EarthLink CEO Garry Betty knows that his company faces a slew of challenges in the next decade but still believes that the Internet service provider can thrive in a new--and perhaps very different--Internet era.
Not only is EarthLink losing dial-up customers, but its broadband business took some blows earlier this year on the regulatory front. First, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cable companies don't have to share their networks with ISPs. Soon after, the Federal Communications Commission said the same thing about DSL providers. For EarthLink, which depends on access to these networks to sell its broadband Internet service, the news was bad.
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Oct 18, 2005, 10:05 PM
