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US FCC ends price caps on many business data lines |
April 21, 2017
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to deregulate the providers of the business data lines connecting broadband service to many small businesses, schools, hospitals, and ATM machines.The deregulation of business data services, or BDS, could mean broadband price hikes for those businesses as well as for mobile phone customers, critics said. BDS provides the backhaul that connects mobile towers to the wired internet.The commission's 2-1 party-line vote ends price caps on much of the BDS market across the U.S., while retaining price regulations in about a third of the country.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3191391/internet/us-fcc-ends-price-caps-on-many-business-data-lines.html#tk.rss_all
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