FCC Considering Forcing ISP’s To Share Their Lines

The FCC is considering forcing ISP’s to share their lines with other broadband firms.? In other words in Johnny Upstart Broadband Company wanted to start offering Internet service they wouldn’t have to build their own infrastructure, they would just be able to use Comcast/AT&T/Verizon/etc’s last-mile.? I think this is general is a bad thing because it hurts those businesses, and the new businesses have no real infrastructure upstart costs.? At least not to the extent of the companies infrastructure they would be using.

But the really troubling thing here is that the Berkman Center Study on Broadband is being used as a key component to the decision making.? Check out this post, you can find a flurry of other posts and data that shows the Berkman study was severely flawed, which makes the FCC decision making process to go ahead and use the study seriously questionable.

-nick