Poll Finds Educators Endorse Creation of Fiber-Optic System
WASHINGTON--Providing new ammunition for the nation's telephone companies in their quest to revise federal laws to gain access to the lucrative video programming market, a national polling organization reports that educators it surveyed endorse the establishment of a nationwide fiber-optic-based telecommunications system.
The Roper Organization, a New York-based market-research firm, surveyed 201 education policymakers and an equal number of health-care policymakers in the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas in December and January to compile the survey.
The results, released here last week, show that 79 percent of the educators surveyed support legislation to create such a network and that 84 percent think telephone companies should be allowed to compete with cable operators in...
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