[175033] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wifi blocking [was Re: Marriott wifi blocking]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Wed Oct 8 16:29:46 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 15:29:39 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>, Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <0dnv1p01507cg5T01dnwJd>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 10/8/2014 08:47, William Herrin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/7/2014 10:35 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
>>> On 10/7/2014 23:44, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 23:10:15 -0500, Larry Sheldon said:
>>>>> The cell service is not a requirement placed upon them, I am pretty
>>>>> sure.
>>>>
>>>> However, once having chosen to provide it, and thus create an expectation
>>>> that cellular E911 is available, they're obligated to carry through on
>>>> that.
>>>>
>>> Obligated by what law, regulation, rule or contract?
>>
>> Obligated by the FCC license
>
> Hi Larry, Roy:
>
> 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.
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