No not really. It allows FIOS triple play to be installed. The ruling, that passed the first time last year (this was the appeal), stated that "Cable Company's rights" to negotiated exclusivity could not be upheld or inforces. There is nothing that prevents the "landlord MTU owner" rights to honor and continue to offer exclusivity to Cable Co contracts, if they want to. And there is nothing to require the Cable Co to continue offering service (unless part of their state/county wide franchise agreements). So it enables competition. The new provider now has to be able to offer the MTU owner/landlord better value than the Cable Co did, to gain the owner's support. The rule didn't take ownership of the coax away from teh Cable Co, nor does it require the Cable Co to share it. For a WISP to use the COAX, the WISP would need to either gain permission from the Cable Co to use it, or have the Cable Co abandon the Coax so it became property of the MTU owner, neither of which is likely. Most likely, the WISP would ahve to deploy their own new cabling, which would make it impossible to offer better value than teh Cable Co, without atleast a double play.
This will actually harm WISPs. Now WISPs will have to compete with "both" Cable Cos and FIOS within a building :-( Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Travis Johnson" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 4:46 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Court: No exclusive cable rights in apartments > Wow.... this just opened up every single MTU in the nation as a > potential customer for everyone on this list... and the building is > already cabled with coax... just need to find some cheap "head-end" > units to feed internet over the coax. :) > > Travis > Microserv > > Scottie Arnett wrote: >> http://www.cedmagazine.com/News-exclusive-cable-rights-apartments-052609.asp >> x >> >> Scottie Arnett >> >> --- >> [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] >> >> >> Wireless High Speed Broadband service from Info-Ed, Inc. as low as >> $30.00/mth. >> Check out www.info-ed.com/wireless.html for information. >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
