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).
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