Court Won't Reopen Shared Line Case
from the monopolize-at-will- dept
A federal appeals court announced today that it won't reconsider its decision from May that telephone companies need to share access to their network. They also told the FCC (who had appealed) that they might want to rethink their whole policy on this issue. It's definitely a tricky issue. It doesn't exactly seem fair to make incumbent companies share the networks that they built. But at the same time, without forcing them to share, they have an effective monopoly and can block competition pretty easily.
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Line Sharing in Oz
http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/963
Forum posts on the subject. Look for Simon Hackett's responses for heaps of detail:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=32217
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