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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 17:53:10 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: U.S. Dept. of Defense awards Verizon nearly a billion
in new business
Media contact(s)
Geoffrey Basye
(202) 748-1882
geoffrey.basye@verizon.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded
Verizon Public Sector three Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS)
task order awards worth $966.5 million. Verizon will provide network
modernization services and technical support services to the Pentagon,
the DOD National Capital Region (NCR) and Fort Belvoir.
Under the Pentagon task order valued at $515.3 million, Verizon will
partner with the DOD to transition the entire Pentagon military and
civilian population from copper-based telephony to advanced internet
protocol (IP)-based services, providing a converged-enterprise
environment for the Pentagon's voice and data services. This includes
converting more than 52,000 voice lines to an integrated IP
environment with optimized voice and video services.
Verizon professional services will provide the DOD with a dedicated
support team to help plan, design and implement network upgrades and
new equipment at the Pentagon.
https://www.verizon.com/about/news/us-dept-defense-awards-verizon-nearly-1-billion-new-business
Bill
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Message-ID: <20220316191231.DB5A48B7@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 19:12:31 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: T-Mobile CFO disses competition from cable MVNOs
T-Mobile US CFO Peter Osvaldik claims his company isn't threatened by
cable operators offering more competitively priced low-tier and
mid-tier unlimited MVNO plans.
Osvaldik (pictured) used an investor conference yesterday (15 March)
to argue that T-Mobile US enjoys competition because it creates
"consideration" moments for consumers and enterprises that his
company tends to win.
Despite Charter Communications and Comcast continuing to add wireless
subscribers in the US through their respective MVNO agreements with
Verizon, Osvaldik doesn't see them as much of a threat. Charter and
Comcast both had more than 2 million wireless subscribers as of the
most recent fourth quarter, which includes subscribers using Wi-Fi
(GSMA Intelligence puts T-Mobile's connections base at 109 million).
https://www.mobileworldlive.com/featured-content/top-three/t-mobile-cfo-disses-competition-from-cable-mvnos
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Message-ID: <20220316190359.DF2888B7@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 19:03:59 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: Here's who is leading AT&T's quest for broadband grants
By Diana Goovaerts
AT&T CEO John Stankey revealed the operator has set up a dedicated
internal team to focus on chasing its fair share of the billions in
government funding being allocated for broadband deployments.
An operator representative told Fierce that effort is being led by
President of Broadband Access and Adoption Jeff Luong. Luong has been
with AT&T for more than 15 years, assuming his current role in June
2021. Before that, he spent five years as the operator's VP of access
construction and engineering, his LinkedIn profile shows.
https://www.fiercetelecom.com/broadband/heres-whos-leading-atts-government-funding-push
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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 18:57:55 +0000 (UTC)
From: Sean Murphy <murphy.s@remove-this.telecomdigest.net>
Subject: OAN owners sue AT&T after it dropped right-wing network,
alleging a 'coordinated political scheme'
Herring Networks could take a more than $1 billion hit from AT&T and
DirecTV's decision not to renew One America News, according to
the lawsuit.
Right-wing cable network One America News is suing Dallas-based AT&T
and DirecTV, alleging the companies breached their contract with OAN
and conspired with a company currently suing OAN's owners.
AT&T and DirecTV became the target of liberal criticism over the
last year for continuing to carry the pro-Donald Trump OAN network
which helped spread misinformation about the 2020 election being
stolen – in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/local-companies/2022/03/15/oan-owners-sue-att-after-dropping-right-wing-network-allege-coordinated-political-scheme/
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Date: 16 Mar 2022 17:46:47 -0500
From: "GlowingBlueMist" <GlowingBlueMist@blackhole.io>
Subject: Re: August 2nd, 2022 - The Decommissioning of Copper Gets Real
On 3/15/2022 9:59 AM, Bill Horne wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 10:58:41PM -0700, Fred Atkinson wrote:
>>
>> Networks are aging, parts are unavailable, and technicians are
>> retiring. If your organization uses copper-based services, make
>> a plan to eliminate them quickly.
>>
>>
https://www.nojitter.com/consultant-perspectives/decommissioning-copper-gets-real
>
> The "nojitter" article is a paen to the all-mighty "MOTHER BELL" and
> her infinite wisdom: Ms. Munro's breathless boosterism includes these
> paragraphs:
>
> Carriers have quietly tried to eliminate POTS lines, DSL, primary
> rate interfaces (PRIs), and private data services delivered over
> this old copper cable network. Carriers have been slowly
> attempting to discourage continued use of these services, by
> increasing pricing, not renewing contracts, ending maintenance
> and support, and requiring customers to move to VoIP (fiber)
> based services.
>
> The subtle approach changed recently when Verizon Business sent a
> notice to all of its channel sales organizations that said all
> customers with a current VZB POTS line must completely migrate to
> a new product no later than April 30, 2022. Customers who don'dt
> migrate will be subject to disconnection on or after April 30,
> 2022. Verizon Business operates in about a dozen states. Though
> Verizon Business only mentions POTS lines, this announcement has
> big implications for everyone.
>
> First, the obvious: VoIP is not equal to fiber. Phone companies love
> VoIP because it hides a multitude of sins, like the ongoing efforts to
> shuffle all trunk lines on to the Internet, thus externalizing the
> cost of maintaining them on to <anyone else>. The virtual-circuit,
> switched-with-links-in-tandem paradigm is now passé. What nobody wants
> to think about is the dramatic increases in fire and theft insurnce
> costs which the business owners are soon to be hit with, since their
> dedicted-pair phone lines are soon to be "as available" connections
> which are neither "always on," nor reliable.
>
> Second, the all-too-obvious: "Carriers" haven't done anything
> "quietly." They have been trying, in ways both subtle and gross, to
> rid themselve of their well-paid, hard-working, loyal, and, yes, aging
> union workforce. It seems the old "Get in the truck" dedication and
> "hard work is its own reward" tradition is no longer fashionable, at
> least when the executives at the ilec's have to choose between their
> million-dollar bonuses or loyalty to the men and women who made them
> possible, and the union men who raised their familiess and paid their
> mortgages with notions of hard work, best-in-the-world service, and
> no-excuses "always on" service are soon to be museum displays.
In my area the the last two or more years the DSL and phone company have
been actively forcing their network into failure by removing the rain
tight covers off of any junction point when technicians make ANY repair
or installation. They throw away the actual cover and replace it with
an orange plastic bag and a zip tie or two. As the bags age and fall
apart they are not replaced. They are doing this on all above ground
connections.
From talking to the technicians (off the record) the goal is to make
things bad enough that they can go crying to the local authorities and
try to get them to pay for part or all of a fiber replacement of the
"bad" cables.
