[mythtv-users] Cable Programmers versus the FCC

[Brian Wood]

R. G. Newbury wrote:

> 
> And yup, the last paragraph is unfortunately where we are. I do hope 
> Brian, that you at least told the cableco employee that if that was what 
> his boss had told him, his boss had told him something wrong...And 
> referred him to the Consolidated Federal Regs. ...At least it cannot 
> hurt if some employee makes a supervisor actually look at the law or ask 
> about the law. (Because then there might be a 'smoking gun' e-mail 
> floating around which could, one day, be useful.)

I sent him out of my house with a printed copy of the pertinent
regulation, he was shaking his head as he walked to his truck.

Interestingly, over 30 years ago I was the Chief Engineer of this same
cable system (though that was 4 or 5 owners and a LOT of changes ago). I
recall one day when an installer called me on the radio and told me I
had better get out to a job he was working on.

When I got there the customer had a Tektronix 7L12 Spectrum Analyzer
hooked up to our system, and I noticed a set of the printed FCC
regulations on his bookshelf.

I did the best thing I could think of to do under the circumstances: I
hired him (and thanked the installer) :-)

beww


> 
> Because I can foresee a doozy class action some day against a Comcast or 
> whoever, based upon that sort of false representation about what the law 
> "is".

I'm sure they would say field technician is not authorized to speak for
the company, but I would claim he was their legal representative.

No matter what happens, somehow some way, we will wind up paying more
and getting less.

beww