Verizon Favors Narrower Bill

[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Ted Hearn]
Verizon is calling on Congress to scrap the notion of major telecommunication reform this year and instead focus on legislation that would make it easier for telephone companies to enter video delivery markets and compete with cable. But House Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-TX) has no plans to follow the advice. "We are still planning on going with regular order -- subcommittee, then full committee markup -- with a comprehensive broadband-regulatory-reform bill similar to what we proposed already in our draft bill," Terry Lane, a spokesman for Rep Barton, said. But Chairman Barton's broad telecommunications bill has failed to generate wide support, creating the need for a more narrow solution, said a Verizon executive last week.
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