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| Message-ID: <20230126170207.GA1381641@telecomdigest.us> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 12:02:07 -0500 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: AT&T and Verizon cut 9,400 jobs last quarter News Analysis Iain Morris, International Editor Employees had only just made it back through the revolving doors of the post-pandemic office facility before they were sent spinning outside once again, this time clutching the standard-issue cardboard boxes for those laid off. After adding thousands of employees in the last few years, Big Tech has spotted a downturn and begun hacking into its workforce to preserve margins and keep investors smiling. Yet Big Telecom has been at job cuts for much longer. Just look at AT&T and Verizon. Back in 2015, when pandemics were confined to sci-fi movies and history, the US operators were able to count 459,150 people across their combined operations at the end of the year. By the end of 2021, 138,150 net roles had vanished. The sale of data centers and media assets removed thousands of jobs from the books, with others sacrificed in the relentless pursuit of efficiency. https://www.lightreading.com/aiautomation/atandt-and-verizon-cut-9400-jobs-last-quarter/d/d-id/782876 -- (Pleaes remove QRM for direct replies) |
| Message-ID: <F105462D-6DD1-49E4-BD24-08B0C7D794F3@roscom.com> Date: 20 Jan 2023 16:38:31 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: U.S. ‘No Fly List’ Leaks After Being Left in an Unsecured Airline Server U.S. ‘No Fly List’ Leaks After Being Left in an Unsecured Airline Server The list, which was discovered by a Swiss hacker, contains names and birth dates and over 1 million entries. https://www.vice.com/en/article/93a4p5/us-no-fly-list-leaks-after-being-left-in-an-unsecured-airline-server |
| Message-ID: <tr0f4h$1jj6u$8@dont-email.me> Date: 27 Jan 2023 13:13:05 +0100 From: "Marco Moock" <mo01@posteo.de> Subject: Re: Status of Copper Based Landline Telephones Am 26.01.2023 schrieb "Marc SCHAEFER" <schaefer@alphanet.ch>: > - the VoIP routers also run on batteries The entire network needs to run. Bigger computing centres have a battery backup and a generator for all their machines including network, but smaller offices/buildings mostly don't have that, so network (including routers, switches, telephone exchanges) go down - either immediately or after some minutes because the batteries are only there to ensure a graceful shutdown to avoid data corruption. |
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