{"id":197141,"date":"2008-02-27T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/27\/rep-markey-proposes-universal-access-bill-for-wireless\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T23:52:00","slug":"rep-markey-proposes-universal-access-bill-for-wireless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/27\/rep-markey-proposes-universal-access-bill-for-wireless\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Markey Proposes Universal Access Bill for Wireless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Markey has consistently been at the forefront of such things, and how he has proposed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-10784_3-9879554-7.html?part=dht&amp;tag=nl.e433\">Wireless Consumer Protection and Community Broadband Empowerment Act<\/a>, which calls for the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adequate and plain English disclosures about contracts.<\/li>\n<li>Provision of more detailed coverage maps.<\/li>\n<li>Require the sale of plans <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">without<\/span> early termination fees.<\/li>\n<li>Require phone carriers to sell &#8220;subsidy free&#8221; phones.<\/li>\n<li>Give municipalities the explicit right to offer broadband services, preempting state laws forbidding this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seems like a good bill to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Markey has consistently been at the forefront of such things, and how he has proposed the Wireless Consumer Protection and Community Broadband Empowerment Act, which calls for the following: Adequate and plain English disclosures about contracts. Provision of more detailed coverage maps. Require the sale of plans without early termination fees. Require phone carriers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,998,1020,985,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-congress","category-legislation","category-regulation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197141"}],"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=197141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}