No real competition for the ILECs at all, anytime soon. This is Kettle, come in, over. Pot calling Kettle, over. It's not the RBOCs wanting access to the cable television networks. They do wonder why the RBOCs are forced to open their networks while the cable television industry is not and they also have a monopoly.
Monopolies are bad for everyone.
Without the CLECs we would all still be on 56K modems or business T1's for thousands a month. The ILECs had the tech to roll out DSL on their own many many years ago but didnt as their T1's were their favored cash cow. It wasn't until the CLECs came out with the cheaper DSL that the RBOCs started moving. Tauzin-Dingle will remove those same CLECs and the RBOC reason for pushing DSL will go away again. They are simply playing to their strengths.