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JTRockville
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join:2002-01-28
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1 edit | Re: Once Again - Government Holds Us Back Nothing would stop Verizon from deploying right now, if they owned their own property.
But since they want to install equipment on public property, they have to commit to serving the public interest. | |
|  patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| Re: Once Again - Government Holds Us Back said by JTRockville  :Nothing would stop Verizon from deploying right now, if they owned their own property. But since they want to install equipment on public property, they have to commit to serving the public interest. There is no question about public property. Verizon has public access through being a ILEC/Baby Bell. Its FIOS equipment CAN NOT BE REGULATED by the govt. NO franchise agreement can regulated placement of any components except the set top boxes, since all other elements of FIOS have non-TV uses (internet/phone). The state PUC would have to change the law to regulate FIOS, and if it did, the FCC would strike it down instantly, the FCC promised that next gen broadband/telco tv infrastructure will not be regulated by the FCC (and therefore any state or local govt), otherwise Verizon and ATT would have never built any of it, it it had to resell it to CLECs. | |
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