FCC Already Working On Ways To Use "Brand X" Ruling For Phone Companies

Within hours after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an FCC ruling that allowed cable companies to deny broadband-line access to competitors, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin had the commission’s lawyers at work on a similar policy for phone companies. Martin told the Wall Street Journal: “We’ll need to move quickly to establish regulatory parity between telephone companies and cable companies that are providing a broadband service.” But Martin — and the phone companies — may have to wait for a new Republican commissioner to make the switch. As the Journal notes, the two Democrats are already on record with concerns about excusive broadband access.

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