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The Telecom Digest for June 7, 2014
Volume 33 : Issue 100 : "text" Format
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Aereo wants a TV revolution, if the Supreme Court will let it (Neal McLain)
Reasonableness and Roaming Charges: In Search of More Definite Standards (Neal McLain)

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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 -or- http://tinyurl.com/oo2wkyb 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 -or- http://tinyurl.com/qcetfjv Neal McLain
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