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From: Mike & Debbie (no email)
Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 14:00:30 EST
You are right as far as you go, but the provider's Terms Of Service that were
agreed to by the purchaser may very well ban "commercial" or "reuse" of the
signal transmission capacity. If so, the purchaser is likely to be in violation
and subject to penalties or cancellation of service. So from a legal
perspective, it is not a regulatory issue (where it is probably completely
legal), but a possible service contract issue.
Broadband providers are bound to plug these legal loopholes within the next
12-18 months so I'd be a bit hesitant to invest a either a lot of money or
development effort into establishing an local, alternative network. If it's
basically no money and no effort, then go for it for as long as practical. Soon
signal sharing and WiFi in general will be restricted in the same manner as
cable and satellite TV are today.
Regards:
Michael H. Horrell (former 20 year telecom consultant)
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Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: lv-ab: business on board
From what I have read, it is legal. I really haven't even read any thing
that signing on oneone elses non--password protected network spilling out onto
the street is illegal. The technology is only a few years old, so there is
not much regulation.
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