---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20191019162953.GA22346@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 16:29:53 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Opinion: Shame on the Regulators By Doug Dawson It's clear that even before the turn of this century that the big telcos largely walked away from maintaining and improving residential service. The evidence for this is the huge numbers of neighborhoods that are stuck with older copper technologies that haven't been upgraded. The telcos made huge profits over the decades in these neighborhoods and ideally should not have been allowed to walk away from their customers. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20191018_shame_on_the_regulators/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20191019163419.GA22381@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 16:34:19 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: 'Bermuda Triangle:' Charlotte's South End constantly loses cell phone, Internet connections By Bria Bell CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Having weak cell phone service and a bad internet connection is frustrating for anyone of us. Charlotte's South End, which is filled with apartments, businesses and restaurants, is known to constantly have that problem. It's something that's been going on for years according to people in that area. https://www.wbtv.com/2019/10/18/charlottes-south-end-nicknamed-bermuda-triangle-residents-constantly-lose-cell-phone-internet-connection/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <E11E3E59-8611-4BC1-950D-FC0C4C524083@roscom.com> Date: 18 Oct 2019 02:51:10 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Some of the UK's phone number infrastructure relies on Yahoo Groups, which is shutting down This is 100 percent true, but don't be worried: they use the group as an email list. By Bijan Stephe Yahoo Groups is about to shut down, and it's taking a lot of the old web with it. All content that had been posted there will be deleted by mid-December, and although it will be available for download before the end comes, the site will be largely shuttered by the end of this month. Because Yahoo didn't give the internet much warning, a lot of weird externalities of the company's decision are being worked out in public. One that's particularly surprising: the United Kingdom's phone system actually relies in part on a Yahoo group founded in 2002 - which I learned about through a tweet. https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/17/20919630/yahoo-groups-uk-ofcom-simwood-numbers ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 20 Oct 2019