Ditto... Brad
-----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 5:43 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Court: No exclusive cable rights in apartments Can we please have our government stay out of business and let capitalism run its course? I think their time would be better spent (or wasted) doing what they do best - politics and wasting time. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Tom DeReggi <wirelessn...@rapiddsl.net>wrote: > 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" <t...@ida.net> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > 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! 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