Table of contents:

* 1 - ILECs want more time to review special access data - Bill
  Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
* 2 - Sponsored Data - "Harold Hallikainen" <harold@hallikainen.org>
* 3 - Community Radio Station off-air after Verizon outage - Bill
  Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>

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Message-ID: <n4pa51$999$1@dont-email.me>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:06:31 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
Subject: ILECs want more time to review special access data

AT&T, CenturyLink, Frontier and Verizon want more time to review special
access data

A group of ILECs -- AT&T, CenturyLink, Frontier, and Verizon -- have
jointly asked the FCC to extend the deadline to submit Direct Cases
related to the regulator's assessment of ILECs' special access rates.

In an FCC filing, this group of service providers said that they won't
be able to access the data related to this proceeding until Dec. 16,
which is two days before the ILECs' Direct Cases are due according to
the regulator's schedule.

http://www.fiercetelecom.com


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Bill Horne
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Message-ID: <7b41b70e39ef86c5e0fbdaec1ddb6491.squirrel@www.hallikainen.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 05:18:59 -0800
From: "Harold Hallikainen" <harold@hallikainen.org>
Subject: Sponsored Data

Sponsored data is an interesting subject. I think it makes sense for a
telecommunications provider to not favor its own content over competing
content (such as a CATV blocking telephone services that compete with that
offered by the CATV). But, I see a parallel between "sponsored data" and
800 numbers over POTS. How is sponsored data different from 800 service
(or collect phone calls for that matter)? Should 800 numbers be outlawed?
Is it possible to have sponsored data rules that are fair and not
anti-competitive?

By the way, you an hear the recent appeals court oral arguments on net
neutrality at:

(Caution — these are large mp3 files — Moderator)

While I really think ISPs are telecommunications services, an interesting
argument is made regarding the statutes on common carriers. To be a common
carrier, a communications service needs to connect to "the public switched
network." From what I understand listening to the oral arguments, the FCC
determined that the PSTN and the Internet are "the public switched
network." Yet a person with a POTS phone can't call an IP address. Are
they "the public switched network?"

Harold



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Message-ID: <n4p9tf$8ca$1@dont-email.me>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:02:29 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
Subject: Community Radio Station off-air after Verizon outage

by Paul Kirby

KINGSTON NY >> Local programming on WGHQ-AM has been knocked off the
air, apparently by Verizon cutting off the signal transmitted through
telephone lines from the station's Uptown Kingston studio to a
transmitter in Port Ewen.

Walter Maxwell, president of Kingston Community Radio,
listener-supported, local programming carried on WGHQ, said the local
programming at 920 AM went off the air sometime over the weekend. The
problem wasn't discovered until Monday, Maxwell said, because on
weekends, the station airs the syndicated programming of Robin Hood
Radio.

http://www.dailyfreeman.com/article/DF/20151214/NEWS/151219819

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