I had two shots of espresso and then tackled a few parts of the U.S. Court of Appeals decision favoring Comcast. I am an informed technologist with no legal training. It does appear to this blogger that the FCC’s case was—sigh—very weak.
In navigating this legalistic obstacle course and trying to unravel the thinking of a a generation of technology challenged attorneys, you are forced to make the unlikeliest of associations. First, telecommunications means voice and cable TV, but not data. Data is called information services, and voice can be an information service when it is VoIP. (Hmm, not sure I want to know how the FCC viewed the phone systems’ digital TDM protocols.)
And then voice has something like cooties, and can contaminate the data part, turning it into telecommunications. Follow?Continue reading