This is one decision I can totally applaud– FCC is banning exclusive phone deals for apartments. In other words, you can pick whatever phone company you want and not be restricted to the “agreements” building owners have with phone companies. I think for once FCC has taken a consumer-first decision. Housing and real estate groups are bitching and moaning… of course they would. What would be great if FCC extends this to broadband as well. For instance, I would love to buy my broadband from Ethernet-based service provider, WebPass and not the two current choices of Comcast and the phone company. [Fixed the bad Web Pass URL. Sorry folks]
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