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DSL debate heats up for service providers: FCC's BellSouth ruling highlights the issue of why some carriers include voice and others don't.(SERVICE PROVIDERS)(Digital Subscriber Line)
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America's Network
- Article date:
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May 1, 2005
- Author:
- Poe, Robert
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It made for irresistible headlines: "FCC Spurns Naked DSL."
The problem was that the headlines weren't exactly right. True, the FCC's decision invalidated state requirements that BellSouth supply DSL service to users who didn't also buy its phone service. But the ruling wasn't about true "naked" DSL, which travels over lines that carry no voice at all. It was about DSL over UNE, which from a regulatory and perhaps even emotional standpoint is quite different.
Still, from a commercial standpoint, the two are close enough that the entire episode raises an interesting question: Why do some service providers like BellSouth try to avoid delivering DSL without voice, while ...