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[telecom] Football team settles suit over text messages to fans for $3 million
Football team settles suit over text messages to fans for $3 million The Buffalo Bills went to court over texting fans one (or two) too many times. by Casey Johnston Apr 23 2014 Ars Technica A...
 
[telecom] F.B.I. Informant Is Tied to Cyberattacks Abroad
F.B.I. Informant Is Tied to Cyberattacks Abroad By MARK MAZZETTI APRIL 23, 2014 WASHINGTON - An informant working for the F.B.I. coordinated a 2012 campaign of hundreds of cyberattacks on foreign...
 
[telecom] In Policy Shift, F.C.C. Will Allow a Web Fast Lane
In Policy Shift, F.C.C. Will Allow a Web Fast Lane By EDWARD WYATT APRIL 23, 2014 WASHINGTON - The principle that all Internet content should be treated equally as it flows through cables and pipes to...
 
Re: Telco Simulator - Design Challenge? [telecom]
[moderator pro tem's note: I don't generally suggest replying to 19-year-old questions. They're probably not timely.] http://www.vikingelectronics.com/products/pdf/dle-200b.pdf
 
Do rate centers cross state lines? [telecom]
There were a number of these border crossing situations were one office would be reached through a different NPA-Prefix arrangement. McDermitt Nevada 775-732 and Quinn, Oregon, 541-522 (or from an...
 
Wireless transit information kiosks [telecom\ [telecom]
The New York MTA has announced a trial of real-time passenger information display screen kiosks that require no power or data wiring. This can save substantial money in installation, especially in...
 
[Telecom] California measure may reduce cost of phone calls from prisoners
Collect telephone calls from prisoners in the United States can be extremely expensive, partly because of commissions paid by the long distance carrier to the prison administration. California already...
 
Transcript of the Aereo case [telecom]
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES, INC., ET AL., Petitioners v. AEREO, INC., FKA BAMBOOM LABS, INC. Washington, D.C. Tuesday, April 22, 2014 of the United...
 
An Internet-on-Airplanes Upgrade [telecom]
By Mitchell Lazarus, CommLawBlog, April 21, 2014 Continued: -or- Neal McLain http://www.commlawblog.com/2014/04/articles/wireless-telephony/an-internetonairplanes-upgrade/index.html...
 
Tomorrow (April 22) is Aereo day at the Supreme Court. [telecom]
This is a complicated legal case. Three Courts of Appeals have reached conflicting decisions: - Aereo won in the First (Boston) and Second (New York) Circuits - Plaintiffs won in the Tenth Circuit...
 
Another Aereo story: Inside the tech aiming Aereo through TV's legal hoops [telecom]
Inside the tech aiming Aereo through TV's legal hoops By Joan E. Solsman, CNET, April 21, 2014 4:00 AM PDT | Aereo wants to give you broadcast TV on the Web. But it needed | thousands of mini...
 
Kanojia: Aereo lets consumers 'think outside the cable bundle' [telecom]
By Jim Barthold, FierceCable, April 17, 2014 Aereo Founder-CEO Chet Kanojia probably didn't make any new friends within the cable industry when he told Yahoo News' Katie Couric that his company allows...
 
Picturephone at the 1964 NY World's Fair [telecom]
"When they showed off their cutting-edge invention to awed audiences at the World's Fair in 1964, the creators of the Picturephone had the future both completely wrong and completely right. Designers...
 
Aereo Update: Alito Back On The Case [telecom]
By FHH Law, CommLawBlog, April 16, 2014 In case you ever wondered whether there's such a thing as "unrecusal" - and, frankly, we hadn't - here's the answer: yes. The Supreme Court has announced that...
 
Aereo will have tough time proving its case, legal experts say [telecom]
By Jim Barthold, FierceCable, April 16, 2014 Aereo is going to have a hard time proving its right to exist when takes its case to the Supreme Court April 22, according to legal experts asked to...