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Date: 23 Jan 2023 22:44:16 -0500
From: "Bill Horne" <malassimQRMilation@gmail.com>
Subject: T-Mobile Hacked For The Eighth Time In Five Years
From the zero-accountability dept
Mon, Jan 23rd 2023
By Karl Bode
T-Mobile hasn’t been what you’d call competent when it comes to
protecting its customers’ data. The company has now been hacked numerous
times just since 2018, with hackers at one point going so far as to
publicly ridicule the company’s lousy security practices.
Case in point: T-Mobile just revealed in an SEC filing (spotted by
TechCrunch) that the company was just hacked for the eighth time in five
years. This time impacting the privacy and security of 37 million
T-Mobile subscribers.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/23/t-mobile-hacked-eighth-time-in-five-years/
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Date: 23 Jan 2023 15:01:24 -0500
From: "Michael Trew" <michael.trew@att.net>
Subject: Re: T-Mobile eyeing Mint Mobile as acquisition target:
report
On 1/19/2023 8:33, Bill Horne wrote:
> By Monica Alleven
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> Is T-Mobile considering an acquisition of Mint Mobile, the
> budget-focused MVNO backed by actor Ryan Reynolds?
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> Bloomberg reported that T-Mobile is considering an acquisition of Mint
> Mobile, the MVNO backed by actor Ryan Reynolds.
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https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/t-mobile-eyeing-mint-mobile-acquisition-target-report
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Moderator's Note
I was under the impression that Mint was already part of T-Mobile -
that it was T-Mobile’s low-end brand, made to compete with Consumer
Cellular for Senior users.
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong.
Bill Horne | No, Mint Mobile is an independent MVNO, which operates off of both
T-Mobile's network. I think it was split from Ultra Mobile, which is
also an independent MVNO, running from T-Mobile towers.
T-Mobile owns Metro PCS; perhaps that's what you are thinking of?
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| Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.21.2301231209360.19200@bigone.uneedus.com>
Date: 23 Jan 2023 12:31:25 -0500
From: Albert Erdmann <telecom-digest@remove-this.bbwx.net>
Subject: Status of Copper Based Landline Telephones
The great sunset date by the FCC for Landlines has come and gone, and my 2
landlines at 2 different locations are at this time are still operating. I
have had a recent pair change done on one of the lines, and the tech told
me he knew of no plans to force retirement at this time.
My understanding is that carriers may continue to sell Copper Based
Landlines, but are no longer required to do so by the FCC. In fact based
on my experence, AT&T in the old Bellsouth region is not only offering
Copper Based landlines including mine, but in fact has a website where you
can still order one today.
Is anyone aware of any tracking of this issue anywhere on the internet? I
read a lot of issues of Telecom Digest around the sunset date, but it
appears that analog retirement has not really been covered here.
I have been investigating alternatives which do not require internet
access to work. I am trying a 4G router, specifically a Yeacomm P21, that
has an available RJ11 that is able to place and receive calls on a
standard landline phone using a mobile network.
Does anyone else have any other ideas? At one time even AT&T had a
similar box, and Verizon tried to migrate Hurricane Sandy people whose
lines were damaged over to such a box but ended up putting in fiber to
replace the damaged copper lines. Considering the so called "sunset", I
have seen very little promotion of any such boxes.
I am thinking about the many lines used for fire alarm and elevator
emergency phones. Any idea what building owners are doing in this regard?
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