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FCC classifies BPL-enabled Internet access as "information service"
(Nov 7, 2006)
-- The FCC has declared Broadband over Power Line (BPL)-enabled Internet access service to be an information service. The November 3 Memorandum Opinion and Order (MO&O) in WC Docket 06-10 places BPL-enabled Internet access service on an equal regulatory footing with other broadband services, such as cable modem and DSL. BPL proponent the United Power Line Council had asked the Commission last December to issue a declaratory ruling in the matter. The FCC said competition among broadband services providers will provide consumers with more and better services at lower prices. "The Commission's broadband statistics show that subscribers to BPL Internet access services, although few in number overall, increased by nearly 200% in 2005," FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said in a statement. Specifically, the MO&O finds that the transmission component underlying BPL-enabled Internet access service is "telecommunications," and that the provision of this telecommunications transmission component as part of a functionally integrated, finished BPL-enabled Internet access service offering is an information service. The FCC said the approach it's adopted with respect to BPL is consistent with the framework that it's established for cable modem service and wireline broadband Internet access service.
