dataBahn Sues Unasat for Breach of Contract and Tortious Interference.DALLAS -- dataBahn Inc., a pioneering leader in next-generation commercial satellite broadband solutions has filed suit against Unasat Communications citing Breach of Contract, Breach of Warranty Ask a Lawyer Question Country: United States of America State: Michigan Probably contract law; I live in Michigan; I ordered a used transition from a company in TX. This part is used; I know it's a crap shoot as to how good it is. under the Uniform Commercial Code, Tortious Interference with Prospective Advantage, Breach of Good Faith and Fair Dealing and other declaratory relief declaratory relief n. a judge's determination (called a "declaratory judgment") of the parties' rights under a contract or a statute often requested (prayed) for information in a lawsuit over a contract. . dataBahn executed a wholesale bandwidth agreement with Unasat Communications in early 2005 to provide space segment and network services supporting the introduction of their DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) A cable modem standard from the CableLabs research consortium (www.cablelabs.com), which provides equipment certification for interoperability. based Surfbeam modem to the commercial satellite market. The suit, filed May 24th, 2006 in Federal Court, cites eleven aggregated complaints against Unasat Communications LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , including failure to deliver adequate bandwidth services as contracted, interfering with and disrupting customers' broadband services to confuse and frustrate dataBahn customers and enticement of dataBahn dealers to align directly with Unasat in order to compete against dataBahn. Damages, estimated in the millions of dollars, continue to accrue. "This dwarfs the harassment and strong-arming that phone companies like Sprint and MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. had to fight during the '80's and '90's telecommunications wars as they battled the major Bell's for unrestricted line access to serve their customers," said Ted Lindsley, Founder & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of dataBahn. "Unasat's disregard for contractual agreements and commitments is shocking but their refusal to respond to our emails and phone calls made it clear these actions are intentional." dataBahn has secured new satellite capacity and network infrastructure to serve it's customers more effectively and has made a substantial capital investment in their own ground station and space segment access. These improvements will help dataBahn customers avoid an interruption in service, and significantly extend the reach and capabilities of the dataBahn services network. dataBahn has been dispatching technicians to every site location at no cost to the customer to provision the upgraded services. dataBahn's technology has been featured on ABC Television, CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. , CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. , The Discovery Channel and other national media and the company has a significant presence delivering enterprise class broadband services to oil & gas, construction, emergency response, disaster recovery, broadcasters and other commercial industries. Further information on dataBahn is available at the company's web site at http://www.thedataBahn.com. |
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