FCC To Boston Airport: You Know We Meant It When We Said You Can't Control WiFi
from the and-again-and-again-and-again dept
Why does this story keep coming up? We have no idea. It's been over two years since the FCC stated in no uncertain terms that airports cannot dictate to airlines how they can offer WiFi. Only the FCC has the authority to regulate the airwaves, and no "landlord" can tell you not to. Yet, for some reason, Boston-Logan International Airport (run by Massport) simply won't give up. Despite the FCC ruling, they tried to tell Continental Airlines it couldn't offer free WiFi at the airport, and later made the entirely bogus claim that this was actually a security issue, and that Continental's free WiFi might interfere with someone else's WiFi and create a security problem. The proper response to that, of course, is to ask why Massport is relying on WiFi for security purposes. Though, honestly, that's really beside the point. The FCC had already made it perfectly clear that the airport can't tell the airlines what to do, so it's no surprise to hear that the FCC is about to explain to Massport that they weren't kidding about that in the past, and that Massport really needs to back off and let Continental offer whatever it wants.
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Massport Is A Hack-a-rama Anyway
If they don't get their cut, they try to stop anyone else. It's just that simple.
Massport is yet another reason I'm so proud to live in this moonbat state.
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I can do it. :)
On another note, this is just another reason I fly out of Manch-Vegas.
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Why does this not surprise me.....
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P.S./Just out of curiosity: Is BOS really a Continental hub? They already have Newark, Cleveland, and Chicago (though if the Delta merger goes though we'll probably loose our hub :( and then be the only city to suck at EVERYTHING... sports, obesity, stress, poverty, politics, you name it... Cleveland sucks at it)
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wifi in terminal E was free from Comcast about 1 y
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Simple confusion...
If the airline wants to have a dedicated DSL or cable line installed and offer wifi over that then fine. But I sure as heck wouldn't allow a renter to install a hotspot on my corporate network.
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Comcast has a deal with MassPort
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Fine?
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Statewide WiFi
It's a pie-in-the-sky proposition right now, but what would WiFi service providers think about that? Ouch.
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Wistah!
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Re: taxes and wifi
for example, in my town of Westford we have had a series of property tax overrides to purchase land that should be kept as green space. green space is a good thing financially for the community since every dollar of tax revenue brought in by a new property creates demand for $1.5 worth of services.
After reading Deval's applause point on statewide WiFi, it's not great happen. It would take way too many access points given the terrain and population density. I think we have a greater chance of success if we make use of the FCC plan to share the VHF television spectrum with a wifi like system. That way we could get greater coverage for a smaller number of access points. We would need a better protocol because the hidden transmitter problem would be even more significant than it is on 2.4 GHz.
no sweat, no taxes
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