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Message-ID: <20180718153523.GA9537@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:35:23 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
Subject: Study: Climate Change Could Destroy Internet In 15 Years
Philadelphia (CBS) - A new study suggests that rising sea levels due to
climate change could put an end to the internet as we know it.
The internet's buried infrastructure, which is 4,000 miles of fiber
optic cable, are at significant risk of being damaged by the year
2033, affecting New York, Miami and Seattle the most, according to
researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of
Oregon.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2018/07/18/climate-change-internet-15-years/
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Bill Horne
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Message-ID: <20180718154913.GA9588@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:49:13 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
Subject: AT&T suffers massive outage, users report mobile data (LTE)
issues
American multinational telecom company AT&T's cellular data service is
currently down, as is being reported by an endless stream of users on
micro-blogging site Twitter for past few hours.
Here's a selection of some of the just tweeted complaints highlighting
that mobile data is down/not working across multiple areas in the US
(as can also be clearly seen in the feature image of the story):
http://piunikaweb.com/2018/07/18/att-suffers-massive-outage-users-report-data-issues/
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Message-ID: <efdb9ca9-257f-4d56-bd5c-cf3d0857750a@googlegroups.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:20:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Re: Kavanaugh's Nomination Could Be A Win For Big Telecom
On Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at 12:04:32 AM UTC-4, Bill Horne wrote:
> By Kelcee Griffis
>
> Law360 (July 13, 2018) -- As a D.C. Circuit judge for the last 12
> years, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has a well-defined
> record on telecom issues that has benefited large internet service
> providers and cable companies when faced with complaints that they
> have harmed competition and when they face zealous regulators.
>
>
https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/1063112/kavanaugh-s-nomination-could-be-a-win-for-big-telecom?nl_pk=f21e3e20-c2d8-490d-899f-1e657ec763e0&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=telecom
That might be a big win for the large companies, but it may be bad for
small companies and individuals.
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Message-ID: <pil2l8$ojp$1@grapevine.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 15:40:24 +0000 (UTC)
From: wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Re: Verizon will no longer activate 3G phones; network will
shut down at the end of 2019
Alan Friedman wrote for phonearena.com:
> ... A statement released today by Big Red confirms that the nation's
> largest carrier is no longer activating devices that do not support
> 4G LTE connectivity.
Note that there are a large number of timekeeping devices deployed
which depend on the IS-95/IS-2000 CDMA netwok to deliver precision
time synchronization. Unlike LTE, the CDMA network was designed to
deliver a precise GPS time reference to all receivers, even those
which are not (paying) authenticated clients.
-GAWollman
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Message-ID: <05B00AEA-65E6-4594-AD74-B280F95EA609@remove-this.wb4aej.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 03:05:57 -0700
From: "Fred Atkinson, WB4AEJ" <fred@remove-this.wb4aej.com>
Subject: reply to voice mail question
Message-ID: <E705A989-5F31-411E-854C-691B79EAD27B@jt-mj.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 17:15:26 -0400 From: Julian Thomas <jt@jt-mj.net>
>
> Subject: doing without a landline
>
> Is there any way that 2 cell phones [same carrier, shared plan] can be
> configured so that if a call goes to voicemail on one it also shows up
> on the other as new voicemail?
When I worked for SkyTel in the nineties, I discovered that both
my landline and my cellular companies could add a service called
'Fixed Call Forwarding'. This allowed calls made to either of my
numbers to roll over to another pre-defined number after several rings
or roll directly over to another number if my line was busy.
As they provided me with their Sky-Talk voice mail and my own
toll-free access number for my voice mail service, I got the service
on both lines and had them set my toll-free SkyTalk number as the
number to roll over to. I was alerted on my company SkyPager when a
message was left for me.
So when a voice mail was left, I was alerted on my SkyPager. I
could dial my toll-free number and recover the message. Their service
is still around. But they operate as 'American Messaging' now. They
still sell service as SkyPager and SkyTalk.
After I left SkyTel [and no longer had their pager as my company
perk], I found a company that provided dial up voice mail accounts.
They gave me a local number and I had both lines changed to roll over
to that number instead.
You could see if your phone providers can offer the fixed call
forwarding if you can get voice mail with a separate dial up number.
Perhaps they could even text your cell phone to alert you that voice
mail has been received.
Fred
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