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  • From: tom poe <tompoe AT renonevada.net>
  • To: dmcA_discuss AT lists.microshaft.org
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  • Subject: [Community_studios] Consumer Reports In The Digital Age . . . .
  • Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:12:38 -0700

Hi: Here's an interesting site I came across. Maybe there's others that may not know about Consumer Reports going "digital". Here's a sample:
http://www.consumersunion.org/telecom/unfairdc601.htm
Letter to FTC

"Dear Chairman Muris:

We are writing on behalf of Consumers Union the Consumer Federation of America, the Media Access Project and the Center for Digital Democracy to urge you to investigate AOL Time Warner's refusal to carry advertising of phone companies trying to promote DSL Internet service on Time Warner cable systems. This refusal appears to be a violation of both the letter and spirit of the consent decree.

Time Warner cable has denied requests for carriage of DSL advertisements in markets around the country. This anti-competitive behavior appears to violate the letter of the consent decree, as the decree provided an unmistakable requirement that AOL Time Warner must promote the DSL services of other carriers. The Commission's Decision and Order In the Matter of America Online, Inc. and Time Warner Inc. stated clearly that

Respondents shall market and promote DSL Services to Subscribers in those geographic areas in which any of Respondents' Cable Holdings are located and Affiliated Cable Broadband ISP Service or Road Runner is Available at the same or comparable level and in the same or comparable manner as Respondents market and promote DSL Services to Subscribers in those areas in which neither Affiliated Cable Broadband ISP Service nor Road Runner is available. Decision and Order at 12.

It is hard to understand how the Commission could have intended anything but the prevention of exactly the kind of behavior in which AOL Time Warner is engaging."
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Thanks,
Tom Poe
Reno, NV

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