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| Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 10:57:56 -0400
From: Charles Jackson <clj@jacksons.remove-this.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Verizon FiOS coverage said to be "miserable" in New York
Message-ID: <CANog7L70FEVjWfSxoEUVLKtc1VxvDRyW78HgXTTnMAvgeU0QnQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 3:20 AM, HAncock4 wrote:
> On Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 8:52:32 PM UTC-4, Bill Horne wrote:
>
>> Verizon's Coverage Area of New York City for Fiber Optic FiOS is a
>> Miserable 46% to 59%; Upstate New York is Worse.
>
> The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that southern New Jersey also
> suffers from poor FIOS availability despite an agreement with Verizon
> in exchange for an exclusive franchise.
>
> for full article please see:
>
>
> http://goo.gl/exlXzm
>
I read the article and did not find the word "exclusive".
The Communications Act prohibits exclusive cable franchises. 47 USC
541 (a)(1) states "A franchising authority may award, in accordance
with the provisions of this subchapter, 1 or more franchises within
its jurisdiction; except that *a franchising authority may not grant
an exclusive franchise* and may not unreasonably refuse to award an
additional competitive franchise."
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| Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 16:32:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Verizon FiOS coverage said to be "miserable" in New York
Message-ID: <1970902c-b2bf-467c-bdd0-e5300ff0c3a9@googlegroups.com>
On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 3:31:23 PM UTC-4, Charles Jackson wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 3:20 AM, HAncock4 wrote:
> > The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that southern New Jersey also
> > suffers from poor FIOS availability despite an agreement with Verizon
> > in exchange for an exclusive franchise.
> I read the article and did not find the word "exclusive".
>From the article:
"In New Jersey, meanwhile, Trenton lawmakers passed a law
in 2006 granting Verizon a _lucrative franchise_ to wire
hundreds of towns for FiOS."
To me, a "lucrative franchise" meant an exclusive contract.
Otherwise, what would be so lucrative about the franchise?
In any event, the post of the Inquirer article was to show
that other areas had trouble similar to the original post.
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| Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 19:34:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Verizon FiOS coverage said to be "miserable" in New York
Message-ID: <88454f40-da53-4d9c-92e5-f3ba5c3c2c06@googlegroups.com>
On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 2:31:23 PM UTC-5, Charles Jackson wrote:
> I read the article and did not find the word "exclusive".
>
> The Communications Act prohibits exclusive cable franchises.
Indeed it does. But there's nothing "exclusive" about this agreement. It
couldn't be an "exclusive" franchise anyway because it overlaps numerous towns
and municipalities that already have operating franchised CATV systems.
Verizon's franchise agreement with the State of New Jersey doesn't even appear
to be a conventional CATV franchise. It appears to be a creature of the
legislature designed to allow telephone companies to enter the video
distribution business. It does not require state-wide coverage, it does not
require local (town, municipality or county) approval, and it is not
exclusive.
The New Jersey BPU Report to the Governor and Legislature "The Effects Of The
System-Wide Cable Television Franchise in New Jersey" Public Law 2006, Chapter
83, June 2010 states:
While the system-wide franchise option created a hospitable
regulatory change for a provider like Verizon, now no longer
limited to offering cable service under traditional municipal
consent-based franchises, it left parts of the state without the
hope of landline competition. There have been no other applicants
for an initial system-wide franchise. [1]
....
Verizon has never represented it would bring FiOS to its entire
local phone service area in the state and was not required to do so
by the amended [New Jersey) Cable Act. Rather the legislature
required Verizon only to build out a portion of its service
territory. In short, 70 towns are required "full build"
municipalities while the remaining 299 of the total 369 contained
in the system-wide franchise application are not. Prior to the
entry of Verizon, only four New Jersey municipalities enjoyed
head-to-head landline competition. [2]
[1] New Jersey Board of Public Utilities Report to the Governor and
Legislature "The Effects Of The System-Wide Cable Television Franchise in New
Jersey" Public Law 2006, Chapter 83, June 2010, ii (PDF 9).
http://tinyurl.com/o9swf4e
[2] BPU, iii (PDF 10).
Neal McLain
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| Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2015 10:55:43 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: The Seven Minute Morning Prep
Message-ID: <ml1lv5$i74$1@dont-email.me>
John Brandon has come up with a way to cut the leash for a moment at the
start of our day. I recommend that you read The second point several times:
Minute one: Clear your head
I won't get into any religious issues or get preachy here, and I'm
not even encouraging meditation, but every person on the planet who
has to work for a living needs to follow this basic routine. You
have to clear your head. That phone you use to check your messages
constantly or that iPad that's stuck to your hip? Get rid of
them. They are not part of this morning routine. Clearing your head
just means being present as you prepare for the day.
http://goo.gl/m4kiFb
--
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
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| Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2015 19:40:58 +0000
From: Duncan Smith <Duncan@xrtc.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: The Seven Minute Morning Prep
Message-ID: <1A9081C7-464A-4C45-BC49-CF89857BFA0F@xrtc.net>
On June 7, 2015 7:55:43 AM PDT, Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> wrote:
> John Brandon has come up with a way to cut the leash for a moment at
> the start of our day. I recommend that you read The second point
> several times:
>
> Minute one: Clear your head
>
> I won't get into any religious issues or get preachy here, and I'm
> not even encouraging meditation, but every person on the planet who
> has to work for a living needs to follow this basic routine. You
> have to clear your head. That phone you use to check your messages
> constantly or that iPad that's stuck to your hip? Get rid of
> them. They are not part of this morning routine. Clearing your head
> just means being present as you prepare for the day.
>
>
>
> http://goo.gl/m4kiFb
>
*puts on old-man suspenders*
I tried to read that here on the bus, but the text kept moving around
as various ads loaded and the page was reflowed. I don't mind paying
data freight for the ads nearly as much as not being able to read the
page for a full two minutes while all the ad networks have their go at
it.
--
Sent from my neighborhood Western Union office.
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| Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2015 22:54:19 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Opinion: Verizon gets a lot for little money in its deal for AOL
Message-ID: <ml302i$t8s$1@dont-email.me>
By PHILIP VAN DOORN
Maybe the worst thing about AOL Inc. is its name.
It confuses the coverage of the deal announced today, in which Verizon
Inc. plans to acquire AOL Inc. for $4.4 billion in cash.
The name "AOL" associates the current well-run company with one of the
worst corporate tie-ups ever. That was the $103.5 billion acquisition of
the old Time Warner by the old AOL in January 2001. The all-stock offer
made in January 2000 was for $164 billion, but AOL's shares declined
considerably before the deal was completed, as just about everyone
realized AOL's market advantage as a pioneering provider of dial-up
Internet service was going the way of the dodo.
http://goo.gl/b5D6FS
--
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
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| Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2015 22:51:01 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon-AOL: A War of All Against All
Message-ID: <ml2vsb$sri$1@dont-email.me>
Surprising deal suggests a crumbling empire more than it shows the power
of the network
By DENNIS K. BERMAN
When Steve Jobs released the first iPhone in June 2007, Apple Inc. and
Verizon Communications Inc. were worth almost exactly the same in the
public markets: About $115 billion.
What came over the next eight years was one of the greatest transfers
of power and wealth in corporate history. Mobile phone operators - who
had been brutish, intractable gatekeepers to the customer - were
turned into Apple's lackeys.
[snip]
This morning's shock announcement of a Verizon purchase of AOL makes
these big changes ever more clear. Physical communications networks are
less of a competitive advantage. They are becoming table stakes. Google
Inc. and Facebook Inc. are launching gliders and blimps and laying fiber
in the ground; cable TV operators are deploying Wi-Fi workarounds; there
are now mobile-phone carriers in which Wi-Fi is the default; and
cellular technology is the backup.
http://goo.gl/BKVWSW
--
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
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