March 21, 2006 | Comments: (0)
FCC Messes Up...Big Time
Can't believe it. The Washington Post is reporting (oh, and so is InfoWorld) that the FCC voted to deregulate a big part of Verizon's high-speed data pipe portfolio. That means Verizon can now charge businesses anything it wants for these lines. Also lets them manage those lines however they see fit--that means you can forget about other providers renting them and you can probably expect blockages of certain kinds of traffic--or at the very least surcharges.
You just know I'm going to wind up having to explain the sudden price hikes to all my NYC customers.
And yeah, you can expect price hikes, because Verizon lobbied for the deregs based on their "needing this flexibility in order to more fully deploy fibre...". 'Course, they already had $200 billion for this backin 1996 and that got lost, but who's counting?
Posted by Oliver Rist on March 21, 2006 10:32 AM
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