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In the United States, Cable Operators were not required to provide access to their facilities to other competing businesses. However, local telephone providers with physical infrastructure, or Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers ( ILEC s), had such an obligation. This asymmetrical scheme of regulation became a problem when the two industries' business came to overlap and the boundary between them eroded. This transformation of industrial landscape, often called Convergence , happened in the broadband Internet Service Provider market. To make matters worse, the cable operators were the leading camp although local telephone carriers were burdened by the open-access obligation. |
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