Comment Re:Difficulties .. and Wireless (Score 1) 612
They're NOT Bell's cables.
We paid for them outright, with tax subsidies, with monopoly protection, and with regulated rates much higher than free-market would have supported.
The shared-use providers pay for the use of the coppper wire, just like cable companies pay for use of the power company's telephone poles.
What this ruling says is that they don't have to share this basic infrastructure already setup...