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Alabama

Cybercrime

Alabama Code Title 13A Article 5 Alabama Computer Crime Act. Section 13A-8-100 Short title.

Section 13A-8-102

Offenses against intellectual property.

(a) Whoever willfully, knowingly, and without authorization or without reasonable grounds to believe that he or she has such authorization, attempts or achieves access, communication, examination, or modification of data, computer programs, or supporting documentation residing or existing internal or external to a computer, computer system, or computer network commits an offense against intellectual property.

(b) Whoever willfully, knowingly, and without authorization or without reasonable grounds to believe that he or she has such authorization, destroys data, computer programs, or supporting documentation residing or existing internal or external to a computer, computer system, or computer network commits an offense against intellectual property.

(c) Whoever willfully, knowingly, and without authorization or without reasonable grounds to believe that he or she has such authorization, discloses, uses, or takes data, computer programs, or supporting documentation residing or existing internal or external to a computer, computer system, or computer network commits an offense against intellectual property.

Municipal Broadband

• Florence utilities, Florence (Internet access)
• Scottsboro Electric Power Board | Cable | $24 / month 512 kbps |
• Cable TV, Internet, Data 1999 NA $1,950/sub NA In 1999, competitor cut rates, and the city went to court to prevent cut, alleging Charter's rates were "predatory". - Municipal Broadband: Digging Beneath the Surface, Balhoff & Rowe, LCC, p. 34 (Sept. 2005)
• Sylaugua (f)

VoIP

In other instances, the ILECs assert that interexchange carriers offer access to IP Telephony Service for the use of a standard telephone where the customer dials a seven digit local number, reaches the provider for a second dial tone and places the local or long distance call.
-- IN RE: Petition for a Declaratory Order regarding classification of IP Telephony Service. Order Establishing Declaratory Proceeding, DOCKET 29016, p. 2 (Alabama PSC August 2003) PDF

• Alabama PSC Docket 29016: 8/29/03 Order Establishing Proceeding re: IP Telephony PDF

• Docket page with comments

• "In order to aid the investigative process, the Commission herein seeks comments from interested parties concerning the various forms of IP Telephony Service and the jurisdictional issues related thereto. The Commission further seeks comments specifically addressing the matters raised in the ILEC Petition attached hereto as Appendix A. Initial comments will be considered by the Commission if received on, or before, October 31, 2003. Reply comments will be considered by the Commission if filed on, or before, December 2, 2003."

• Reportedly the PSC on Aug 12, 2003 initiated a declaratory ruling proceeding concering VoIP in response to 31 ILECs (But note Bell South) demands. Time to Rewrite the Rules of Telecom, BWO Sept 8, 2003 ("On Aug. 12, Alabama ordered a "declaratory ruling" on whether VOIP will be subject to so-called access and interconnection charges that apply to traditional phone calls.")

 

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