Jerry Brito

FCC seen backing airline’s broadband at Logan

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According to Reuters: “Boston airport authorities cannot stop Continental Airlines from offering wireless Internet service in its frequent flier lounge under a proposed Federal Communications Commission ruling … The Massachusetts Port Authority, or Massport, instructed airlines in 2005 to unplug their wireless and wireline high-speed Internet access in frequent flier lounges at Boston-Logan International Airport and use the fee-based system the airport was launching.”

According to an FCC staff notice from 2004, Commission rules “prohibit homeowner associations, landlords, state and local governments, or any other third parties from placing restrictions that impair a customer antenna user’s ability to install, maintain, or use [unlicensed band] customer antennas transmitting and/or receiving commercial nonbroadcast communications signals when the antenna is located ‘on property within the exclusive use or control’ of the user.”

On the one hand this also means that your apartment building can’t require you to use their (monopoly) pay wi-fi service. But on the other hand, why not? Don’t property and contracts count for much anymore?

Sep 21, 2006 | Comments