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The Telecom Digest for Mon, 12 Apr 2021
Volume 40 : Issue 102 : "text" format

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What is the actual technical reason that would explain why T-Mobile is trying to get legacy Sprint customers to swap SIMs?
Plain Text: United States Supreme Court Narrowly Interprets Definition Of Automatic Telephone Dialing System In Closely-Watched Facebook TCPA Decision
Marlborough, MA: Request For Public Comments And Input Regarding Renewal Of The Verizon Cable License

Message-ID: <007301d72e58$dbaae9d0$9300bd70$@gmail.com> Date: 10 Apr 2021 18:28:40 -0400 From: bob.goudreau@gmail.com Subject: What is the actual technical reason that would explain why T-Mobile is trying to get legacy Sprint customers to swap SIMs? I've had a family plan account for several years from Sprint, which was acquired by T-Mobile last year. They have been gradually combining operations, and now I am being urged (though not required) to "Upgrade to our bigger + better network at no extra cost" by swapping the SIM cards in my account's phones for new T-Mo SIMs. The online chat agent was predictably useless in answering my questions about why such a switch would be necessary (such "why can't the T-Mo towers simply recognize legacy-Sprint SIMs in addition to recognizing T-Mo SIMs?"). Given cautionary tales such as https://www.reddit.com/r/Sprint/comments/kyxdkx/any_sprint_users_switch_to_the_tmobile_sim_cards/ ... I am reluctant to try to fix something that isn't broken. The fact that T-Mo historically has offered inferior coverage in my local market (though I recognize that this may have changed) is also giving me pause, as I cannot determine whether a new SIM would give me access to *more* towers (all the legacy Sprint ones, plus all the T-Mobile ones), or instead merely give me access to a different set of towers (i.e., excluding the Sprint towers I am using now). Can any Digest readers who are knowledgeable about this issue share what they know? Thanks, Bob Goudreau Cary, NC
Message-ID: <20210410040616.319EB7FE@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 04:06:16 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Plain Text: United States Supreme Court Narrowly Interprets Definition Of Automatic Telephone Dialing System In Closely-Watched Facebook TCPA Decision by Andrew Bluth , Amy Pierce , Danielle E. Stierna and Sherman McFarland Sacramento, Calif. (April 2, 2021) - On April 1, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal's interpretation of the definition of "automatic telephone dialing system" (ATDS), or autodialer, under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The Court held that a "necessary feature" of an ATDS "is the capacity to use a random or sequential number generator to either store or produce phone numbers to be called." The Court's strict statutory interpretation of ATDS could prove to be a major impediment to the TCPA plaintiffs' bar, which has argued the definition of ATDS covers equipment that can store and dial telephone numbers, or be modified to do so, even if the equipment does not use a random or sequential number generator. https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/telecoms-mobile-cable-communications/1054730/plain-text-united-states-supreme-court-narrowly-interprets-definition-of-automatic-telephone-dialing-system-in-closely-watched-facebook-tcpa-decision?email_access=on
Message-ID: <20210411052340.40702770@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 05:23:40 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Marlborough, MA: Request For Public Comments And Input Regarding Renewal Of The Verizon Cable License City of Marlborough MA Cable License Renewal Continuing Ascertainment Process Request for Public Comments. Press release from the City of Marlborough: April 9, 2021 City of Marlborough Cable License Renewal Continuing Ascertainment Process Request for Public Comments and Input Regarding Renewal of the Cable License of Verizon of New England, Inc. https://patch.com/massachusetts/marlborough/marlborough-request-public-comments-input-regarding-renewal-verizon-cable

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