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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