There have been rumblings about AT&T making a move into the open access market, but it would seem totally foreign to anything the company (or companies it's spawned) seem to hold dear. Benoit Felten offers a few comments
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But it is one I'll be following closely. My research and observations of fiber broadband markets around the world have led me to the conviction that infrastructure ownership is no longer a key success factor in broadband service provision, and may in fact be a hindrance. Furthermore, shared wholesale network infrastructure plays appear to be attracting growing investor interest. It would be supremely ironic for AT&T of all incumbents to be the first large-scale one to realize this and act upon it...
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If they do it there are probably a thousand ways to screw it up.
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