Key Questions
The last mile
- Cheap bandwidth doesn’t matter if it can’t get to end users
- Need for incumbent local exchange carriers to unbundle their networks to enable competition and services such as xDSL
- Is policing this process worth the effort?
The backbones
- Existing arrangements too new to have confidence they will persist
- Is there any form of market power that more bandwidth will not overcome?
The transition -- regulation to deregulate
- Several Bell Operating Companies have filed petitions with the FCC under section 706 to offer regional data networks
- Do restrictions on incumbents promote or hinder competition?