The FCC exempted phone companies from having to lease lines to internet service providers. They did this by re-classifying broadband as an “information service”, which was ruled not to be subject to line-sharing.
In the words of Light reading the FCC ruled that the physical facilities that deliver broadband, and the broadband service itself are indistinguishable and inseparable. The two things together — the facility and the service — are now called an
I agree the FCC did the wrong thing here the phone companies should have to lease the line sby law since the internet is a public interest adn that since the world wars the government and telecommunnications industry have been holding hands and sharing technology with one another basically tax dollars funding AT&T and so forth. Our tax dollars payed for the lines to go up Imagine this our tax dollars pay for our roads ut then being able to drive on those raods its messed up.