Re: wifi blocking [was Re: Marriott wifi blocking]

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Oct 9, 2014, at 12:16 AM, Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon () cox net> wrote:

> On 10/9/2014 02:03, Owen DeLong wrote:
> > On Oct 8, 2014, at 2:11 PM, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 4:37 PM, joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com> wrote:
> > > > On 10/8/14 1:29 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
> > > > > On 10/8/2014 08:47, William Herrin wrote:
> > > > > > BART would not have had an FCC license. They'd have had contracts with
> > > > > > the various phone companies to co-locate equipment and provide wired
> > > > > > backhaul out of the tunnels. The only thing they'd be guilty of is
> > > > > > breach of contract, and that only if the cell phone companies decided
> > > > > > their behavior was inconsistent with the SLA..
> > > > >
> > > > > OK that makes more sense than the private answer I got from Roy.  I
> > > > > wondered why the FCC didn't take action if there was a license violation.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/technology/fcc-reviews-need-for-rules-to-interrupt-wireless-service.html?_r=0
> > >
> > > > From the article: "Among the issues on which the F.C.C. is seeking
> > > comment is whether it even has authority over the issue."
> > >
> > > Also: "The BART system owns the wireless transmitters and receivers
> > > that allow for cellphone reception within its network.”
> >
> > I’m not sure that statement is accurate. However, there is no prohibition against owning a Microcell or other 
> > cellular station which is operated by a third party under said third party’s license.
> >
> > > I'm not entirely clear how that works.
> >
> > If that were truly the case (and I don’t think it is, given BART statements that “...the cellular providers are 
> > basically tenants and are as such subject to…”), I’m pretty sure it would be operated by the cellular carrier under 
> > their license as a non-owner of the equipment.
>
> What where the laws and practices in the Olde Days of over-the-air TV when somebody in a small town installed a 
> translator to repeat Big-Cities-TV-Station into a small town?

The translator had to be operated by a holder of an FCC license for that translator.

Operator and Owner are not necessarily linked in any way shape or form, though they usually were one and the same.

Owen