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RE: D.C. area based ISP's unite

  • From: Mark Segal
  • Date: Wed Jun 19 11:34:22 2002

For those of you in BroadNet, we have a similar thing in Canada, works quite
well.. Check out CAIP http://www.caip.ca, However, fighting the ILECs is
just one of its mandates..

Mark

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Mark Segal
Director, Data Services
Futureway Communications Inc.
Tel: (905)326-1570


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Irwin Lazar [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: June 18, 2002 10:22 PM
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: D.C. area based ISP's unite
> 
> 
> 
> FYI:
> 
> o ISPs Form DC-based Organization To Battle Large Telecom 
> Firms Washington, DC -- About 200 Internet service providers 
> (ISPs) from around the country have formed a new organization 
> based in Washington DC that will battle against what they 
> call "monopolistic local telephone companies" regarding the 
> future deployment of broadband. The new DC-based 
> organization, called The BroadNet Alliance, plans to lobby 
> the federal government on behalf of smaller ISPs. "How 
> America chooses to deploy broadband is one of the most 
> central policy issues of our time. Though there are many 
> voices on the traditional long distance, cable and local 
> telephone sides, the country's independent broadband 
> providers have lacked a clear voice in the debate," said 
> Maura Colleton, Executive Director of BroadNet. 
http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Cpq6WqbWbrenuvtaYoq&FQ