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by Documents Jun 21 2008 - 11:23am Broadband
The testimony of Harold P. Schroer regarding cell phone early termination fees before the Federal Communications Commission's hearing on the matter.
June 12, 2008
FCC DOCKET NO. 05-194
Good morning ladies and gentlemen, my name is Harold P. Schroer. I live in Southampton, New York. I’m retired and a veteran of World War II.
I am here in my capacity as representative claimant in a certified class arbitration vs. Verizon Wireless challenging the legality of their early termination fees. I represent a class of Verizon Wireless Customers in 49 states, who paid or were charged an ETF, or who had an ETF in their subscriber agreement. The class I represent paid roughly $500 million out-of-pocket to Verizon Wireless, and we are seeking a refund of every penny of that money.
In May, 2003 I had been a Verizon Wireless customer for about two and a half years. During this period, at the suggestion of the Verizon representative, I changed my plan several times. When I reviewed the monthly bill from my last plan I found that it not only cost me more, but it provided me with services I did not need or want.
by Documents May 18 2008 - 4:28pm Broadband
May 13, 2008
Marlene Dortch Secretary Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, NW. Washington, DC 20554
Ex Parte Communication: OET Doc. Nos. 04-186 and 02-380 Experimental License File No: 0209-EX-ST-2008
On Friday, May 9, 2009, David Donovan and Bruce Franca of MSTV contacted the Chief of the Office of Engineering Technology regarding the above-captioned matters. During this conversation we inquired about several aspects of the experimental licenses that were given to Philips Research, NA, a Division of Philips Electronics North America Corp. (hereinafter Philips).
We observed that the initial experimental license granted to Philips for operation from May 1 to June 1 2008 contained the standard requirement that the experimental license be coordinated with the Society of Broadcast Engineers. See Attachment A.
by Documents Jan 22 2008 - 11:34am Broadband
REMARKS OF COMMISSIONER MICHAEL J. COPPS
“FREE MY PHONE”
NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION FORUM
WASHINGTON, DC
JANUARY 22, 2008
Good Morning and thanks to my friend Michael Calabrese and the New America
Foundation for holding another of its forums that have done so much to serve the public
interest. It’s an honor, and somewhat humbling, to speak before this distinguished panel
and what is obviously an expert audience. I’ll try to be brief because I’m just as eager to
hear from the luminaries gathered here as you are.
Over the week-end, I was remembering back to 1970 when I first went to work in
the United States Senate. Our fanciest piece of work-saving equipment was an old robo
machine that cranked out pretty awful-looking mass mailings. Everything else was typed
by hand and when Selectric typewriters came along, we all fought tooth-and-nail to be
one of the lucky few to get one. When the Senator dictated even a minor change to a
speech draft, his personal secretary had to retype the entire text. When we needed to
phone back to the state, we had a WATS line, but initially we shared it with a more senior
by Documents Jan 15 2008 - 6:25pm Broadband
PUBLIC NOTICE
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th St., S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20554
News Media Information 202 / 418-0500
Internet: http://www.fcc.gov
TTY: 1-888-835-5322
DA 08-91
Released: January 14, 2008
COMMENT SOUGHT ON PETITION FOR DECLARATORY RULING REGARDING
INTERNET MANAGEMENT POLICIES
WC Docket No. 07-52
Comment Date: February 13, 2008
Reply Comment Date: February 28, 2008
The Wireline Competition Bureau seeks comment on a petition1 filed by Free Press et al.
(Petitioners), seeking a declaratory ruling “that the practice by broadband service providers of degrading
peer-to-peer traffic violates the FCC’s Internet Policy Statement” and that such practices do not meet the
Commission’s exception for reasonable network management.2
This Public Notice establishes certain procedural requirements relating to consideration of the
Free Press et al. Petition for Declaratory Ruling. This matter shall be treated as a “permit-but-disclose”
proceeding in accordance with the Commission’s ex parte rules. See 47 C.F.R. §§ 1.1200, 1.1206.
by Documents Jan 12 2008 - 8:42am Broadband
From the San Jose Mercury News
By Matt MarshallVentureBeat 11/14/2007
Barack Obama will unveil several new technology policy initiatives today during a visit to Silicon Valley, including a proposal for a national technology czar called a "chief technology officer," VentureBeat has learned.
The Democratic presidential candidate comes to California seeking to bolster his standings here, where he currently trails front-runner Hillary Clinton in most opinion polls.
Obama's tech agenda, including the CTO proposal, should play well with the employees at Google, the Mountain View search engine, where Obama will visit this afternoon, among other stops.
The CTO's mandate under the plan is significantly different from the cybersecurity czar position created by the Bush administration. The CTO's main responsibility would be to ensure the government holds open meetings and records live Webcasts of those meetings, and that blogging software, wikis (Web site pages where multiple people can edit a document at the same time) and open comments be used to communicate policies with Americans.
by Matthew Lasar Jan 10 2008 - 6:39pm Broadband
"We intend to issue shortly a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to propose and seek comment on additional steps the Commission might take to further implement the Call Home Act and thus further reduce the cost to military personnel of calling home."
So the Federal Communications Commission declared on January 18th of last year. As the first anniversary of that promise approaches, LLFCC can find no sign that it will be kept. A spokesperson for the FCC contacted by this blog declined to comment on when such a proceeding might begin.
To recap: Congress passed the Call Home Act in December of 2006: "A bill to direct the Federal Communications Commission to make efforts to reduce telephone rates for Armed Forces personnel deployed overseas."
The FCC initially followed through on the mandate by permitting phone companies not to charge Universal Service Fund (USF) and Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) tolls on Armed Forces personnel collect calls, or those made with pre- and post-paid calling cards. The USF funds telephone service for low income families; TRS finances and regulates telecommunications services for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
by Documents Oct 29 2007 - 4:53pm Broadband
Residential Consumers and Businesses to be Hit by Substantial Increases in Monthly Telecom Bills
This just in from the anti-forbearance guys. The whole study is available at http://www.xo.com/QSI_Study_FF102907.pdf —LLFCC
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Verizon’s bid for local deregulation will trigger $2.4 billion in higher charges for customers in six major mid-Atlantic and Northeastern cities if granted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), finds a new study by leading market research organization, QSI Consulting.
The QSI Study, “An Analysis of Verizon’s Petition for Forbearance: A Quantification of the Impact of Forbearance,” presents the first in-depth examination of the damage that would result from a grant of Verizon’s petitions for forbearance from the pro-competitive local loop and transport unbundling obligations of the 1996 Telecom Act.
QSI tracks the chain reaction of economic harm that would result from forbearance in six cities targeted by Verizon for regulatory forbearance: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Pittsburgh, Virginia Beach and Providence.
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