Sounds like wishful thinking to me
"This evens the playing field. It lets the phone companies compete head-to-head with cable," says Geoff Burke of Next Level Communications of the FCC decision to revoke open access requirements for new networks baby Bell companies might build in the future. The capital necessary to build out new networks simply doesn't exist today and, since DSL and cable haven't paid off in a significant return on investment, not likely to come streaming in just because wired providers don't have to share new networks. Wireless is totally unaccounted for in the calculation that suggests the FCC decision makes new network investments inevitable, at least in time to resurrect the valuations of companies like Next Level.
Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe at February 23, 2003 08:32 PM | TrackBack