higher profile and time the FCC starts seeing us as the third party, along with competitive and incumbent local exchanges," Ashdown said.
FW: monopoli pd. layanan Internet
Title: FW: monopoli pd. layanan Internet Ini bukti bahwa bukan saja di Indonesia terjadi monopoli penyediaan layanan internet, tapi juga di Amerika. - Small ISPs Fear A Beating By Broadband Rule (01/21/99, 4:45 p.m. ET) By Mary Mosquera, TechWeb WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Small ISPs made an 11th-hour effort Thursday to convince the Federal Communications Commission to exact stringent requirements from the regional Bells if they are allowed to offer high-speed Internet service free of regulation. The FCC is expected to decide on Jan. 28 whether to do more to facilitate the deployment of high-speed Internet access as stipulated in the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The agency must also rule on whether local phone companies may create separate subsidiaries to offer data services without regulations. The Commercial Internet Exchange, comprised of independent ISPs, acted as a group for the first time Wednesday, meeting with an FCC commissioner and staff over their concerns about the pending rule changes. We fear the separate subsidiary will preserve advantages existing with the monopolies, said Barbara Dooley, the group's president. What is needed is vigorous FCC enforcement, not a tilted playing field if third parties -- the ISPs -- are to survive, she said. The ISPs fear if the FCC allows incumbent providers to offer broadband through a separate subsidiary without stringent conditions, competitors will be crushed. The Bells say it is not profitable for them to invest adequately in advanced telecommunications if they are to be saddled by regulations. But deployment of broadband is dragging just as Internet users and e-commerce are mushrooming. The telecom act says the regional monopolies must open their areas to sustained competition to be able to offer long distance and advanced telecommunications. That means the Bells must share their facilities, unbundle services for resale to competitors, and charge a reasonable price to lease lines to the home. The FCC is walking a tightrope between the Bells and competitors, said Scott Cleland, telecom analyst for Legg Mason Precursor Group in Washington, D.C. The FCC is trying to split the difference, and both sides will be unhappy because neither will get what they want, he said. If the FCC makes the separation, the Bells won't invest more to make deployment happen, Cleland said, taking the situation back to start. There's going to be a gripefest whatever the FCC does, he said. Consumers choose from among the 6,500 independent ISPs because of the customer service they offer, said Sue Ashdown, general manager of Xmission, in Salt Lake City, and chair of the Coalition of Utah Internet Service Providers. It's clear the impact of decisions about the incumbent local exchange carriers entering into advanced services on small businesses, and ultimately, the American consumer is not fully understood, Dooley said, adding it was premature for the FCC to rule on broadband. The independent ISPs have the same concerns as competitive local exchanges. The two groups have teamed up over their concerns about the Bell monopolies gaining access to the high-speed market. It's time for independent ISPs to take a higher profile and time the FCC starts seeing us as the third party, along with competitive and incumbent local exchanges, Ashdown said.
