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#92 Access to the Internet: Regulation or Markets?
92 Access to the Internet Regulation or Markets Author:David B. Kopel Residential broadband access to the Internet is becoming a reality around the country as long-distance telephone and cable companies spend billions of dollars digitizing the nation s cable television network. Competition within the cable industry and among cable and providers of other broadband technologies is intense. Against this background... more », a group of Internet Service Providers, content providers, and local phone companies is demanding access to cable networks on terms as favorable as those that the cable companies offer to their own Internet affiliates and subsidiaries. Granting their demands would endanger future investments in broadband systems, pose insurmountable technical problems, and harm rather than benefit consumers.« less