February 21, 2003
SJ Mercury: FCC ruling is a blow to the competitive marketplace.
Dan Gillmor. Barring technological and regulatory developments that spur innovation from genuinely new directions, the nation's regional phone monopolies have won a huge advantage in deploying tomorrow's high-speed data networks. And if they operate true to form, they will use that advantage in anticompetitive ways.
Kevin Werbach: What the FCC was thinking.
I'm far less troubled by the elimination of sharing requirements for new fiber deployments (what the High Tech Broadband Coalition endorsed) than the destruction of line-sharing for today's DSL. The problem isn't with Intel's position, it's with the set of compromises the FCC made.
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