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Wisconsin

Cybercrime

Wisconsin Statutes 943.70 (3) Offenses against computers, computer equipment or supplies.

(a) Whoever willfully, knowingly and without authorization does any of the following may be penalized as provided in par. (b) :

2. Destroys, uses, takes or damages a computer, computer system, computer network or equipment or supplies used or intended to be used in a computer, computer system or computer network.

Municipal Broadband

• BadgerNet Wisconsin " The objective of this project was to provide dynamic, scalable bandwidth on a vendor-managed network to approximately 2,000 data and/or video sites including state agencies, schools, universities/colleges, and other authorized users (e.g;municipalities) "
• Jackson | Wifi | 5500 pop | 2.5 sq mi |
• Madison |
  • City of Madison Launches Wi-Fi Service, GT News 4/18/2006
• Manitowoc Public Utilities
• Milwaukee| City Wide Wifi | City of Milwaukee |
  • Earthlink Service Provider Wifi : - Mr. Donald Berryman Earthlink, State and Local Issues and Municipal Networks Senate Commerce Committee February 14 2006
  • Panel OKs deal for Wi-Fi network, JS Online Jan 14, 2006
• Oconoto Falls Water and Light Commission
• Shawano Municipal Utilities
• Waupaca | Wifi | 5700 pop | 6 sq mi |
• Law
  • WI Act 278

  66.0422 Cable television, telecommunications, and broadband facilities.
    (1) In this section:
       (a) “Cable service” has the meaning given in s. 66.0419 (2) (c).
       (b) “Local government” means a city, village, or town.
       (c) “Telecommunications service” has the meaning given in s. 196.01 (9m).
    (2) Except as provided in subs. (3), (3d), (3m), and (3n), no local government may enact an ordinance or adopt a resolution authorizing the local government to construct, own, or operate any facility for providing cable service, telecommunications service, or broadband service, directly or indirectly, to the public, unless all of the following are satisfied:

        (a) The local government holds a public hearing on the proposed ordinance or resolution.
        (b) Notice of the public hearing is given by publication of a class 3 notice under ch. 985 in the area affected by the proposed ordinance or resolution.
        (c) No less than 30 days before the public hearing, the local government prepares and makes available for public inspection a report estimating the total costs of, and revenues derived from, constructing, owning, or operating the facility and including a cost−benefit analysis of the facility for a period of at least 3 years. The costs that are subject to this paragraph include personnel costs and costs of acquiring, installing, maintaining, repairing, or operating any plant or equipment, and include an appropriate allocated portion of costs of personnel, plant, or equipment that are used to provide jointly both telecommunications services and other services.
    (3) Subsection (2) does not apply to a local government if all of the following conditions apply:
        (a) On November 1, 2003, the public service commission has determined that the local government is an alternative telecommunications utility under s. 196.203.
        (b) A majority of the governing board of the local government votes to submit the question of supporting the operation of the facility for providing cable service,
  telecommunications service, or Internet access service, directly or indirectly to the public, by the local government to the electors in an advisory referendum and a
  majority of the voters in the local government voting at the advisory referendum vote to support operation of such a facility by the local government.
  (3d) (a) Subsection (2) does not apply to a facility for providing broadband service to an area within the boundaries of a local government if any of the following are satisfied:
  1. The local government asks, in writing, each person that provides broadband service within the boundaries of the local government whether the person currently provides broadband service to the area or intends to provide broadband service within 9 months to the area and within 60 days after receiving the written request no person responds in writing to the local government that the person currently provides broadband service to the area or intends to provide broadband service to the area within 9 months.
  2. The local government determines that a person who responded to a written request under subd. 1. that the person currently provides broadband service to the area did not actually provide broadband service to the area and no other person makes the response to the local government described in subd. 1.
  3. The local government determines that a person who responded to a written request under subd. 1. that the person intended to provide broadband service to the area within 9 months did not actually provide broadband service to the area within 9 months and no other person makes the response to the local government described in subd. 1.
  (3m) Subsection (2) does not apply to a facility for providing broadband service if all of the following apply:
  (a) The municipality offers use of the facility on a nondiscriminatory basis to persons who provide broadband service to end users of the service.
  (b) The municipality itself does not use the facility to provide broadband service to end users.
  (c) The municipality determines that, at the time that the municipality authorizes the construction, ownership, or operation of the facility, whichever occurs first, the
  facility does not compete with more than one provider of broadband service.
  (3n) Subsection (2) does not apply to a local government that, on March 1, 2004, was providing cable service to the public.
  (4) Notwithstanding sub. (2), a local government may enact an ordinance or adopt a resolution authorizing the local government to prepare a report specified in sub.
  (2) (c).
  (5) If a local government enacts an ordinance or adopts a resolution that complies with the requirements of sub. (2), the local government must determine the cost
  incurred in preparing the report specified in sub. (2) (c). As soon as practicable after the local government generates revenue from a facility specified in sub. (2) (intro.),
  the local government shall use the revenues to reimburse the treasury of the local government for the cost determined under this subsection.

  • Free Press

VoIP

• 8x8 Announces Receipt of Notification From Public Service Commission of Wisconsin Sept 12, 2003 Press Release ("8x8, Inc. (Nasdaq: EGHT) today announced that on September 11, 2003, it received a letter from the Public Service Commission (the "Commission") of Wisconsin notifying the Company that the Commission believes that 8x8, via its Packet8 voice and video communications service, is offering intrastate telecommunications services in the state of Wisconsin without certification of the Commission. ")
• Letters were also reportedly sent to Vonage and Delta3 Balancing Responsibilities and Rights: A Regulatory Model for Facilities-Based VoIP Competition An NCTA Policy Paper February 2004
• Wisconsin PUC (no info readily apparent)
• VoIP in the Crosshairs Government Technology March 2004 (" "Currently staff is in a fact-finding stage on the issue of VoIP," said Linda Barth, the Wisconsin PSC's public information officer, in mid-December. "It is staff's intent to continue to collect information on VoIP and to monitor FCC activities. We are not at a point in our process to make further comments about regulation of VoIP." ")
• Wisconsin enters VoIP fray CNET Sept 2003
• Commentary: Wisconsin's tune on VoIP CNET Sept 2003
• States Push To Regulate Voice As Voice Telephony Sept 2003
• Trials and Market Deployments
• AT&T Broadband VoIP field trial Stevens Point Putting VoIP to the Crash Test, CED May 2002
• Charter: Wausau Launch 2002. Charter market deployment Wausau Cablecos Set Sights on VoIP, Xchange February 1, 2004; Balancing Responsibilities and Rights: A Regulatory Model for Facilities-Based VoIP Competition An NCTA Policy Paper February 2004; Merrill Lynch, Everything Over IP (March 12, 2004) EMTA with battery back up. Alarm when battery weak. Direct hand off to PSTN. Pass 1 million homes end 2004 with VoIP. No Internet transport.

 

• Wisconsin Data Shows AT&T's 'Franchise Reform' Was A Joke - Now consumers get higher prices AND no consumer protection laws..., dslreports 12/4/2009

News

• Wisconsin Kills WiscNet, Because The Only Good Infrastructure Is AT&T Infrastructure, Techdirt 6/17/2011
• Filtering at the Wisconsin State Capitol, Berkman Center 2/25/2011