One thing about it, if they do a great job, then it is one more reason to
belong to WISPA.
From: Ken Hohhof
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 12:25 PM
To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group'
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] FCC Enforcement Actions
Several years back on the first version of the FCC transparency requirements, I
paid a telecom law firm to draft disclosure documents for us. It was a
disaster and I just walked away from it. Typical lawyers, they wanted to do
very extensive questionnaires and interviews basically to find all the devious
things we were doing so we could disclose them in infinite detail and proper
legalese. It was crazy. I couldn’t get across that we probably didn’t do any
of that stuff, we just wanted a very basic disclosure document to satisfy the
FCC requirements. Lawyers don’t understand simple, and they don’t understand
the difference between evil empires like AT&T or Comcast, and some little WISP
just trying to deliver Internet to local folks.
I’m expecting WISPA will do better.
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Daniel White
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 12:54 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] FCC Enforcement Actions
WISPA will be adding a lot of boiler-plate documents like this once the new AMS
platform is launched by the end of the month.
2020 is going to be an exciting year for the organization.
Daniel White
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Operations
phone: +1 (702) 470-2766
direct: +1 (702) 470-2770
ch...@wbmfg.com wrote on 12/11/19 08:56:
One would think that WISPA could provide some boilerplate that gives everyone
the maximum latitude to do what they want while providing letter-of-the-law
coverage of the compliance requirements.
From: Adam Moffett
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 8:28 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] FCC Enforcement Actions
Yes. And I bet a lot of WISPs comply by using some copy-pasta from someone
else's website and just change the name. Big providers will comply by having
the disclosure somewhere on their website but buried under a nest of links that
nobody will follow.
Most consumers will be too lazy to find these factual disclosures, and the
ones that do seek them will have trouble finding them, and the ones that find
something will find boiler-plate wishy washy legalese saying "I'll manage my
network both neutrally and also however I want to".
</cynicism>
On 12/11/2019 10:21 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
THis is a shot across the bow to us though to get with the program.
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 9:20 AM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I think in my 15 years here, maybe two customers read the terms of
service, and probably only one of them would read the disclosure
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 9:03 AM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:
I doubt any consumers are making choices based on legally mandated
disclosures.
....but I can't claim to understand humans.
On 12/11/2019 8:04 AM, can...@believewireless.net wrote:
I thought this was odd: " By failing to comply with the Transparency
Rule, the Company has deprived consumers of critical information that must be
available when selecting Internet service in the marketplace. As the Commission
has previously stated, clear disclosures help consumers make well-informed
choices about their purchase and use of broadband Internet access services."
If you were comparing ISPs based on their disclosures and the one you
were looking at didn't have one, wouldn't you just move onto the next provider?
If they are the only provider available, would it really matter then?
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