Deployment of Broadband Technologies Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives

The 1996 Telecomm. Act was designed so that telephone co's. would eventually compete in one another's market. However, in 4 years, half of America will either have one broadband competitor or none at all. Most of these people will either be in rural areas or in urban areas. The poor, the rural, those who need it the most will be left out. Witnesses: Scott Cleland, Legg Mason; Jerry Ellig, George Mason Univ.; Donald Vial, Alliance for Public Tech.; H. Russell Frisby, Competitive Telecomm. Assoc.; David Kunkel, PSINet; Shelton Jefferson, Netcom; Roy Neel, U.S. Telecom Assoc.; Melvin Malone, Nat. Assoc. of Reg'y. Util. Comm.; & John Windhausen, Jr., Assoc. for Local Telecom. Services. Illus.Tauzin, W. J. is the author of 'Deployment of Broadband Technologies Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives' with ISBN 9780756716127 and ISBN 0756716128.