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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 20:26:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Aereo wants a TV revolution, if the Supreme Court will let it
Message-ID: <5bdef4d4-d81b-469e-b076-4109dc686224@googlegroups.com>
By Scott Helman, The Boston Globe, June 05, 2014
Can a daring entrepreneur from Newton and his team of
technologists upend the way we watch TV? Only if the Supreme
Court doesn't quash their idea first.
This tiny antenna could revolutionize the way we watch tv. But
first Chet Kanojia needs the Supreme Court to see things his way.
DON'T CALL CHET KANOJIA A DISRUPTER. First, it's hackneyed. "You
go around in [Silicon] Valley, every punk is running around
saying, you know, 'Disrupt, disrupt, disrupt,' " he says. "It's
like, 'Dude, you have no idea what you're talking about.' "
Kanojia, a Newton entrepreneur who's trying to lead a TV
revolution, does know what he's talking about . Which brings us
to his second objection. Disruption, he says, is too often
conflated with destruction, which is not his goal. He's not out
to destroy TV networks or the cable industry, he insists. Just to
make things better for viewers. "Something's gotta give," he
says, citing continued increases in cable rates. "Otherwise you
end up in a system where it's another mortgage payment."
Continued:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2014/06/05/aereo-wants-revolution-supreme-court-will-let/xevtnDRJj9HzbCdVQM22XK/story.html
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Neal McLain
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 20:16:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Reasonableness and Roaming Charges: In Search of More Definite Standards
Message-ID: <8572e677-1a04-4a60-916d-2769fc6ff678@googlegroups.com>
Posted on CommLawBlog on June 5, 2014 by Donald Evans
Sometimes even nationwide carriers need a little reasonableness.
The rates that carriers charge one another for providing roaming
service have never been subject to precise regulatory limits.
Voice roaming has historically been treated as subject to the
traditional common carrier standard, i.e., voice roaming rates
must be "just and reasonable" and "not unreasonably
discriminatory". And, since 2011, data roaming service - which
the FCC has chosen to treat as an "information service" not
subject to common carrier regulation - must be available on
"commercially reasonable" terms. Neither standard lends itself to
ready quantification, a fact which major carriers have taken
advantage of.
As it turns out, this lack of clarity has worked to the
disadvantage of at least one big carrier as well as many smaller
ones.
But now, efforts on a couple of fronts are being made to graft
some useful flesh onto the historically bony standards. A small
carrier has filed a complaint alleging that Verizon's roaming
rates, both voice and data, are unreasonable (commercially and
otherwise) and discriminatory. And, more recently, T-Mobile USA,
Inc. (T-MO) -- by no means a small fish in the telecom pond -- has
asked the FCC to issue an expedited declaratory ruling about how
the term "commercially reasonable" should be interpreted in the
context of data roaming rate negotiations.
Continued:
http://www.commlawblog.com/2014/06/articles/cellular/reasonableness-and-roaming-charges-in-search-of-more-definite-standards/index.html
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Neal McLain
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