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- FCC sets airport WiFi precedent. Battle lines drawn?
- In a decision that will most certainly prove to set a precedent for all American airports and that draws a very clear line in the sand, the FCC has rejected the assertions of Logan International Airport Boston officials who have maintained that they have the right to prevent Continental Airlines...
- Tags: Massport, Wi-Fi, Logan International, Government, Wired &, Wireless, Personal Technology, Mobile, Legal, General
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- FCC sets airport WiFi precedent. Battle lines drawn?
- In a decision that will most certainly prove to set a precedent for all American airports and that draws a very clear line in the sand, the FCC has rejected the assertions of Logan International Airport Boston officials who have maintained that they have the right to prevent Continental Airlines...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Wired & Wireless, Mobile, Government, Legal, Berlind, Logan International, Wi-Fi, Massport
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- Why Wi-Fi competition is good for Logan, and for Boston
- By now, some of you know that after a 17-month battle, the Federal Communications Commission decided last week to let Continental Airlines provide Wi-Fi service at its Presidents Club facility at Boston's Logan International Airport. That's a peek at the Presidents Club. Massport, which runs Logan, had claimed the...
- Tags: General, Regulatory, WiFi, Logan International, Wi-Fi, Massport
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
- Who owns the air?
- MassPort, the Massachusetts agency that runs Boston's Logan Airport, is demanding that Continental Airlines shut down its free hotspot. Airport officials say the Wi-Fi radio in Continental's customer lounge poses an "unacceptable potential risk" to police and other security transmissions, according to a News.com report. A more likely reason, notes...
- Tags: Massport
- Blog posts 2005-08-08
- Will Boston airport Wi-Fi riff set an ugly precedent?
- Will Boston airport Wi-Fi riff set an ugly precedent?Real motivesIf home land security was this pathetic, I'm really worried." For example, what might happen if a piece of WiFi-enabled gear belonging to the TSA mistakenly attached itself to the wrong network? Two of my neighbors, both of whom run their...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, Massport
- Discussion threads 2005-08-05
- Will Boston airport Wi-Fi rift set an ugly precedent?
- With both amusement and horror, I've been following a dispute that has erupted between Continental Airlines and MassPort -- the Massachusetts agency that runs Boston's Logan Airport -- over Continental's installation of a WiFi network that's freely available to some of its customers for Internet access. Not only has...
- Tags: network, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi network, Massport
- Blog posts 2005-08-05
- Who owns the air?
- Unlicensed frequencies are supposed to be open to anyone who puts in a device that conforms to regulations.But what if your landlord says you can't, because they want to sell access to the unlicensed frequency?A court may have to decide this one. As Declan McCullagh reports, Logan Airport is trying...
- Tags: Massport
- Blog posts 2005-08-05
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- FCC: Boston airport can't block airline's Wi-Fi
- FCC: Boston airport can't block airline's Wi-FiNice...Now if the FCC would stop ignoring the real interference BPL is injecting into the amateur, business and emergency bands all over the country.The problem is that the BPL industry has a large lobbying effort funded by the electric utilities, whereas Massport in Boston...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Broadband over power line, Federal government, WIRELESS, Food & Beverage, Wi-Fi, FCC
- Discussion threads 2006-11-01
- Ground zero for credibility in blogging and journalism
- This blog entry originally started as an e-mail to media academicians (ie: John Palfrey, Jay Rosen, and David Weinberger), media revolutionaries (ie: Dave Winer, Jason Calacanis, and Dan Gillmor), public relations/marketing mavens (ie: Andy Lark and Steve Rubel), and media researchers such as Forrester's Charline Li. Then I...
- Tags: blogging, spectrum, graph, blogger
- Blog posts 2005-08-05
- Who owns the air?
- Who owns the air?What has open source to do with it?Or is that just a silly attempt to get the words "open source" into every blog/article?We the PeopleBy virtue of the Interstate Commerce Clause and the Federal Communication Act 0f 1934 et Al. A) Unlicensed is wrong since all of...
- Tags: Government, Continental, open source
- Discussion threads 2005-08-05
- Boston airport tries to kill free WiFi node
- Boston airport tries to kill free WiFi node7.,95 a day...7.95 a day for service from the airport, versus free from Continental.I never spend a whole day at the airport, unless I got snowed in. Is 7.95 a day fair? I can see how the airport views this...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, Logan, Continental
- Discussion threads 2005-08-03
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