Verizon has filed suit against the Federal Communications Commission in hopes of putting a stop to the new 'data roaming' rules issued last month. In its appeal, the telecom giant argued that the FCC overstepped its boundaries when approving the regulations, adding that it doesn't believe the rules are necessary in the first place since large carriers already enter into data roaming agreements with smaller partners.
The FCC approved the data roaming guidelines in April in a 3-2 vote, ultimately requiring commercial mobile broadband providers to provide data roaming to other carriers 'on commercially reasonable terms and conditions.' The carriers offering roaming services still have the freedom to negotiate agreements with smaller carriers individually, but they can't turn someone away just because they're the Little Guy.
Read the comments on this post
"kw: mesh, networking, freedom, p2p, internet, bitcoin, asterisk, google, google voice, android, root, free, wireless, data, linux, voip, voice
No comments:
Post a Comment