Communications Daily

Competitive Broadband Coalition sent letter to Congress Nov.9 responding to GTE ad campaign that attacks competitive carriers and their ability to provide Internet service. Coalition,responding to GTE's allegation that communities are being left out of high-speed connections to Internet, said GTE is ignoring presence of Internet carriers with DS-3 speeds and said GTE and Bell companies are "deliberately delaying the opening of their monopoly local telephone networks to competition that stymies the widespread offering of competitive broadband telecommunications services." Local ISPs, not GTE, are capable of determining what capacity is needed, Coalition said.