Access to cable Wi-Fi must be a condition if the...
Access to cable Wi-Fi must be a condition if the FCC approves the Verizon Wireless/cable deals and Verizon’s spectrum swap with T-Mobile, the Rural Telecommunications Group told the FCC. “The launching of CableWiFi’s 50,000 hotspot network is akin to the…
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launching of a large mobile wireless competitor in the various markets it serves,” RTG said (http://xrl.us/bnhjxf). “It would be antithetical to the public interest if SpectrumCo and Cox were allowed to sell all of their AWS licenses to Verizon Wireless (and thus preempt the emergence of a facilities-based mobile wireless competitor) only to turn around and offer WiFi offload roaming only to select carriers such as Verizon Wireless and not offer those same data connectivity roaming services to other providers at commercially reasonable rates, terms and conditions.” In addition, RTG said, “Any roaming condition must be buttressed by the Commission with additional requirements that do not allow the cable companies to deny access to WiFi offload roaming by making device authentication, network testing or billing file transfers overly complex so as to frustrate the end-user’s access to seamless roaming or otherwise delay the launch of these data roaming services.&rdquo