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Phone Companies Pushing Hard to Change Cable Rules

Steve Alexander writes on the (Minneapolis-St. Paul) StarTribune.com:

After years of tentatively testing the cable television waters, telephone companies are poised to invade the market with their own service.

But first, the phone companies, including dominant local player Qwest Communications, are pushing hard to change the federal rules governing cable competition. They want to reduce their costs of becoming cable providers by reducing obligations to each city government. They argue easing rules would spur competition.

New rules being issued today in Washington by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are likely to give them some of what they want, reducing barriers to entry for new cable providers.

posted by Fergie @ 12/19/2006 07:01:00 PM