[plain talk]

The article is pure crap. Powell wants to fix what the previous FCC did in forcing Bells to lease circuits BELOW COST. Hopefully Powell will be successful in fixing this and allow for a more level playing field.

[Bogey78O]

This title is misleading and the article is rhetoric.

Since when are conservative principles pro-heavy regulation? This is doublespeak on your part. It's regulation that gives us CLEC's. It's not free competition when the feds mandate you have competition.

And in regards to facilities can you cite me how many miles of cable feeding the last mile have CLEC's laid down? Any?

So what are we gonna do when Bellsouth stocks becomes a penny stock and no one wants to invest in telephony and no one wants to buy a business that offers returns (possibly) 20 years down the road?

And you still never told me how China and Japan are able to give fast reliable hi tech service without gov't mandated competition.