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Volume 33 : Issue 61 : "text" Format
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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 15:03:32 +0000 (UTC)
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Do rate centers cross state lines?
Message-ID: <lj3c04$rfk$1@reader1.panix.com>
lilco0408@gmail.com writes:
>Yep, Del Norte County, California, in the northeast corner of
>it, is served by 541-596 (O'Brien, OR)
>[moderator pro tem's note: In general a rate center does not
>cross a state line. But if an area is served by a switch
>across the state line, it's called a locality, and gets its
>own NPA-NXX codes. The Vermont-New Hampshire border is full
>of localities crossing the river. But when Verizon sold
>the states to FairPoint, the locality arrangements with
>Massachusetts, in both directions, had to be rewired to stay
>within each carrier's network. -fg]
As was VA<->WV. Verizontal unloaded WV & had to undo several
cases where a CO in the one state served subscribers in the
other. This was made easier with the evolution of small remotes
eliminating the need for a new CO building.
Another one I recall was on the WY-CO border, but the name
escapes me.
--
A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
& no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 12:26:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Another Aereo story: Inside the tech aiming Aereo through TV's legal hoops
Message-ID: <5c0f2743-3c1f-4254-8a98-f1cf12ba2bbb@googlegroups.com>
Inside the tech aiming Aereo through TV's legal hoops
By Joan E. Solsman, CNET, April 21, 2014 4:00 AM PDT
| Aereo wants to give you broadcast TV on the Web. But it needed
| thousands of mini antennas, high-octane transcoding, and lots of
| air conditioners to build a system it hopes can pass legal scrutiny.
Continued:
http://www.cnet.com/news/inside-the-tech-that-tossed-aereo-through-tvs-legal-hoops/?tag=nl.e404&s_cid=e404&ttag=e404&ftag=CAD1acfa04
-or-
http://tinyurl.com/l6tgruy
This article explains a lot of technical detail behind Aereo's operations.
Neal McLain
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 12:28:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Tomorrow (April 22) is Aereo day at the Supreme Court.
Message-ID: <25bdce3e-969c-499e-9e7f-fa7e54d96c1c@googlegroups.com>
This is a complicated legal case. Three Courts of Appeals have
reached conflicting decisions:
- Aereo won in the First (Boston) and Second (New York) Circuits
http://tinyurl.com/mc5zlu4
- Plaintiffs won in the Tenth Circuit (Denver)
http://tinyurl.com/ozs3xul
When two Courts of Appeals reach conflicting decisions, the Supreme
Court has the final say.
CNNMondey published an excellent summary of the case today (April 21)
by Fortune staff writer Roger Parloff, Senior Editor, Legal Affairs:
| Why the Supreme Court might pull the plug on Aereo
|
| FORTUNE -- For two remarkable years the tiny company Aereo,
| which delivers broadcast TV to smartphones, tablets, and PCs,
| has walked through the valley of the shadow of death.
|
| Armies of litigators, hired by the nation's largest media
| giants, have bombarded it with lawsuits, accusing it of
| flagrant copyright infringement. All the while, Aereo has
| protested its innocence. It's been cleverly engineered,
| it insists, to slip through the cracks of the copyright
| regimen the broadcasters are invoking, and --
| superficial appearances notwithstanding -- it is therefore
| operating completely on the up-and-up.
Continued at
http://tinyurl.com/lwe3ctj
The author cites the 1968 Supreme Court decision in which it
determined that Cable TV companies were not violating copyright law
by retransmitting broadcast stations. But he seems to have omitted
the underlying reason for the Court's decision: the copyright act in
force in 1968 had not been revised since 1909. For obvious reasons,
the Copyright Act of 1909 did not say anything about television, much
less cable television.
See my comment at the end of this article:
http://tinyurl.com/onx42qh
But things have changed since 1968. Congress revised the copyright
act in 1976 and included very specific language regarding the
retransmission of broadcast signals. The Fortune author emphasizes
this:
| The trouble, from Aereo's perspective, with these favorable
| Supreme Court precedents concerning business models quite
| similar to its own, is that Congress explicitly overturned
| both of these rulings in 1976, and did so in very broad
| terms. It said that henceforth it was bestowing upon
| copyright holders an exclusive right over transmissions of "a
| performance or display" of their work "to the public, by
| means of any device or process, whether the members of the
| public capable of receiving the performance or display
| receive it in the same place or in separate places and at the
| same time or at different times."...
So now it's up to the Supreme Court to decide if Aereo's
separate-antenna/separate stream loophole violates the Copyright
Act of 1976.
Neal McLain
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