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The Telecom Digest
Monday, January 23, 2023

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Volume 42 Table of Contents Issue 23
T-Mobile says investigating data breach involving 37 mln accounts
Online Guides – The Trojan Horse Of ICT Contracts
The Notebook Dump: DirecTV layoffs, T-Mobile may want Mint Mobile, FCC map challenges
T-Mobile Says Hacker Got Data From 37 Million Customer Accounts
Wireless Customers Who Were Subject to Data Throttling by AT&T Can Apply for a Payment from the FTC
Unpacking the math behind AT&T’s 5G and fiber spending
Message-ID: <tqeb0r$23hrl$1@dont-email.me> Date: 20 Jan 2023 10:12:27 -0500 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: T-Mobile says investigating data breach involving 37 mln accounts Jan 20 (Reuters) - T-Mobile (TMUS.O), the No.3 U.S. wireless carrier by subscribers, said on Thursday it was investigating a data breach involving 37 million postpaid and prepaid accounts and that it could incur significant costs related to the incident. The company, which has more than 110 million subscribers, said it identified malicious activity on Jan. 5 and contained it within a day, adding that no sensitive data such as financial information was compromised. https://www.reuters.com/technology/t-mobile-says-investigating-data-breach-affecting-37-mln-accounts-2023-01-19/ -- (Please remove QRM for direct replies)
Message-ID: <tqbngh$1jan9$2@dont-email.me> Date: 19 Jan 2023 10:27:17 -0500 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Online Guides – The Trojan Horse Of ICT Contracts by Laura F. H. McDonald Most enterprise telecommunication contracts contain terms that are quite unfriendly to the customer. That’s because these unfavorable terms are hidden in the carrier’s online terms known as service guides, guides, service publications, and other benign terms. Listen to this 12-minute podcast as Laura McDonald, a Senior Partner at LB3, and TC2’s Joe Schmidt provide a brief history of how telecom services have moved from tariffs to today’s negotiated deals, how the carriers' online terms work, and what you can do to mitigate some of the risk the online guides pose to your contract. https://www.mondaq.com/article/news/1270434?q=1803232&n=673&tp=3&tlk=8&lk=29 -- (Please remove QRM for direct replies)
Message-ID: <tqem0u$23hrl$3@dont-email.me> Date: 20 Jan 2023 13:20:14 -0500 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: The Notebook Dump: DirecTV layoffs, T-Mobile may want Mint Mobile, FCC map challenges In the Notebook Dump for the week ending January 13, Jeff Baumgartner, Mike Dano, Nicole Ferraro, Phil Harvey and Kelsey Ziser discuss DirecTV’s layoffs, more problems emerging for the pay-TV market and why Nicole Ferraro gets a kick out of watching football. In addition, we cover a few cloud and data center updates, T-Mobile’s reported plans to acquire Mint Mobile and an update on the FCC’s Broadband Map. The stories covered include: DirecTV cuts hundreds of jobs, 10% of its managers YouTube needs 4.5M subs to break even on NFL Sunday Ticket – analyst Mint Mobile, backed by Ryan Reynolds, is up for sale FCC has received ‘thousands’ of consumer challenges to broadband map https://www.lightreading.com/videomedia/the-notebook-dump-directv-layoffs-t-mobile-may-want-mint-mobile-fcc-map-challenges/v/d-id/782700 -- (Please remove QRM for direct replies)
Message-ID: <tqeb6o$23hrl$2@dont-email.me> Date: 20 Jan 2023 10:15:36 -0500 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: T-Mobile Says Hacker Got Data From 37 Million Customer Accounts The breach exposed information like names, addresses and phone numbers and lasted more than a month, the company reported in a securities filing. By Niraj Chokshi T-Mobile said on Thursday that a hacker had collected data, including names, birth dates and phone numbers, from 37 million customer accounts, the company’s second major breach in less than two years. In a securities filing, T-Mobile said it first discovered that a “bad actor” was obtaining the data on Jan. 5. With help from outside cybersecurity experts, the mobile service provider stopped the leak the next day, it said. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/business/t-mobile-hacked-data-breach.html -- (Please remove QRM for direct replies)
Message-ID: <20230123021150.GA1340137@telecomdigest.us> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 02:11:50 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Wireless Customers Who Were Subject to Data Throttling by AT&T Can Apply for a Payment from the FTC Those who had unlimited data plans with AT&T between 2011-2015 may be eligible. The Federal Trade Commission opened a claims process for former AT&T customers who have yet to claim a refund stemming from the FTC’s lawsuit against the company for misleading consumers about its unlimited data plans. Former AT&T customers may be eligible to claim a refund from the $7 million remaining in a fund created to settle allegations that the wireless provider charged for “unlimited” data plans while reducing their data speeds, a practice known as throttling. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/01/wireless-customers-who-were-subject-data-throttling-att-can-apply-payment-ftc -- (Please remove QRM for direct replies)
Message-ID: <tqem4n$23hrl$4@dont-email.me> Date: 20 Jan 2023 13:22:15 -0500 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Unpacking the math behind AT&T’s 5G and fiber spending By Mike Dano AT&T executives have made it clear that the company’s network-spending priorities center on expanding its 5G and fiber networks. However, the exact details of that effort have sparked consternation among some financial analysts tasked with modeling AT&T’s capital expenses (capex). “AT&T has emphasized the expansion of the company’s fiber footprint as core to the company’s strategy going forward. We believe, though, that the company’s fiber build pace has likely peaked, and is likely to slow from 2022 levels going forward,” wrote the financial analysts at Evercore ISI in a recent note to investors. https://www.lightreading.com/broadband/fttx/unpacking-math-behind-atandts-5g-and-fiber-spending-/d/d-id/782793 -- (Please remove QRM for direct replies)
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