This will enable competitive LECs to compete with incumbent LECs to provide to consumers xDSL-based services through telephone lines that the competitive LECs can share with incumbent LECs. In addition, we adopt spectrum management policies and rules to facilitate the competitive deployment of advanced services. Internet As campaigns for the 2000 presidential elections begin to heat up, the candidates are eager to prove themselves Internet savvy and tech industry friendly. When it comes to Internet policy, one of the most politically charged of the issues may be whether and how to apply sales taxes to electronic commerce. The site will allow visitors to gather information on politicians and issues and then voice their opinions about each.
Critics consider polling on the Internet to be highly controversial.
Ron Howard, who came up with the idea for SpeakOut, says the site will be nonpartisan and fully operational in January. SpeakOut will collect opinions from people who write in and conduct Internet polls and then sell the results to special interest groups, campaigns and other organizations or individuals. Howard has lured former Reagan White House deputy chief of staff Michael Deaver, Kerry Kennedy Cuomo and Susan Eisenhower to serve on a board of advisers. SpeakOut will sell only statistical results, not personal information such as names and e-mail addresses. Gov Gilmore, the group's chairman, will push a proposal to give online commerce a permanent tax exemption.