Comments on: AT&T, BellSouth Regulatory Block http://gigaom.com/2006/10/13/att-bellsouth-regulatory-blocked/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:00:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: DEC http://gigaom.com/2006/10/13/att-bellsouth-regulatory-blocked/#comment-69945 DEC Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:05:36 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/13/att-bellsouth-regulatory-blocked/#comment-69945 <p>Om said: "I am not sure if they are selling it to AT&T, but FCC needs to kind ensure that there is a smattering of competition. Between cable and bells, we got no choice. Bah!"</p> <p>Come on, this is not 1984. There's plenty of competition from cable and satellite. Various forms of fixed and mobile broadband are maturing quickly (e.g. HSDPA, WiMAX). Verizon is spending $18B to reach 19 million homes with their FiOS network. Cablevision is considering going private in order to compete with FiOS and AT&T Lightspeed.</p> <p>Competition for broadband services is alive and well.</p> Om said: “I am not sure if they are selling it to AT&T, but FCC needs to kind ensure that there is a smattering of competition. Between cable and bells, we got no choice. Bah!”

Come on, this is not 1984. There’s plenty of competition from cable and satellite. Various forms of fixed and mobile broadband are maturing quickly (e.g. HSDPA, WiMAX). Verizon is spending $18B to reach 19 million homes with their FiOS network. Cablevision is considering going private in order to compete with FiOS and AT&T Lightspeed.

Competition for broadband services is alive and well.

]]> By: Amit Chowdhry http://gigaom.com/2006/10/13/att-bellsouth-regulatory-blocked/#comment-69943 Amit Chowdhry Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:08:23 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/13/att-bellsouth-regulatory-blocked/#comment-69943 <p>"I am not sure if they are selling it to AT&T, but FCC needs to kind ensure that there is a smattering of competition." </p> <p>This is definetely true. The FCC is making it the 10-day postponement sound like such an obligation whereas AT&T shareholders don't mind: "Investors appeared to shrug off the delay. AT&T shares closed Friday unchanged at $33.60 [Reuters]."</p> <p>This is a $67 billion dollar deal! And since AT&T would build lots of power with this deal, I don't want to be the one screwed with paying AT&T monopolistic prices. Everyone needs an Internet connection and having very limited suppliers would not do us any good.</p> <p>Nice coverage, GigaOM.</p> “I am not sure if they are selling it to AT&T, but FCC needs to kind ensure that there is a smattering of competition.”

This is definetely true. The FCC is making it the 10-day postponement sound like such an obligation whereas AT&T shareholders don’t mind: “Investors appeared to shrug off the delay. AT&T shares closed Friday unchanged at $33.60 [Reuters].”

This is a $67 billion dollar deal! And since AT&T would build lots of power with this deal, I don’t want to be the one screwed with paying AT&T monopolistic prices. Everyone needs an Internet connection and having very limited suppliers would not do us any good.

Nice coverage, GigaOM.

]]> By: Ronald Lewis http://gigaom.com/2006/10/13/att-bellsouth-regulatory-blocked/#comment-69942 Ronald Lewis Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:04:42 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/13/att-bellsouth-regulatory-blocked/#comment-69942 <p>I'm taken aback by XO's participation in filing a complaint against said merger. Here's why in a blog entry from earlier this month:</p> <p>http://www.ronaldlewis.com/blog/2006/10/2001-using-social-networking-to-defeat.html</p> I’m taken aback by XO’s participation in filing a complaint against said merger. Here’s why in a blog entry from earlier this month:

http://www.ronaldlewis.com/blog/2006/10/2001-using-social-networking-to-defeat.html

]]> By: Jose Figueredo http://gigaom.com/2006/10/13/att-bellsouth-regulatory-blocked/#comment-69940 Jose Figueredo Sat, 14 Oct 2006 16:14:11 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/13/att-bellsouth-regulatory-blocked/#comment-69940 <p>Om,</p> <p>Naked DSL should be a requirement for the merger to be approved, and let's not forget emerging technologies like WiMax, which to my surprise is being deployed in Latin American countries with great success. Are we becoming the next "Banana Republic" with the help of the FCC?</p> Om,

Naked DSL should be a requirement for the merger to be approved, and let’s not forget emerging technologies like WiMax, which to my surprise is being deployed in Latin American countries with great success. Are we becoming the next “Banana Republic” with the help of the FCC?

]]> By: William Trent http://gigaom.com/2006/10/13/att-bellsouth-regulatory-blocked/#comment-69938 William Trent Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:58:35 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/13/att-bellsouth-regulatory-blocked/#comment-69938 <p>Which part of Kevin Martin's dissenting vote on UNE-P qualified him as the "phone company's best friend?"</p> Which part of Kevin Martin’s dissenting vote on UNE-P qualified him as the “phone company’s best friend?”

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2006/10/13/att-bellsouth-regulatory-blocked/#comment-69936 Om Malik Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:07:46 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/13/att-bellsouth-regulatory-blocked/#comment-69936 <p>I am not sure if they are selling it to AT&T, but FCC needs to kind ensure that there is a smattering of competition. Between cable and bells, we got no choice. Bah!</p> I am not sure if they are selling it to AT&T, but FCC needs to kind ensure that there is a smattering of competition. Between cable and bells, we got no choice. Bah!

]]> By: Mark http://gigaom.com/2006/10/13/att-bellsouth-regulatory-blocked/#comment-69935 Mark Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:06:29 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/13/att-bellsouth-regulatory-blocked/#comment-69935 <p>I agree, Om. The FCC is selling the Internet to AT&T. At what cost, of course.</p> I agree, Om. The FCC is selling the Internet to AT&T. At what cost, of course.

]]> By: Matt S http://gigaom.com/2006/10/13/att-bellsouth-regulatory-blocked/#comment-69934 Matt S Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:07:03 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/13/att-bellsouth-regulatory-blocked/#comment-69934 <p>Wow, Democrats preventing a vote! Hard to imagine. The IPDemocracy link has some interesting political insights, but that Tim Karr stuff is absurd. He seems to think that the merger is somehow about "women and people of color". Funny, I thought it was about telecoms…</p> Wow, Democrats preventing a vote! Hard to imagine. The IPDemocracy link has some interesting political insights, but that Tim Karr stuff is absurd. He seems to think that the merger is somehow about “women and people of color”. Funny, I thought it was about telecoms…

]]> By: rick http://gigaom.com/2006/10/13/att-bellsouth-regulatory-blocked/#comment-69932 rick Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:19:20 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/13/att-bellsouth-regulatory-blocked/#comment-69932 <p>Just make AT&T offer DSL without having to pay for their phone service!!!</p> Just make AT&T offer DSL without having to pay for their phone service!!!

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