• August 11, 2005

Three consumer rights advocates -- Consumers Union and Consumer Federation of America, and media reform group Free Press -- Wednesday called on Congress to reverse last week's ruling by the Federal Communications Commission that telephone companies need not lease DSL lines to competitors, as well as June's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cable companies don't have to share their broadband lines with rivals. The two recent rulings, taken together, create the potential for duopolies where consumers' broadband choices will be limited to either one cable provider or one telecom DSL carrier, said Free Press Communications Director Craig Aaron. -- Wendy Davis