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...Communications, Verizon and the much smaller Qwest to lease their networks to competitors at lower prices, rivals like AT&T and MCI are for the first time snapping up some of the most lucrative customers. "Now we have a real fight," says former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Reed Hundt, a key architect of the 1996 landmark legislation...
...misadventure isn't likely to derail the AOL deal. As former FCC chairman Reed Hundt puts it, "Those people who might [have been led to] think AOL-Time Warner is a big, scary company already know how big and scary it is." But there was a big rush on satellite dishes in Houston last week, and a heightened sensitivity to the power of the cable companies. Officials in many cities have been looking toward Portland, Ore., which drew upon its power to approve a change in ownership of the city's cable systems to win concessions from AT&T when...
...best minds in the party came down to Austin, Texas, to help school him on everything from China policy to the complexities of the earned-income tax credit, Gore too has a history of arranging tutorials to help him hone his views: with Leon Fuerth on arms control, Reed Hundt on the new economy, the late Harvard professor Roger Revelle on climate change...
...company's request for specific action, though defenders say the Senator was acting in accordance with his long-standing belief that federal agencies should not interfere in the free market. "What's wrong is when someone does something he doesn't believe in because of a donation," says Reed Hundt, former FCC chairman. "That is not John McCain...
...enhance Gore's presidential prospects. "This was not to be a political cash-grant program so that Al Gore can run for President," Tauzin complains. Gore's allies insist it is the Republicans who are playing politics. "This is a Clinton and Gore signature item," says former FCC Chairman Hundt. "The divisive, partisan, do-nothing Congress would rather not see something succeed than see it succeed on terms that would be regarded as positive for the Democrats...