Fact and Comment

摘要

Talk about rank, crass hypocrisy: cable-tv companies are aggressively offering consumers telephone service over their cable lines, and they do so without being burdened by many of the regulatory obstacles with which traditional carriers, such as SBC and Verizon, must cope. At the same tirne, telephone outfits are pushing to be allowed to deliver television and audio services over their fiber-optic lines to more and more households, and guess who's yelping like whipped dogs—and lobbying like pit bulls—to prevent it?