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Hidden Cell -- Agent Number 9047103050, 02:49:42 03/25/06 Sat
FCC lifts some Verizon broadband regulations
Rivals blast 'unbelievable' action; FCC says it will speed deployment
The Associated Press
Updated: 7:12 p.m. ET March 20, 2006
WASHINGTON - The government is easing regulations on what Verizon Communications Inc. can charge business customers for its high-speed broadband data services.
The Federal Communications Commission is allowing Verizon to exempt its broadband data services provided to large enterprise and wholesale customers, including wireless and long-distance phone companies, from rules regarding tariff filings and pricing requirements.
Verizon, in a 2004 petition to the commission, argued that there is fierce competition in the broadband market. It noted that other competitors — cable and long distance — all faced lower regulatory hurdles and that Verizon should no longer be saddled with the rules.
The FCC had until midnight Sunday to deny Verizon’s petition. Because the commission took no action by the deadline, what the company sought automatically went into effect Monday.
A trade group representing Verizon rivals said the commission’s inaction relieves Verizon of obligations to protect customer privacy, provide access for the disabled and contribute to a fund that helps subsidize household service for rural and low-income people.
“The scope of this almost whimsical action by the commission is unbelievable,” said Earl Comstock, president and chief executive of CompTel, who faulted FCC Chairman Kevin Martin for allowing the petition to take effect.
In a statement, Martin said the deregulation will promote broadband deployment across the country.
“This relief will enable Verizon to have the flexibility to further deploy its broadband services and fiber facilities without overly burdensome regulations,” he said.
Martin also noted that Verizon was not seeking in its petition to exempt itself from the Universal Service Fund helping rural and poor communities.
Democratic FCC Commissioner Michael Copps objected to the way the Verizon petition was handled at the agency, saying it erases decades of communications policy. “In effect, we provide industry the pen and give it the go-ahead to rewrite the law,” he said.
Analysts expect Verizon competitors to challenge the commission.
“Investors should take note that while this outcome may appear to hand Verizon a victory, there is a high probability of legal risk associated with the FCC’s decision to let the petition go into effect,” Jessica Zufolo, an analyst with Medley Global Advisors, said in a note Monday to clients.
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Fans put satellite radio on cellphones, draws fire By Kenneth Li
Fri Mar 24, 3:45 PM ET
Fans of U.S. satellite radio have been waiting eagerly for nearly a year to get XM or Sirius on to their cell phones.
But as the two satellite radio providers carefully ponder their mobile strategies and chew over business plans, a small group of technically savvy devotees are taking matters into their own hands.
Grassroots software and Web developers have found ways to tap into XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.'s Web sites to stream music channels on to Windows-powered smartphones and other devices.
Most have given their work away for free to other fans since late last year -- running into conflict with the wireless business strategies of the satellite radio providers.
"I'm not always near a PC, but I already have a cell phone," said David Bressler, who wrote a piece of software to listen to Sirius in his office, which blocks satellite radio signals.
"I like Sirius, I promote Sirius to everyone I talk to," he said in a phone interview, adding it took him about an hour last December to write the software, SiriusWM5.
XM, the top U.S. satellite radio service provider with about 6 million subscribers, and Sirius, which serves about 4 million, have both said that going mobile was an important part of their business expansion.
But so far, only a few of Sirius' channels are available on one wireless provider's network, Sprint Nextel.
Meanwhile, XM has threatened to take legal action. In early February, a law firm representing the company sent a cease and desist letter to a developer, citing infringement of its trademark.
A spokesman for Sirius said its lawyers are also pursuing the issue. "Our lawyers are diligently pursuing this," a Sirius spokesman said.
"We've indicated time and again, we expect our service and technology to be widely available in portable products and we continue to explore opportunities to do that," said XM spokesman Chance Patterson. "These incidents don't have any impact on those plans.
GRASSROOTS COMPETITION
To be sure, the addressable market is tiny. Users have to own relatively new Microsoft Windows Mobile-powered smartphones or PocketPC handheld devices and troll online message boards to locate the software or Web site links.
As a service to paying subscribers, XM and Sirius offer only a limited selection of their music channels on the Web. Sirius' hugely popular shows by ribald radio host Howard Stern, for example, are not available on its Web site.
Nonetheless, marginal competitive distractions, have a way of haunting technology companies. Consider how the dorm room and garage passions of Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates and Apple Computer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, dropouts from Harvard University and Reed College, respectively, took on IBM and now own the personal computer market.
"We don't want to get into any trouble," said Wayne, the developer of PocketXM Radio, who declined to give his full name for fear of retribution. He said his software, subsequently renamed Pocket Satellite Radio, is no longer for sale.
It had been sold at www.eBooksoftwarehouse.com, which is registered to Wayne Jiang, based in Texas.
The potential legal quagmire such workarounds represent has not shaken the resolve of new developers, some of whom would rather continue to quietly tinker without disturbance.
"I have not been contacted. I do not wish to be contacted by XM," said Younes Oughla, who created the Web site MiniXM.com over four weekends in his home office in West New York, New Jersey.
"I make sure that people know I'm not affiliated with XM to avoid confusion," Oughla said, pointing to a disclaimer on his site, www.minixm.com.
Another developer, whose programing allows Windows Mobile phone users to easily link to XM radio Web casts, said he wrote the software to cut down on clutter. His programing was widely distributed off his blog.
"I prefer to carry one device," Nick Krewson, one of the earliest developers of software that connected to XM, said.
On Internet message boards, such as HowardForums.com, where tech and phone geeks converge, Bressler has turned down offers to accept fees for his software.
"If Sirius wants the application and wants to develop it further, it's all theirs," he said.
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