NormanS
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San Jose, CA
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Re: This is only the start...
said by bzmeteorite  :That is what I have always understood, at least, that seems to be implied by the FCC requiring that ISPs are CALEA compliant, and CALEA labels them as Common Carriers. Not that this is an authoritative source of any information:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicat···ment_Act
But there seems to be a distinction between "common carriers", and ISP ("facilities-based broadband Internet access providers"), and CALEA classes both as, “telecommunications carriers”.
Does anybody tossing the term "common carrier" about have any clue as to what it really means?
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bzmeteorite
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Nipomo, CA
1 edit | said by NormanS :But there seems to be a distinction between "common carriers", and ISP ("facilities-based broadband Internet access providers"), and CALEA classes both as, “telecommunications carriers”. Does anybody tossing the term "common carrier" about have any clue as to what it really means? Thank you, I wasn't aware of that. So many intricacies of the laws out there - quite daunting. |
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Airwolf7
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Franklin, KY
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said by NormanS :Does anybody tossing the term "common carrier" about have any clue as to what it really means? Planes, trains, and automobiles.
It was meant to level the playing field between companies needing to transport goods from one place to another so that one company would not have a competitive advantage over another one due to getting an "under the table" good buddy deal from transportation companies such as the railroad industry.
In the telecommunications industry I believe it applies to the carriers that the ISPs get their connection to the Internet from and not to the ISPs themselves. |
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NormanS
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