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New FCC rules endanger ISPs

Aros Net, Utah’s second-largest independent Internet service provider, grew into a $10 million business in large part by selling its brand of Internet over Qwest’s copper phone lines.

Now Aros, along with hundreds of independent ISPs across the nation, may face possible extinction because of new rules that allow Qwest and other phone companies to kick ISPs off their high-speed Internet, or DSL, lines.

"This could mean major financial difficulties for us," said Aros chief executive Michael Winsett. "This will also raise prices and limit Internet options for consumers. It’s putting a monopoly back in action."

By Ross Wehner
Denver Post Staff Writer

Full Story: http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_2939482

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