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Date: 23 May 2023 11:30:11 -0400
From: "Fred Goldstein" <invalid@see-sig.invalid>
Subject: Re: Congress moves to preserve AM radio in cars
On 5/21/2023 4:45 PM, John Levine wrote:
> It appears that Garrett Wollman<wollman@bimajority.org> said:
>> And guess what? Your phone gets the same emergency alerts as the radio
>> stations do. That excuse simply doesn't hold water any more.
> I'm guessing you don't spend a lot of time driving around out in the
boondocks.
>
> As soon as you get off main roads in a hilly area, cell signals are
> hit and miss. Here in not particularly rural upstate NY I can show you
> places on state highways where there's no cell signal at all. I expect
> western Mass is the same way.
Western Mass. definitely is that way. Mobile phone coverage is spotty.
Hilly terrain gets in the way. The same applies elsewhere in the
Appalachian region, probably even up north into Canada.
Besides that, the experience of a car radio is different from a mobile
phone, and safer. I can turn on the radio and hear continuous
programming, and change the station with a button. Mobile Devices use
touch screens, which are inherently dangerous when driving. And the
canned programming you usually get on a mobile device leaves you out of
touch with news alerts anything short of a very serious emergency.
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Date: 23 May 2023 20:07:28 -0000
From: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@bimajority.org>
Subject: Re: Congress moves to preserve AM radio in cars
In article <accf3565f4114b2db0c466354ec7fce1@mishmash.com>,
Fred Atkinson <fatkinson@mishmash.com> wrote:
> The problem is that if our Internet goes down, we won't get those alerts.
You're not getting those alerts over "your Internet".
"CMAS messages, although displayed similarly to SMS text messages, are
always free and are routed through a separate service which will give
them priority over voice and regular text messages in congested
areas."
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Emergency_Alerts>
-GAWollman
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Date: 23 May 2023 14:40:49 -0700
From: "Neal McLain" <nmclain@annsgarden.com>
Subject: Re: New Area Code Assignments
On Monday, March 27, 1995 at 8:45:29PM UTC-6, Jeffrey William McKeough wrote:
> Speaking of new area codes, I had said that Connecticut's would be
> 890. However, according to two Connecticut television stations, it
> will be 860.
>
> Jeffrey McKeough ma...@oitunix.oit.umass.edu
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Date: 24 May 2023 13:27:22 -0700
From: "Randall" <rvh40@sonic.net>
Subject: Spam facilitator gets sued by Attorneys General
A company that allegedly facilitated billions of spam calls is being
sued by nearly every attorney general in the country for allegedly
violating consumer protection and telemarketing laws, according to a
complaint filed Tuesday.
Avid Telecom, a Voice over Internet Protocol provider, facilitated
more than 7.5 billion calls to numbers on the National Do Not Call
Registry, according to a complaint filed by AGs from 48 states plus
the District of Columbia. The complaint alleged Avid facilitated more
than 24.5 billion calls between December 2018 and January 2023, and
more than 90% of those calls lasted less than 15 seconds, indicating
they were likely robocalls.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/23/avid-telecom-facilitated-billions-of-spam-calls-state-ags-allege.html
Copy of court document:
https://oag.dc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-05/COMPLAINT_49%20AGs%20v%20Lansky%20dba%20Avid%20et%20al%20%281%29.pdf
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