ISPs Challenge Wireline Phone Companies' Control

EarthLink Inc., Time Warner Telecom Inc. and a host of small Internet service providers went to court to challenge regulatory action that they say puts wireline phone companies in control of high-speed broadband access to the Web. In arguments before a federal appeals court, the Internet service providers, or ISPs, challenged a Federal Communications Commission decision to lift regulations that required companies that run wireline phone networks to sell access to competing sellers of broadband service.

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