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Free From State Regulation Will FCC decision on DSL carry a larger impact?The Federal Communications Commission has ruled, in a 3-2 vote yet to be announced, that states no longer had authority to regulate digital subscriber lines offered by BellSouth and other providers, as reported in the Los Angeles Times this decision, companies such as BellSouth would no longer be required to sell high-speed Internet service to voice customers of rival firms. "The larger impact is that it would put the commission on record saying that there should be a national broadband policy and not one any state could opt out of," said BellSouth spokesman Bill McCloskey.
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