Washington CEO Inc. Laying the future New lines capable of transmitting vast amounts of data are being installed across Washington state. Here, workers lay conduit for a Tacoma Power system that will bring broadband capacity to a city determined not to be left behind the new age of telecommunications. We have the technology.
Deregulation is law.
And plenty of players want in the game. Still, despite the unleashing of the Internet, despite long-held local phone monopolies opening to competition, despite newcomers vying with incumbents for customers, the promises have not been fully realized. Just as no single technology is expected to prevail in that new world, no one explanation answers those questions. Some blame the local phone companies for moving at what they consider a glacial pace when it comes to opening to competition. Some of those local companies say the regulations they operate under are outdated and leave them to fight one-handed.