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AFTER midnight -- the FCC decision on AT&T
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:58:51 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Erich M." <me () quintessenz org> Date: October 12, 2007 7:48:36 AM EDT To: Ethan Ackerman <eackerma () u washington edu> Cc: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] midnight ET is deadline on FCC decision on AT&T Ethan, Dave, The ruling is out now. AT&T say they are happy about the ruling. The three Republican governors supported the behemoth, the two Democrats voted against. The ruling says, as I understand the decision, that AT&T, Verizon and Co do not have to submit the pricing of their new products - broadband [wholesale] offers - prior to the FCC. I am not sure if this is all that is interesting, as the FCC document really does have a complexity of its own starting with terms and language. http://www.fcc.gov/101207/FCC-07-180A1.pdf Maybe Prof. Farber can translate this kind of circuit switched pidgin dialect ;) We watch these US proceedings that closely, as the issue is top on topic here. The EU-Commission sues Germany because incumbent Deutsche Telekom refuses to let other providers into their new VDSL-Network. VDSL is a mix of Fiber-to-the-Premises and Fiber-to-the-Node. This week Vienna's municipial utility Wienstrom opened [had to open] their vast citywide optical network to all providers [FTTP/FTTH] Incumbent Telekom Austria got an advantage as usual. They were allowed to buy the small existing "friendly custumer" base of Wienstrom and were the first to offer a new broadband product. 2 Mbit symmetric for 30 Euros a month, half of the price the incumbent sold a comparable ADSL product [2 MBit down,/ 384 KBit up] before. 10 Mbit/sec symmetric is 40 euros. Prices are expected to drop as soon as more providers are connected to the fiber. The eqquipment is from the Swedish company packetfronthttp://www.packetfront.com/export/sites/default/doc_library/ PacketFront_DRG_230_datasheet.pdf http://www.packetfront.com/export/sites/default/doc_library/ PacketFront_BECS_datasheet.pdf
Related news stories in German http://futurezone.orf.at/produkte/stories/224013/ greetz erich Ethan Ackerman wrote:
Greetings Dave, for IP if useful. Erich is correct that October 11th is the deadline, at which point certain commercial broadband services* of AT&T & BellSouth are 'de-regulated' unless the FCC comes out with an order before midnight.The original orders starting this, and giving the Oct. 11 deadline, are here: http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-07-3048A1.pdf - AT&Tandhttp://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-07-3049A1.pdf - BellsouthThe "deregulation" under consideration is from 'common carriage' obligations - these obligations do include (among many other things) non-discrimination requirements sometimes referred to as "net neutrality" obligations. (47 usc 202 for the detail-oriented.) As the article says, Quest's similar application is still pending, and Verizon's similar petition was already granted. It should be noted that the FCC also can (and in the case of Qwest, did) extend the deadline without ruling on it. Tomorrow morning's press and orders list will tell us more....* = packet-based broadband over 200kbps and non-TDM-based optical broadbandOn 10/11/07, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:Begin forwarded message: From: "Erich M." <me () quintessenz org> Date: October 11, 2007 3:51:56 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: midnight ET is deadline on FCC decision on AT&T Dave, There is a FCC decision due at midnight Eastern time - at least thedeadline says so - on AT&T, Qwest and future [non]regulation of US fiberoptic networks. IMHO that is a ruling concerning net neutrality.I just wonder why there is not more praecox media fuzz going on beforein the US. Browsing the news at 21:44 Middle European summertime only Reuters News Agency and my humble self seem to be interested in that matter. ;) http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSPAR15975020071011 greetz from Freud's Own City, Vienna Erich -- NEW PGP KEY http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x007DB429 -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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