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Date: 24 Jan 2023 12:00:50 -0500
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: T-Mobile urged to stop using ‘fast,’ ‘high-speed’ or
‘reliable’ in FWA ads
News Analysis
Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading
The US broadband industry is keeping the National Advertising Division
(NAD) pretty busy these days.
In yet another complaint among broadband rivals pertaining to
advertising messaging, T-Mobile came away with the green light to
continue using its price lock claim for its fixed wireless access (FWA)
service, but NAD urged the company to drop claims related to speeds and
other attributes of its growing home broadband service.
https://www.lightreading.com/broadband/t-mobile-urged-to-stop-using-fast-high-speed-or-reliable-in-fwa-ads-/d/d-id/782837
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| Message-ID: <tqp32g$7idh$2@dont-email.me>
Date: 24 Jan 2023 12:04:15 -0500
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: Best Cell Phone Plans for Older People
If you’re 55 or older, you might be able to save money with these deals
from AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon
By Melanie Pinola
Updated January 24, 2023
Getting older has its benefits, especially if you’re looking to save
some money on your cell phone bill.
The “big three” wireless providers—AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon—all offer
discounts for older people that could save you as much as $60 per month
on the price of unlimited talk, text, and data plans.
https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/cell-phones-services/best-cell-phone-plans-for-seniors-a1080365788/
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| Message-ID: <tqo8r5$mra$1@shakotay.alphanet.ch>
Date: 24 Jan 2023 09:36:37 -0000
From: "Marc SCHAEFER" <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
Subject: Re: Status of Copper Based Landline Telephones
Albert Erdmann <telecom-digest@remove-this.bbwx.net> wrote:
> 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?
In Switzerland, they had to be replaced either by GSM (and 4G/5G
presumably, because 2G is already obsolete, and 3G will become obsolete
soon), or VoIP.
I heard of some cases where they still had the analog dialing devices
(the WSG35-2 was very popular, it was a modem that could also just dial
and then switch to an analog microphone). They now plugged those to the
ATA port of a VoIP router. As long as the dialing device uses DTMF to
dial, it works like a charm.
Then you just need to either ask those systems to poll the central
monitoring system every now and then to check they are still
operationnal (which most of those systems did anyway in the past
already). They usually used DTMF for checking-in, which works best when
decoded at the ATA itself.
If they used real modem modulation, they are better off replacing the
modem part completely by an IP signaling or GSM system, although my
tests have shown that the VoIP network can still mostly work at 2400
bit/s with e.g. V22bis seems to still work. I could not get higher
speeds even with parameter tweaking and no codec conversion. I used real
modems on both sides: using a DSP directly attached to the VoIP network
might get much better results.
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