FC: NYT reports on Time Warner flap over 802.11 free access

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Politech messages from last week on this:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03700.html
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03689.html

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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/01/technology/01WIFI.html?pagewanted=print

July 1, 2002
A Dispute Over Wireless Networks

By PETER MEYERS
The New York Times

Time Warner Cable sent some of its New York City cable-modem subscribers
letters last week warning that operating wireless networks and inviting
others to freely share them violated their subscription agreements.

The company's action highlights a potential conflict between a small number
of advocates of free, wireless networking and the broadband providers who
supply their Internet connections.

Fewer than a dozen letters were sent, according to the company, a unit of
AOL Time Warner. The letters cited a clause in the subscription agreement
prohibiting redistribution of the company's Internet connection service.

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