NYC IndyMedia, April 17, 2006
By Lyell Davies

On April 5th the phone company backed COPE Act was "marked-up" and moved out of sub-committee in Washington. The COPE Act follows on the heels of BITS II and earlier controversial legislation that seeks to help the phone companies enter into the Broadband video-service market—and in the process change rules that have for decades successfully governed local telecommunications franchising.

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