{"id":1211,"date":"2007-10-05T01:23:32","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T18:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2007-10-05T01:23:32","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T18:23:32","slug":"lawmaker-urges-fcc-clampdown-on-access-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/lawmaker-urges-fcc-clampdown-on-access-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmaker urges FCC clampdown on access charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday urged the Federal Communications Commission to help cut fees that major U.S. phone carriers charge rivals for access to high-capacity lines serving business and wireless customers.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House telecommunications subcommittee, said the FCC should reinstate regulations that would force Verizon Communications and AT&amp;T to provide affordable access to high-capacity fiber-optic lines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unless this market failure is corrected, (the fees) could have a negative impact on all wireless broadband deployment&#8230;Markey said at a subcommittee hearing.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/Lawmaker-urges-FCC-clampdown-on-access-charges\/2100-1037_3-6211298.html?tag=txt.alert.hed\">click here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday urged the Federal Communications Commission to help cut fees that major U.S. phone carriers charge rivals for access to high-capacity lines serving business and wireless customers. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House telecommunications subcommittee, said the FCC should reinstate regulations that would force Verizon Communications and AT&amp;T [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-government","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}