Who Will Control Your Broadband?

WHO WILL CONTROL YOUR BROADBAND?
[SOURCE: The Motley Fool, AUTHOR: David Lee Smith]
Do you live in an apartment or condominium? If so, and if the Federal Communications Commission has its way, you may suddenly have as much choice in your broadband provider as the folks down the street in single-family homes. It's all part of the intensifying competition with telephone companies Verizon and AT&T on the one hand, and the cable operators, including Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Charter, on the other. It's a battle that's being waged on more and more fronts, and now it's moved to residential real estate. The FCC has proposed -- somewhat at the telecoms' urging -- that the owners of apartment buildings and condos be prohibited from entering into exclusive deals with cable operators. Under the current arrangements, residents of individual units are not allowed to select their own cable company or the still newly available packages provided by the telephone operators. The Commission's newest proposal, which would do away with multi-unit deals, could be voted on by the full five-member FCC within a few weeks. If passed, it would give apartment and condo dwellers a second choice in their broadband services.
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