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Friday, February 17, 2023

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Volume 42 Table of Contents Issue 48
T-Mobile to finally turn off 2G in 2024
AT&T Gets Set to Cohabit in Frontier Central Offices
"Crab Cakes And Football" And Now Autodialers, "That's What Maryland Does!"
Message-ID: <20230216154804.GA1540956@telecomdigest.us> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:48:04 -0500 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: T-Mobile to finally turn off 2G in 2024 By Mike Dano T-Mobile recently disclosed that it will turn off its 2G GSM network on April 2, 2024. The move follows the operator's dismantling of its 3G networks, and Sprint's 3G and 4G networks, during 2022. “Across the industry, wireless companies have retired older network technologies as part of an important progression to ensure all customers can enjoy a more advanced 4G and 5G network,”  T-Mobile explained on its website.  “Moving customers who are on old networks onto modern, advanced high-speed networks means they will need to have phones and devices that can tap into the latest technologies.” https://www.lightreading.com/5g-and-beyond/t-mobile-to-finally-turn-off-2g-in-2024/d/d-id/783266 -- Please remove QRM for direct replies
Message-ID: <20230215163501.GA1533781@telecomdigest.us> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 11:35:01 -0500 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: AT&T Gets Set to Cohabit in Frontier Central Offices AT&T and Frontier have signed a deal that will enable AT&T to deploy wireless infrastructure in Frontier central offices. The deal also calls for AT&T to purchase fiber connectivity to connect with cell towers that are in Frontier’s network. Asked about the equipment that will go in the central offices, an AT&T spokesperson said, “We’ll strategically begin to centralize the cell site baseband units (controllers) where it makes sense to do so for operational efficiencies.” https://www.telecompetitor.com/att-gets-set-to-cohabit-in-frontier-central-offices/ -- Please remove QRM for direct replies
Message-ID: <tsjnav$30jiu$1@dont-email.me> Date: 15 Feb 2023 17:45:53 -0500 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: "Crab Cakes And Football" And Now Autodialers, "That's What Maryland Does!" by Daniel Blynn Maryland Telemarketing Bill Looks to Join Florida in Expansively Prohibiting the Use of  “Automated Systems for the Selection or Dialing of Telephone Numbers.” Steptoe telemarketing litigation partner new guy Dan Blynn here with a recent state telemarketing law development out of Maryland - and it’s not a good one.  Specifically, in mid-January 2023, Maryland Senate Bill 90, entitled the  “Stop the Spam Calls Act of 2023,”  was introduced. A hearing was held on the bill in the state Senate Finance Committee just last week, on February 1, 2023. While laudable in its aim, like Florida’s and other states’ recent telemarketing law amendments before it, the bill only serves to inject ambiguity and raise questions regarding what is prohibited. If passed, the Stop the Spam Calls Act of 2023 will help feather the nests (more) of the plaintiffs’ class action bar without offering meaningful relief to Maryland residents. https://www.mondaq.com/article/news/1281352?q=1803232&n=698&tp=2&tlk=2&lk=28 -- Please remove QRM for direct replies
End of The Telecom Digest for Fri, 17 Feb 2023
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