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The Telecom Digest for Thu, 25 Jun 2020
Volume 39 : Issue 160 : "text" format

table of contents
How to Suspend Your Phone Service to Save Money
If T-Mobile's Giant Outage Affected You, Now's Your Chance To Tell the FCC
Did a Phone Service Outage Enable COVID-19 Tracking Apps To Be Placed in Phones?
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20200624193107.GA10518@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 19:31:07 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: How to Suspend Your Phone Service to Save Money By Julian Chokkattu You're probably using less cellular data while you shelter in place. Here's how you can temporarily pause your account - or switch to a cheaper network. IN THE PAST few months, I've used very, very little cellular data. Yet my family has paid around $200 per month for our five-member unlimited-data family plan on AT&T. That seems ... silly, to put it nicely. If you've thought the same, well, you have a few options. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-suspend-your-phone-service-and-data-plan/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <F2E1AA4E-AB5B-47B5-8F2F-0091C793505C@roscom.com> Date: 23 Jun 2020 18:32:41 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: If T-Mobile's Giant Outage Affected You, Now's Your CHance To Tell the FCC If T-Mobile's giant outage affected you, now's your chance to tell the FCC FCC asks public to describe experiences during last week's 13-hour outage. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/if-t-mobiles-giant-outage-affected-you-nows-your-chance-to-tell-the-fcc/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200624193627.GA10557@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 19:36:28 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Did a Phone Service Outage Enable COVID-19 Tracking Apps To Be Placed in Phones? A pandemic and a phone network disruption created fresh conspiracy theories. By Nur Ibrahim Claim: A cellular service outage on June 15, 2020, enabled Apple and Google to covertly install COVID-19 tracking apps onto phones. Rating: Mostly false. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/phone-outage-covid19-tracking-apps/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 25 Jun 2020
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