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we do not want the kind of world that results when no one stands
against crime. - Geoffrey Welsh
| Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 04:13:15 +0000 (UTC)
From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: This has got to stop
Message-ID: <lt6g0r$kf8$1@reader1.panix.com>
Fred Goldstein <fg_es@ionaryqrm.calm> wrote:
:On 8/18/2014 9:24 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote:
:> In article <lstp5v$ek2$1@dont-email.me>,
:> Fred Goldstein <fg_es@ionaryQRM.com> wrote:
:>> Nothing going on there is even within the FCC's actual jurisdiction, let
:>> alone in violation of any rule. After all, this is about content
:>> distribution, not telecom. Netflix doesn't own wire and doesn't even
:>> want to rent any. It's just servers in data centers, a big computing and
:>> content-leasing company.
:>
:> Um, no. Netflix is a content-distribution network. (To the extent
:> that there are "servers in data centers", Netflix leases them by the
:> hour from Amazon.) In some locations they use third-party CDNs, but
:> their big push over the past few years has been to transition this
:> service to their own platform (thereby cutting out middlemen like
:> Akamai).
:>
:What I said, servers in data centers, whether their own or leased. They
:don't own transmission facilities (telecommunications).
Netflix does own (or more likely, has leased, but the difference
doesn't matter to us) quite a lot of fiber.
:> Wrong again. They assume that the cost of Internet bandwidth
:> *within a provider's network* is the responsibility of that
:> provider, to be recovered by the ISP directly from the
:> ISP's customers
:Which is based on the assumption that it's zero. Providers such as
:Verizon have costs, even for distribution, so an application that
:makes a sea change in those costs should pony up, because otherwise
:those of Verizon's customers who don't want to be IP couch potatoes
:will have to pay the added costs forced on them by a service they
:don't use. That strikes me as a valid business decision to leave to
:Verizon.
Verizon, comcast, et al, have internal networks that are capable of
transporting the amount of data they're selling to their customers.
They have made that information available publically, sometimes in a
weird effort to blame netflix. In some places, there may be busy hour
congestion, but there's not much of it, and it's not a real problem
for most customers. Netflix is quite willing to pay the costs of
getting the bits to the edge of Verizon network, Verizon just wants to
get paid twice to deliver them.
:This only applies to large providers. I know of many smaller ISPs who
:couldn't get Netflix into their own networks on a dare or via a bribe.
:And those are the ones with the highest upstream costs.
Totally false. Netflix is willing to peer with anyone who meets
certain technical requirements, and who is located in one of the
(large number) of places they're located in. If you don't meet the
technical requirements, your not a real network, and you probably
aren't peering with anyone. It's very much in netflix's (and other
people who deliver big streams of data to end customers) interest to
peer with anyone who asks.
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Along with other honors, the award carries with it a free copy of the
One True Editor.
Congratulations, David!
Bill Horne
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| Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 13:25:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: T-Mobile offering Sprint, AT&T and Verizon castaways one year of free unlimited LTE data
Message-ID: <20140822172548.F09F3AC6@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
After an unsuccessful union with Sprint, T-Mobile is going after its
former suitor's customers, as well as its other competitors' sub-
cribers in the wireless world. Today, the magenta-colored carrier
announced an aggressive promotional campaign that offers a free year
of LTE data to castaways from AT&T, Verizon, and of course Sprint.
Rest at:
http://9to5mac.com/2014/08/21/t-mobile-offering-sprint-att-and-verizon-castaways-one-year-of-free-unlimited-lte-data/
-or-
http://goo.gl/2ppII7
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| Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 14:40:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon Wireless service restored in Fort Payne area
Message-ID: <20140822184041.32D4BDD5@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
FORT PAYNE, Ala. (WHNT) . A Verizon Wireless spokesperson confirms to
WHNT News 19 that service was fully restored in the Fort Payne area
early Friday morning, after a significant outage.
The service disruption impacted customers Thursday and into the very
early morning hours Friday all throughout the Sand Mountain (Alabama)
area.
http://whnt.com/2014/08/22/verizon-wireless-working-to-repair-service-outage-in-fort-payne-area/
-or-
http://goo.gl/75xBI6
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Bill Horne
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| Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:48:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: State orders Verizon to pay Glen Cove NY higher franchise fee
Message-ID: <20140822194811.0BEF8DD5@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
By TED PHILLIPS ted.phillips@newsday.com
The state Public Service Commission has approved a cable franchise
agreement allowing Verizon to provide service in Glen Cove as long as
it pays the city more money than originally agreed.
On Wednesday, Verizon New York Inc. accepted the regulatory agency's
decision, which increased the amount the company has to pay to be on
par with a franchise agreement between the city and Cablevision. The
decision increases the amount Verizon must pay the city by $57,000 to
$99,000. The PSC also said it expects Glen Cove to negotiate a $57,000
overall reduction in Cablevision's obligations to the city.
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Bill Horne
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| Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:09:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain@annsgarden.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Appeals court shoots down Aereo's latest attempt for retrans license
Message-ID: <591a2e84-905c-4ea2-b792-4a52ffd86902@googlegroups.com>
By Daniel Frankel, FierceCable, August 22, 2014
Aereo's legal losing streak continues, with a federal appeals court refusing
to hear the streaming service's "emergency" argument that it should now be
considered a pay-TV service that pays retransmission fees for broadcast
network programming.
In documents filed Thursday, Aug. 21, and obtained by the Washington Post, the
Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the case should be decided on the
district court level. Aereo is currently litigating against CBS and NBC in the
Southern District of New York.
Seeking to bypass a lengthy trial in that Manhattan district court, Aereo
filed an appeal with the Second Circuit Court in early August, indicating that
it is "bleeding to death" and needs a speedy ruling on its request to receive
a statutory broadcast retransmission license. With its filing Thursday, the
appeals court essentially responded that it's not the right venue for that
argument to be considered.
Continued:
http://www.fiercecable.com/story/appeals-court-shoots-down-aereos-latest-attempt-retrans-license/2014-08-22?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
-or-
http://tinyurl.com/mh4fo4k
Neal McLain
"Texas Cable Guy" in the comment section of the article.
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