---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20200618200133.GA13546@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 20:01:33 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: CenturyLink swipes Raytheon's head privacy lawyer IN BRIEF: CenturyLink swipes Raytheon's head privacy lawyer By Caroline Spiezio CenturyLink Inc on Wednesday announced that Hugo Teufel, the former head of privacy for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, who more recently had worked at Raytheon Co, has joined it as chief privacy officer. https://www.reuters.com/article/lawyer-moves-centurylink/in-brief-centurylink-swipes-raytheons-head-privacy-lawyer-idUSL1N2DV0J1 -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200618202110.GA13651@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 20:21:10 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: FCC chairman calls T-Mobile outage "unacceptable," promises to launch investigation Pai is down on being down By Sebastian Moss In a Twitter post, Chairman Ajit Pai claimed that the Federal Communications Commission will launch an investigation into T-Mobile. The head of the FCC called the major T-Mobile outage earlier this week "unacceptable," after customers were unable to use voice and some data services for several hours. The issue also impacted other carriers when customers tried to contact T-Mobile subscribers. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fcc-chairman-calls-t-mobile-outage-unacceptable-promises-launch-investigation/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <CAH8yC8=7_mvwAcbhwUDOKQ41vVyK=5+_y66W64Oo_7dQ8PpU4A@mail.gmail.com> Date: 17 Jun 2020 22:18:30 -0400 From: "Jeffrey Walton" <noloader@gmail.com> Subject: Data Point: FTC Reports Decline in Robocall Complaints Robocall complaints from consumers declined in the last two months, reflecting enforcement efforts by the Federal Trade Commission, according to a news release from the FTC . "The FTC's latest Do Not Call Registry data shows robocall complaints were down 68% in April 2020 compared to April 2019 and down 60% in May 2020 compared to May 2019." The numbers continued a downward year-over-year trend that started in May 2019, the FTC reports. The number of robocalls reported in April and May 2020 reached a record low compared to every month since August 2011. This excludes months when the Do Not Call Registry website was down due to government shutdowns, according to the FTC. ... https://www.acainternational.org/news/data-point-ftc-reports-decline-in-robocall-complaints ------------------------------ Message-ID: <86bllfol1t.fsf@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: 19 Jun 2020 02:18:22 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Is it time to adopt the UTF-8 character set for the Digest? [nfp] I and the other members of the Telecom Digest staff have been talking about switching from the ISO-8859-1 character set to the UTF-8 set. Here's why I think it's time to make the switch: 1. Almost all posts which are composed in Mail/News clients are using UTF-8 now. 2. AFAICT, all posts from Google Groups are arriving in UTF-8 format. 3. ISO-8859-1 is rare now: I haven't seen it on any websites for a year or two. 4. The ISO-8859-1 character set does not contain a full complement of international characters. 5. Converting accented characters from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 is a /very/ time-consuming manual effort, complicated by the fact that the emacs editor I employ to approve posts uses UTF-8 as its "native" character set. What I once thought would be a simple delete-and-insert job to substitute ISO-8859-1 values for accented characters and special symbols is often a convoluted effort that requires me to type entire sentences or even paragraphs over, by hand, to avoid unwanted extra characters that somehow cling to the existing text without showing in emacs. (If you know *why*, PLEASE share that info!) 6. There are online character-set conversion sites I'm able to use /sometimes/ - but they don't handle all character sets, and text which has been pasted into a post from a commercial word-processing program can have proprietary character sets that require specialized conversion software I don't have, and even more time, which I don't have either. However, I do not know how many newsreaders or other software still use ISO-8859-1, and that's why I'm asking your opinions. If you cannot write or read posts which are composed using UTF-8, I want to know about that. You'll need to modify the Digest's address in an obvious way in order to reply. N.B. The subject line of this post is marked with the "[nfp]" glyph, which means your replies are Not For Publication. Bill -- Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 19 Jun 2020