t byfield wrote:
> go figger.
>
> cheers,
> t
>
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>
> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 15:09:35 -0500 (EST)
> From: James Love <love at cptech.org>
> To: random-bits at venice.essential.org
> Subject: [Random-bits] Aaron Pressman - Kennard praises TW merger
>
> It would appears as though FCC Chairman Kennard is sticking with his see
> no evil, speak no evil policy regarding cable company control over the
> broadband cable internet platform.
>
> Jamie
>
> >From aaron.pressman at reuters.com Wed Jan 19 15:06:10 2000
> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 15:03:25 -0500
> From: Aaron Pressman <aaron.pressman at reuters.com>
> Subject: reuters on kennard and aol-twx
>
> U.S. FCC head encouraged by AOl-Time Warner deal
>
> WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - America Online's <AOL.N> proposed
> merger with Time Warner Inc. <TWX.N> was another "encouraging" sign that
> the marketplace can resolve concerns about the openness of cable
> high-speed Internet systems, the top U.S. communications regulator said
> on Wednesday.
>
> As he has done many times in the past two years, Federal
> Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard said he had no
> interest in having the FCC require that cable companies give Internet
> service providers access to their high-speed systems.
>
> "I think it's encouraging," Kennard said at a new briefing, when
> asked about the AOL-Time Warner deal. "I've been saying since the very
> beginning of this debate that the marketplace should work this out...the
> signs are encouraging."
>
> No. 1 Internet service provider AOL had previously lobbied the FCC
> and Congress for regulations requiring that cable companies share their
> high-speed lines with competitors. At the press conference announcing
> the Time Warner merger, AOL Chairman Steve Case committed to voluntarily
> opening Time Warner's lines but said he no longer thought new government
> rules were required.
>
> Kennard declined to comment on his agency's expected review of the
> deal, saying that the companies had not yet filed for approval.
>
> Kennard said he would carefully review AOL's written commitments to
> open access that would likely accompany such a filing.
>
> "Some of the statements we've been seeing around this AOL-Time Warner
> transaction are encouraging," Kennard said. "Now the devil is in the
> details and we'll have to look and see what is really being committed to
> but, yes, I'm optimistic and still encouraged."
>
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