Washington Post: Baby Bells Want Manufacturers' Clout

An unusual meeting last month attended by the CEOs of Verizon Communications, SBC Communications and BellSouth along with representatives of Fujitsu, Intel, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nortel Networks and Siemens AG has raised industry antitrust issues, according to The Washington Post. The purpose of the meeting allegedly was to persuade network equipment manufacturers to join telecom industry lobbying aimed at reforming the broadband regulatory structure. According to the article, the network equipment manufacturers want nothing to do with the idea and resented being asked to choose sides in the regulatory debate. Various complaints have been filed with congressional judiciary committees regarding undue pressure tactics.
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