---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20191205172420.GA8070@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 17:24:20 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Orange County, CA news site claims AT&T and SBC Global blocked their newsfeed This is from a web page published by the Orange County Breeze, as of 13:00 EST on 2019-12-05. - - - - - - - - - A bit of (forced) housekeeping for our Daily Overnight News Summary By: C.E.H. Wiedel Tagged: Overnight News Summary, Orange County Breeze We apologize to subscribers of our Daily Overnight News Summary with email addresses served by SBC Global. For some reason, SBC Global and AT&T have put Orange County Breeze on a "do not deliver" blacklist. Delivery of our Daily Overnight News Summary to anyone with an email address ending in @sbcglobal.net or @att.net is blocked. http://www.oc-breeze.com/2019/12/04/148974_a-bit-of-forced-housekeeping-for-our-daily-overnight-news-summary/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <c4fdb9ee-f81e-4f41-8a19-caa7114110da@googlegroups.com> Date: 6 Dec 2019 12:58:56 -0800 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: 37 state AGs accuse CenturyLink of 'weaponizing' class settlement to evade AG suit On Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 2:39:07 PM UTC-5, Bill Horne wrote: > (Reuters) - In these hyper-partisan times, any newly-filed brief that > includes signatures from the Attorneys General of 36 states and the > District of Columbia is worthy of attention - especially when the AGs > have joined forces to argue that a defendant is attempting to evade a > state enforcement action by settling a private class action on the > cheap. Many of the areas served by Century Link were once served by the independent telephone companies, one of which was GTE. Here is an ad by them: https://archive.org/details/the-saturday-evening-post-1963-07-13/page/n13 ------------------------------ Message-ID: <f719e115-401f-42f8-a68d-0d9623c57f1b@googlegroups.com> Date: 6 Dec 2019 13:04:32 -0800 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: Idaho: Bannock County Sheriff's Office phone system working again after long outage On Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 10:37:45 AM UTC-5, Bill Horne wrote: > By Journal Staff 11/16/2019 > > Update: The Bannock County Sheriff's Office reported Saturday night > that its phone system was working again after an outage that began > Friday night. The Automatic Electric Company, a competitor to Western Electric, made emergency telephone systems. Here is a 1961 ad by them. https://archive.org/details/the-saturday-evening-post-1961-03-04/page/n84 ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 08 Dec 2019