Last time I checked, Congress passed laws and the President signed them. Not the FCC.
Last time I checked, regulatory bodies did this crazy thing called regulate.
Regulation: a governmental or ministerial order having the force of law
Last time I checked, Congress passed laws and the President signed them. Not the FCC.
Last time I checked, regulatory bodies did this crazy thing called regulate.
Regulation: a governmental or ministerial order having the force of law
You guys are really taking this too far, if you honestly think verizon will come at you with the "ban" hammer, you are crazy.
It's like with downloading music/movies, some people will be caught and hit hard to make an example. But believe me, you CANNOT stop the majority. It's all a scare tactic and if verizon keeps this crap up, they will lose millions and millions in revenue from dropped/kicked customers. Lose 30 dollar Hot Spot charge or lose 100's of dollars in cell phone bills. Do the math, its simple.
I think this confuses two different issues. Verizon is in the right enforce any legal aspect of a contract you have signed with them. But that is a totally different topic than whether they have the right to block access to certain apps or block access to parts of the radio spectrum that they themselves are contractually obligated to allow.
Or the FCC isn't going to enforce it.The FCC was appointed the duty to sell/auction off the 700mhz spectrum which was recently freed up, who's to say that the sale didn't come with a legally binding contract to which all buyers including verizon are legally expected to uphold? Sure it might not be a LAW that they have to do it, but it could very well be in a contract that they have to do that or will in some way be reprimanded/punished or have their rights to the spectrum revoked without and form of compensation, or something like that.
Also the wikipedia link at the top of this thread says
"After the open access rules were implemented, Verizon Wireless filed suit against the FCC on September 13, 2007, seeking to have the rules dismissed on the grounds that the open access requirement "violates the U.S. Constitution, violates the Administrative Procedures Act ? and is arbitrary, capricious, unsupported by the substantial evidence and otherwise contrary to law."[7] On October 23, Verizon chose to drop the lawsuit after losing its appeal for a speedy resolution on October 3. However, the CTIA stepped in to challenge the same regulations in a lawsuit filed the same day.[8] On November 13, 2008, the CTIA dropped its lawsuit against the FCC.[9]"
Clearly it was decided that the regulations that they agreed to when buying the spectrum are not able to be taken down, if they were then verizon wouldn't have dropped the lawsuit over them.
They're already doing it. Once the tiered pricing takes effect, you're going to start hearing stories of people whose service was terminated by Verizon for illegal tethering.
most obvious loophole in that text that I can see:
subject to reasonable network management.
Verizon will argue all day long that for reasonable network management that they need to stop unlimited tethering and they can go to court and tie this up for YEARS. Then even if they lose, we might get 2 bucks credited to our bill in 15 years.....oh and the lawyers will get all the real money.
Second, if some lawyers really want to push this, then all Verizon has to do is drop unlimited data plans. Then you can tether all you want... UNTIL you hit your data limit for the month, which won't take long. Wouldn't surprise me if this is one of the reasons they will be doing away with unlimited plans.
Fact of the matter is if some douchbags would stop downloading 100 GB every month playing call of duty and using it as their primary home internet the rest of us would be left alone, but there are always those that abuse it and ruin it for the rest of us.
most obvious loophole in that text that I can see:
subject to reasonable network management.
Verizon will argue all day long that for reasonable network management that they need to stop unlimited tethering and they can go to court and tie this up for YEARS. Then even if they lose, we might get 2 bucks credited to our bill in 15 years.....oh and the lawyers will get all the real money.
Second, if some lawyers really want to push this, then all Verizon has to do is drop unlimited data plans. Then you can tether all you want... UNTIL you hit your data limit for the month, which won't take long. Wouldn't surprise me if this is one of the reasons they will be doing away with unlimited plans.
Fact of the matter is if some douchbags would stop downloading 100 GB every month playing call of duty and using it as their primary home internet the rest of us would be left alone, but there are always those that abuse it and ruin it for the rest of us.
Ya I got a quarter that says vzw is still the boss and will do whatever they want.