{"id":1183,"date":"2005-03-23T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2005-03-23T00:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2005-03-23T00:01:49","modified_gmt":"2005-03-23T00:01:49","slug":"werblog_the_end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1183","title":{"rendered":"Werblog: The End of Broadband Service?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Werbach <a href=\"http:\/\/werbach.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/the_end_of_broa.html\">muses<\/a> on a recent anti-consumer broadband FCC decision that will prolong our slow broadband service&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The FCC reached a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1759,1778099,00.asp\">decision this week<\/a> that could effectively end broadband service as we know it. The order hasn&#8217;t officially come out yet, but the result was leaked.<br \/>\nThe FCC granted a petition by BellSouth to pre-empt state regulators from requiring &#8220;naked DSL.&#8221; The procedural aspects are convoluted, so the effect of that action may not be clear. Here&#8217;s what the FCC is saying. The local phone companies (and, although the ruling doesn&#8217;t specifically cover them, cable companies) are free to force customers to buy pay for phone service in order to get broadband. Whether or not you use the phone company&#8217;s voice service is immaterial &#8212; you have to pay for it. Although there are a few telcos willing to sell DSL as a stand-alone service (notably Qwest), one wonders if they will continue to do so.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Werbach muses on a recent anti-consumer broadband FCC decision that will prolong our slow broadband service&#8230;. The FCC reached a decision this week that could effectively end broadband service as we know it. The order hasn&#8217;t officially come out yet, but the result was leaked. The FCC granted a petition by BellSouth to pre-empt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}