[42813] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: (fwd) [Oz-ISP] USG takes control of xpnder off PAS-2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Sat Sep 22 08:59:40 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Joe Abley' <jabley@automagic.org>,
Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 23:53:02 -0700
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|> From: Joe Abley [mailto:jabley@automagic.org]
|> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 6:22 PM
|> You'd think satellite capacity would be subject to some more
|> international set of regulations than those of the FCC. Are you
|> saying that if I buy preemptable capacity on PAS-N to uplink from
|> New Zealand and downlink to Fiji, that the capacity is subject
|> to preemption by the US Government under FCC rules?
|>
|> Or is there an assumption here that there's an (up|down)link on
|> US soil involved?
I believe that it has more to do with whom owns the bird and what
jurisdiction they are under. US-based companies must follow FCC regs.
