By Joey Gardiner, 15 June 1999 13:53
NEWS GTE yesterday attacked US cable operators who it claims are trying to monopolise Internet service provider (ISP) services. GTE said the results of an open access pilot trial with AOL and CompuServe Classic refuted claims by cable companies that offering consumers a choice of ISPs is costly and impracticable. GTE, which runs ISP GTE.net, claims that at present, cable consumers are having to pay twice as much for the ISP of their choice because they already pay to have ISP services bundled with their cable modem service. Large ISPs such as RoadRunner and @Home have signed lucrative bundling deals with the likes of AT&T and Time Warner. George Vradenburg, senior vice president for global and strategic policy at AOL, said that this demonstration proved once and for all that there was no technical reason why cable operators should prevent open access to ISPs. GTE called on regulators to open up choice for the consumer.
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