Telcos Seek Legislative Overhaul

With the growth of broadband, digital, wireless communications, DBS and actual competition across video/voice/data markets, the telcos look to change provisions that, the industry argues, represent a business already fundamentally changed...with telcos seeing POTS diminishing in value and choice, they need as open and unregulated a marketplace as possible...always a complex and difficult legislative are where giants have competing interests and the kinds of ultimate legislative compromises that never please everyone and often contain unintended surprises..