[175098] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wifi blocking [was Re: Marriott wifi blocking]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Thu Oct 9 03:58:29 2014
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Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 02:57:54 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 10/9/2014 02:40, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> 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.
Was the translator operator obligated to carry everything from the
source station, or could they turn the translator off if they wanted to?
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