{"id":196819,"date":"2008-03-21T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/21\/fcc-forbids-exclusive-telco-deals-with-apartments\/"},"modified":"2008-03-21T05:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T10:03:00","slug":"fcc-forbids-exclusive-telco-deals-with-apartments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/21\/fcc-forbids-exclusive-telco-deals-with-apartments\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Forbids Exclusive Telco Deals With Apartments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalley.com\/latestheadlines\/ci_8628620?nclick_check=1\">correct decision<\/a>, which is why I&#8217;m surprised that the FCC made it:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Regulators on Wednesday unanimously approved a rule banning exclusive telephone service agreements in apartment buildings, giving tenants their pick of providers.<\/p>\n<p>The five-member Federal Communications Commission said in a release that exclusive contracts between carriers and apartment-building owners &#8220;hurt consumers and harm competition, with little evidence of countervailing benefits.&#8221; It noted that the deals have also blocked residents from getting bundled voice, video and high-speed Internet service packages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the correct decision, which is why I&#8217;m surprised that the FCC made it: Regulators on Wednesday unanimously approved a rule banning exclusive telephone service agreements in apartment buildings, giving tenants their pick of providers. The five-member Federal Communications Commission said in a release that exclusive contracts between carriers and apartment-building owners &#8220;hurt consumers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,985,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-regulation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}