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New York

Municipal Broadband

• Connected & on the Go; Broadband Goes Wireless, Report of the FCC Wireless Broadband Access Task Force, p. 33 Feb. 2005: "New York City has taken steps to promote wireless broadband by facilitating access to municipally owned facilities. In February of 2004, the city determined that access to city-owned infrastructure could provide an important incentive to spur deployment in certain areas and proposed granting access, at reasonable rates, to over six thousand of the city-owned light poles.97 In this way, the city hoped that service providers could fill in gaps in existing coverage and build out beyond current service areas. To provide incentives for coverage in underserved areas, the city devised a pricing scheme that charged only nominal fees for poles in those districts identified as having the lowest service penetration rates. The city placed no restrictions on what services could be provided – opening these facilities not only to broadband access but also to mobile phone providers.
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• Wi-Fi Cloud Of Hot Zones Planned For NYC, Networking Pipeline 7/10/2006
• Central Park To Go Wireless, Internet Week 5/19/2006
• Deadline Set for Wireless Internet in Parks, NYT 5/16/2006
• NYC Briefing Paper to Establish Advisory Council, Dec 2005
• New York City looks into affordable broadband for all, Muni 4/22/2005

Network Neutrality

• Queens Community Board 3: Network Neutrality ("Therefore, we urge our city, state, and federal representatives to seek network service equality for our residents, businesses, and institutions.")

VoIP

• Complaint of Frontier Company of Rochester Against DataNet Corporation Concerning Alleged Refusal to Pay Intrastate Carrier Access Charges Case 01-C-1119, Order Requiring Payment of Intrastate Access Charges (May 31, 2002) (PSC concluded that VoIP Long Distance traffic of DataNet is virtually identical to regulated Long Distance telephony service and meets the definition of telecom service in the Telecom Act, therefore intrastate access charges apply).
• See COMPLAINT OF XO NEW YORK, INC. AND THE COMPETITIVE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION OPPOSING TARIFF FILING OF FRONTIER TELEPHONE OF ROCHESTER, INC. July 18, 2003
• Notice Requesting Comments PSC August 13, 2003
• Order Approving Tariff and Dismissing Complaint March 26, 2004
• New York PSC Declares VoIP to be POTS, Affirms Access Charges  Cole Raywid and Braverman
• VoIP Regulation - A "New Frontier" By Andrew O. Isar PDF

Wifi Security

Law: NY State Penal Code § 156.00(8) (defining "without authorization" such that a user must have actual notice that access was without permission for it to be "without authorization." The law applies only where the network“is equipped or programmed with any device or coding system, a function of which is to prevent the unauthorized use of said computer or computer system.” § 156.05)

Westchester County directed its businesses to secure their networks or they would be fined. A wireless felony , WOOD TV 8 (June 18, 2007)

News

• Tom Maguire, “Setting the Record Straight on Fire Island and Voice Link,” Verizon Public Policy Blog, July 11, 2013.
• Tom Maguire, “A Fiber Optic Network For Fire Island,” Verizon Public Policy Blog, September 11, 2013.