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>At 04:32 PM 6/19/02, Chris Woodfield wrote: > >>Time Warner agreed to do so as a condition of the AOL merger. Most other >>cable >>companies are fighting this tooth and nail, and winning (see AT&T in >>Portland, >>Oregon). > >And in doing it, so far they seem to only be allowing the likes of >Earthlink, not smaller providers. If anyone's got news to the contrary, I'd >sure like to hear it. AOL/TW has authorized a smaller ISP (around 20,000 subscribers) in our area (central Wisconsin) to offer service over their cable network. Last I heard they were planning on a September start date. >>-C >> >> > Was there not once upon a time there was a proposal to require cable-cos >> > to provide what would effectively be layer-2 service to any IP provider? >> > >> > I think that requirement still stands in Canada, but until newer >> > standards-compliant cable modems become more common it's "hard" to do >> > and so nobody's doing it yet (and there is some whining on both sides). >> > >> > -- >> > Greg A. Woods >> > >> > +1 416 >> 218-0098; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> >> > Planix, Inc. <[email protected]>; VE3TCP; Secrets of the Weird >> <[email protected]> > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >Daniel Senie [email protected] >Amaranth Networks Inc. http://www.amaranth.com -- Frank P. Tower NorthNet, LLC. Managing Director phone: 920.233.5641 email: [email protected] web: www.northnet.net
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