Odd, it appears they may be letting the ILECs off the the hook for providing
dial tone.
And it also appears that the ILECs will be able to charge for providing back
up power.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Hohhof
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 11:02 AM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] FCC Set Top NPRM
Government trying to regulate technology does seem to guarantee they are
always fighting the last war. Or the one before that.
Let's regulate set top boxes, just as they are going away!
Let's require broadband providers to offer POTS and battery backup! And web
browsing history, that's like phone company CDRs, right, so let's require a
PIN number before you can tell the customer his Internet is slow because
he's downloading a 30 GB Xbox game or streaming 3 Netflix movies at once.
Why not require all cars to carry a shovel and bucket in the trunk for
cleaning up the horse poop! And all stores should be required to have a
hitching post and water trough in front.
-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Reynolds
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 11:23 AM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: [AFMUG] FCC Set Top NPRM
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db0218/FCC-16-18A1.pdf
This makes me giggle.
As someone dealing with multiple content providers, middleware,, set
top vendors, channel lineups, encryption systems, and the new purchase
of a small satellite downlink farm, it's going to be incredibly
interesting to see how the content and distribution industry handles
this whole thing. Oh, the advertising folks as well.
*throws hands up in air*
There are a lot of technical concerns as well... for example, what
happens if we move to an app based solution for every device, and
forego multicast? That's going to place a *substantial* burden on ISP
access and transit networks.
