Re: RE: RE: Re: A Broadband Mandate?- Telecom Legislation Battle on Capitol Hill

2001-05-15 Thread Rob Schaap
David Shemano wrote: >From a bankruptcy lawyer's perspective, the concept of requiring the Bells to license their lines to competitors has turned out to be pipedream. The DSL industry has imploded over the past year.Several of the companies that licensed the lines (Northpoint, Rhythms) have

RE: RE: Re: A Broadband Mandate?- Telecom Legislation Battle on Capitol Hill

2001-05-15 Thread David Shemano
>From a bankruptcy lawyer's perspective, the concept of requiring the Bells to license their lines to competitors has turned out to be pipedream. The DSL industry has imploded over the past year.Several of the companies that licensed the lines (Northpoint, Rhythms) have already filed for ban

Re: RE: Re: A Broadband Mandate?- Telecom Legislation Battle on Capitol Hill

2001-05-15 Thread Nathan Newman
The best argument NetAction and other folks have after the Rush-Sawyer amendment is that the Bells are wily wabbits who have often managed to wiggle their way out of other regulatory mandates. Netaction has a whole white paper on "How The Bells Stole America's Digital Future" at http://www.netact