{"id":6153,"date":"2007-12-06T07:29:34","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T07:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/fcc-upholds-metro-competition.html"},"modified":"2007-12-06T07:29:34","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T07:29:34","slug":"fcc-upholds-metro-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/fcc-upholds-metro-competition.html","title":{"rendered":"FCC Upholds Metro Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">At yesterday&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/ip-communications\/voice-peering-forum-winter-2007-kicks-off.html\">VPF meeting<\/a> a number of people had trouble believing that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/ip-communications\/verizon-wireless-opens-up.html\">Verizon opening its network<\/a> is an authentic move to help consumers. This is partly because the company while on the one hand was opening was on the other, petitioning the FCC to decrease deregulation &#8212; meaning they would be able to effectively block competition in major metropolitan areas.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">If accepted, the petition would have subjected 34 million Americans in broad areas surrounding Boston, Providence, New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Virginia Beach to fewer choices and higher prices for telecommunications services, according to <!--ZZZLinkBegZZZ-->COMPTEL&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/snapshots\/snapshots.aspx?Company=COMPTEL\">News<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/enews\/subs.aspx?k1=%22comptel%22&amp;k2=+%22Robert+McDowell%22&amp;k3=+%22Robert+M.+McDowell%22\">Alert<\/a>)<!--ZZZLinkEndZZZ--> CEO Jerry James.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">But then again, the two news items are not really related. Although there is a lack of details regarding what Verizon means when it says it is opening its network, the move is for the company&rsquo;s own benefit. In the end, companies do what is best for their own interests and subsequently we need to applaud Chairman Martin and the FCC for upholding the best interests of consumers and businesses by ensuring adequate competition.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">See also:<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/internetcommunications.tmcnet.com\/topics\/broadband-mobile\/articles\/15927-some-insiders-applaud-fcc-rejecting-verizon-request-deregulation.htm\">Some Insiders Applaud FCC Rejecting Verizon Request for Deregulation<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadbandreports.com\/shownews\/FCC-Denies-Verizon-Forbearance-Request-89964\">FCC Denies Verizon Forbearance Request<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><a title=\"COMPTEL Praises FCC's Forebearance Decision Against Verizon\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/regulations\/fcc\/comptel-praises-fccs-forebearance-decision-against-verizon.asp\">COMPTEL Praises FCC&#8217;s Forebearance Decision Against Verizon<\/a> <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><a title=\"Key Verizon Competitor Reacts to FCC Network Access Decision\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/regulations\/fcc\/key-verizon-competitor-reacts-to-fcc-network-access-decision.asp\">Key Verizon Competitor Reacts to FCC Network Access Decision<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At yesterday&rsquo;s VPF meeting a number of people had trouble believing that Verizon opening its network is an authentic move to help consumers. This is partly because the company while on the one hand was opening was on the other, petitioning the FCC to decrease deregulation &#8212; meaning they would be able to effectively block<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,160,118,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}