Cybertelecom Federal Internet Law & Policy An Educational Project

Maryland

Cybercrime

Maryland Code § 7-302. Unauthorized access to computers and related material. (c) Prohibited.-

(1) A person may not intentionally, willfully, and without authorization access, attempt to access, cause to be accessed, or exceed the person's authorized access to all or part of a computer network, computer control language, computer, computer software, computer system, computer services, or computer database.

(2) A person may not commit an act prohibited by paragraph (1) of this subsection with the intent to:

(i) cause the malfunction or interrupt the operation of all or any part of a computer, computer network, computer control language, computer software, computer system, computer services, or computer data; or

(ii) alter, damage, or destroy all or any part of data or a computer program stored, maintained, or produced by a computer, computer network, computer software, computer system, computer services, or computer database.

(3) A person may not intentionally, willfully, and without authorization:

(i) possess, identify, or attempt to identify a valid access code; or

(ii) publicize or distribute a valid access code to an unauthorized person.

Municipal Broadband

• Public Internet (offered to the public)
  • Allegany County
    • AllCoNet2 would extend service to last mile residential | microwave | 103 Sq Mi.
      • Total Cost: $2.9 m. Population as of 2000: 75,000. That works out to about $39 per resident. - - Allconet Project Proposal, p. 11PDF
      • a wireless SONET* network with 155 Mbps capacity around the strategic areas of Allegany County. This ring would entail, approximately 10 OC3 tower hops and several DS3 spurs from those tower locations. Each of those strategic tower locations into private and public Micro-PoPs for end user connectivity. - Allconet Project Proposal, p. 6 PDF
      • Unlicensed Wireless Broadband Profiles Community, Municipal & Commercial Success Stories , p. 15 New America 2004
      • Investment $4.9 m - Municipal Broadband: Digging Beneath the Surface, Balhoff & Rowe, LCC, p. 29 (Sept. 2005)
  • Ocean City (tourist area) unconfirmed BIG Wireless
  • Rockville
    • Rockville, Maryland, to deploy free wireless downtown network, MuniWireless 7/5/2007
• Government Intranets (not offered to the public)
  • Maryland Public Libraries Sailor Project
  • Allegany County
    • AllCoNet Schools, Govts, Communities, non profits (not private sector / residential). | Unlicensed Wireless. Vendors: Alvarion, Marconi, DMC Stratex Networks. Non profit government partnership. Total Cost: $2,9 m.
      • "We currently support: 85 buildings, 4,000 workstations and 10,000 users." - Allconet Project Proposal, p. 3 PDF
      • deliver high-speed data and bandwidth from 1.54Mbps (T-1) to more than 960 Mbps. - Allconet Project Proposal, p. 4 PDF
      • Uses at least some open source software
  • Caroline County BIG Wireless | Govt Office of Technologies | Baltimore Sun Coverage 2004 | Aquired fiber off of eBay.
  • Talbot County BIG Wireless | Schools and Govt | Talbot County
  • Washington County BIG Wireless | Govt Intranet Dept of Water Quality

VoIP

• Trials and Deployments
• Armstrong Cable Services field trial Putting VoIP to the Crash Test, CED May 2002; Armstrong Cable in partnership with Vonage offering Zoom Phone Service. Balancing Responsibilities and Rights: A Regulatory Model for Facilities-Based VoIP Competition An NCTA Policy Paper February 2004; Vonage Cables in Armstrong VoIP Deal,  Internet News (June 10, 2003)

Cable Open Access

• Battle Lines Drawn Over Cable Md., Va. Legislatures Confront Issue of Internet Access Washington Post 2/7