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Beeper CEO Discusses Apple Blocking Concerns With Simington Aide

Beeper CEO Eric Migicovsky met with an aide to FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington on the subject of the FCC investigating Apple for blocking messaging app Beeper Mini (see 2402280076). The meeting “was to inform the Commission about how Beeper Mini…

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works, and to discuss the legal implications of Apple’s blocking it that are relevant to the Commission’s authority,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 08-7. Beeper cited “interconnection requirements under Title II of the Communications Act and possible implications with regard to the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.” Public Knowledge and Reset.tech representatives also attended the meeting.