[opendtv] Re: News: Martin Defends Open Access Spectrum Plan

Sounds like you'll have some spectrum for your spectrum utility, Craig.  Not
much value for video, but you can prove the concept with this set-aside.

But, even here, the "Carterfone" decision is inapt.  Having actually read
this decision -- the most important in the history of telephones in the U.S.
-- required all sorts of proof that non-bell phones wouldn't harm the Bell
network.

Some two decades later, the Bell system had all sorts of experiences with
devices on their network that didn't have the protective circuitry.  They
NEVER found a case where network quality was affected by a non-conforming
device.  

The more apt ruling was Computer I -- the decision that mandated the use of
RJ-11 or RJ-45 connectors on all (basic, without house phone or intercom
connections) terminal equipment installed or repaired after that date in
homes or offices.  

We have the fool Ed Market to thank for the "Children's Television Act" and
the E/I label that now must accompany all programming offered under the Act.
The man is an abject fool, but he has a safe set in Taxachusetts.

John Willkie

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Enviado el: Thursday, July 26, 2007 3:59 AM
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Asunto: [opendtv] News: Martin Defends Open Access Spectrum Plan

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6462615.html?display=Breaking+New
s&referral=SUPP&nid=2228

Martin Defends Open Access Spectrum Plan

By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 7/24/2007 1:55:00 PM

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin defended his plan Tuesday to require 22 mHz 
of analog TV spectrum being auctioned for advanced wireless services 
be open to a range of devices and software applications.

At an oversight hearing in the House Telecommunications & Internet 
Subcommittee, Martin said he was not proposing the open access 
conditions to help out Google, which asked for the open access 
condition, promising to bid the minimum $4.6 billion the FCC has set 
as a floor price for the spectrum.

He said Google also wanted the FCC to require the spectrum to be open 
to reselling at wholesale prices, which Martin does not support. 
Martin said his proposal was to benefit consumers instead of just 
one company.

Martin is allied with the two commission Democrats--Michael Copps and 
Jonathan Adelstein-- in support of the access provisions. Republican 
Robert McDowell said he was leaning against it and Republican Deborah 
Taylor Tate said she had not made up her mind.

Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) strongly supports applying 
the Carterfone-like access requirements for the new spectrum (that 
was the decision that forced phone companies to allow outside phones 
to be plugged into network), which is intended to help create a 
competing national broadband wireless network.


 
 
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