Subject: Re: Chairman Kennard's Speech on Broadband to the Home
James Love (love017@ibm.net)
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:59:12 -0400
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:59:12 -0400 From: James Love <love017@ibm.net> Subject: Re: Chairman Kennard's Speech on Broadband to the Home To: roundtable@cni.org Message-Id: <3598FD40.CE9BB053@ibm.net> References: <3598449F.2C47@apt.org>
Maureen Lewis <mlewis@apt.org> wrote:
>
> I thought you all would like to know about a speech that FCC Chairman
> Bill Kennard delivered last week, titled "Broad(band) Vision of
> America." In it he discusses the necessity of increasing bandwith
> capacity to the home (a long-time goal of APT's) and outlines the
> conditions for limiting regulation of advanced telecommunications
> services to encourage deployment of the necessary infrastructure.
> Chairman Kennard emphasizes the importance of ensuring that deployment
> occurs for all consumers and not just for big businesses, the affluent,
> or city dwellers.
Of course, his decision was guidely by big business. Bell Atlantic
and other APT LEC funders have asked to to keep the infrastructure for
xDLS off the public network, and proprietary, so competitors can't lease
unbundled components.
jamie
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