Here's the facts I am aware of, with a massive caveat that this was a few years ago and my memory is pretty fuzzy on it: - When the building was under construc

Here's the facts I am aware of, with a massive caveat that this was a few years ago and my memory is pretty fuzzy on it: - When the building was under construction, Comcast paid some amount of money for coax to be installed. Maybe it was extra coax, maybe it was a headend for the building, I don't know specifics, other than Comcast paid the building owners - In exchange, between 2008 and 2013, Comcast had a exclusive line agreement, only allowing AT&T access - In 2014, the Comcast contract expired and AT&T created a exclusive lines agreement with building management, only allowing Comcast to exist - Based on this [0] statement from the FCC, these exclusivity agreements are illegal in apartments - At the time that I had looked into this, around 2012, I was attempting to get WebPass (pre-Google acquisition) to come into the building. Turns out that my building was a top sales prospect for them, so I worked with their chief sales officer and chief legal officer to craft letters to my management about the exclusive agreement, although never followed through when WebPass had pushback from the company at other properties than my own. - Wave G was able to install its own hardware (routers on every floor) and ethernet from the antenna on the 23rd floor all the way down to ground level (in preexisting conduit that was installed at construction time) in April 2019. Wave G was only able to do this after executing a side agreement with my building management to gain access. They were willing to do whatever it took to get into the building because we were blocking (physically with height) line of sight to their tower in downtown Oakland and needed to use our roof as a hop. I assume they paid a good chunk of cash to get in. Just a note, the building owner is Essex Property Trust, a publicly traded REIT with quite a few buildings on the west coast. One other thing, this exclusivity thing is a real issue in Oakland specifically which is why EFF created OICC [1] which I provided my feedback to. [0]: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-280908A1.pdf https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-280908A1.pdf [1]: https://oaklandinternetchoice.com https://oaklandinternetchoice.com