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The Rules No Longer Apply: FCC Lifts Some Verizon Broadband Regulations

And so it begins.

An AP article, via MSNBC, reports that:

The government is easing regulations on what Verizon Communications Inc. can charge business customers for its high-speed broadband data services.

The Federal Communications Commission is allowing Verizon to exempt its broadband data services provided to large enterprise and wholesale customers, including wireless and long-distance phone companies, from rules regarding tariff filings and pricing requirements.

Verizon, in a 2004 petition to the commission, argued that there is fierce competition in the broadband market. It noted that other competitors — cable and long distance — all faced lower regulatory hurdles and that Verizon should no longer be saddled with the rules.

More here.

posted by Fergie @ 3/20/2006 05:45:00 PM