according tot he Chicago Tribune's story on the topic, Powell's "fierce opposition" was to the rest of the ruling, in which the Big 4 pigopoly was not allowed to rape the long distance companies for using hteir lines to provide service. Powell actually likes these two provisions.

Arkadiy is right...he is an asshole. And imric's also right in that this is the wave of the future (i.e. fucking the consumer in favor of monopoly power) unless and until we remove the "head selected bastards" from office ASAP!