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

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

> On Oct 9, 2014, at 03:57, Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon () cox net> wrote:
>
> On 10/9/2014 02:40, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> Was the translator operator obligated to carry everything from the source station, or could they turn the translator 
> off if they wanted to?

I honestly don't know what the license terms were. I am also not aware of any circumstances where that issue was at all 
likely to come up. 

Owen

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