May 26th, 2010 by JanetM

Currently there are four Democratic lawmakers who are interested in reviewing, and possibly making changes, to the current Telecom Law, that was developed in 1996, and are looking to begin this project in June.  However, there are 74 Democratic lawmakers who oppose this project as they feel this would give the FCC more oversight over broadband.  Of course, broadband providers and their lobbyists are protesting this change of the law, and all sides agree that there needs to be more competition within the industry.  The FCC has encouraged slight changes to be made at this time, but that is not making all sides in this issue agreeable.  Taking all things into consideration, it does not seem as though this will be agreed upon to begin in June, which is timeframe that the four Democratic lawmakers would like to begin.

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