According to a News.com piece, the FCC may “suspend public utility commission regulations in California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Louisiana that forced BellSouth to sell DSL, or digital subscriber line, service separate from its local phone service. In the past, the two services had been inextricably linked.”
Good. There should not be a patchwork of different rules around the country on this national service. And as for having naked DSL, the Bells will be forced to do it over time in any case because if they don’t, users will switch to cable or some other alternative. That’s what I plan to do if the Bells here in California don’t change their ways (and, no, the state regulations here in CA have not made it possible for me to get “naked” DSL yet.)