On Oct 9, 2014, at 12:16 AM, Larry Sheldon <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/9/2014 02:03, Owen DeLong wrote: >> >> On Oct 8, 2014, at 2:11 PM, William Herrin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 4:37 PM, joel jaeggli <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On 10/8/14 1:29 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote: >>>>> On 10/8/2014 08:47, William Herrin wrote: >>>>>> BART would not have had an FCC license. They'd have had contracts with >>>>>> the various phone companies to co-locate equipment and provide wired >>>>>> backhaul out of the tunnels. The only thing they'd be guilty of is >>>>>> breach of contract, and that only if the cell phone companies decided >>>>>> their behavior was inconsistent with the SLA.. >>>>> >>>>> OK that makes more sense than the private answer I got from Roy. I >>>>> wondered why the FCC didn't take action if there was a license violation. >>>> >>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/technology/fcc-reviews-need-for-rules-to-interrupt-wireless-service.html?_r=0 >>> >>>> From the article: "Among the issues on which the F.C.C. is seeking >>> comment is whether it even has authority over the issue." >>> >>> Also: "The BART system owns the wireless transmitters and receivers >>> that allow for cellphone reception within its network.” >> >> I’m not sure that statement is accurate. However, there is no prohibition >> against owning a Microcell or other cellular station which is operated by a >> third party under said third party’s license. >> >>> I'm not entirely clear how that works. >> >> If that were truly the case (and I don’t think it is, given BART statements >> that “...the cellular providers are basically tenants and are as such >> subject to…”), I’m pretty sure it would be operated by the cellular carrier >> under their license as a non-owner of the equipment. > > What where the laws and practices in the Olde Days of over-the-air TV when > somebody in a small town installed a translator to repeat > Big-Cities-TV-Station into a small town? The translator had to be operated by a holder of an FCC license for that translator. Operator and Owner are not necessarily linked in any way shape or form, though they usually were one and the same. Owen
