{"id":170545,"date":"2010-01-12T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/12\/magicjack-femtocell-sure-to-face-legal-battle-royale\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T19:14:00","slug":"magicjack-femtocell-sure-to-face-legal-battle-royale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/170545","title":{"rendered":"MagicJack femtocell sure to face legal battle royale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/186732\/magicjack_home_cellular_service_could_spark_legal_battle.html?tk=rss_news\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadgetmobile.com\/media\/2009\/04\/magicjack-antenna.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Despite MagicJack&#8217;s official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/12\/magicjack-femotcell-sure-to-face-legal-battle-royale\/\">announcement<\/a> last week of an in-home femtocell for connecting carriers&#8217; phones directly to its service, tons of questions remain &#8212; including most of the questions we had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/04\/22\/magicjack-working-with-magicfcc-and-magiccarriers-on-magicfemtoc\/\">when we first heard of the idea<\/a>. Let&#8217;s recap those questions and where we stand with each of them, shall we?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Are these guys licensing spectrum from the gub&#8217;mint, sublicensing it from carriers, or just going rogue?<\/strong> Going rogue. Historically, this usually ends in an FCC-mandated shutdown &#8212; and since both carriers and the CTIA will undoubtedly be throwing a fit that some company is stealing pricey spectrum for its own purposes, we&#8217;re sure the pressure on the government to act will be quite high.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Are any carriers in on this, and if so, why?<\/strong> Nope, none. The company says that &#8220;if they were smart they would take [it] on as a partner, because all [it] could do is enhance the value they create for their customer,&#8221; but presently, MagicJack&#8217;s all alone.<\/li>\n<li><strong>If carriers aren&#8217;t involved, why would they establish roaming deals that would allow carrier-branded phones and SIMs to roam on MagicJack&#8217;s rogue airwaves?<\/strong> As far as we can tell, they aren&#8217;t on any roaming deals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>If they&#8217;re not working on roaming deals, the femtocells will need to spoof a carrier ID. Furthermore, TDMA femtocells are virtually impossible to design and install for technical reasons, which means these would have to be 3G. So MagicJack&#8217;s going to offer a UMTS femtocell?<\/strong> It appears to be a plain-Jane GSM femtocell, which is technically interesting considering what we&#8217;ve heard in the past about effectively making a TDMA unit that plays nice with the surrounding network. Considering everything else we know, though, it probably doesn&#8217;t play nice &#8212; and without a roaming deal in place, they&#8217;ll need to spoof. That&#8217;s going to rile up both carriers and the GSMA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do you get to keep your phone number when you roam on the MagicFemtocell, and if so, how?<\/strong> For incoming calls, probably not, unless you forward to the MagicJack number.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Needless to say, both the carriers and the feds are going to have a lot to say about this product &#8212; particularly considering that it hasn&#8217;t even received FCC approval yet. If it keeps marching toward retail, we could be gearing up for one of the most entertaining legal battles of the year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/12\/magicjack-femtocell-sure-to-face-legal-battle-royale\/\">MagicJack femtocell sure to face legal battle royale<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\">Engadget<\/a> on Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:23:00 EST.  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Let&#8217;s recap those questions and where we stand with each of them, shall we? Are these guys licensing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}