---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20160711145921.GA18755@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 10:59:21 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: What happens when fiber breaks? The "Baby Bells" are rushing toward an all-fiber infrastructure at lightspeed, but IMNSHO they seem unable - or unwilling - to consider the long-term costs. The fiber-based infrastructure that is so seductive to experts looking for quick fixes and easy money has a downside that nobody is talking about - it's brittle. Fargo, North Dakota may seem insignificant, but wait until a tugboat drags its anchor alone the East river in New York - or an oil trunk catches fire in one of the tunnels - and then watch the "experts" run for cover and point fingers at anyone else. - - - - - FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) Phone and internet services were impacted by a damaged CenturyLink fiber cable on Friday. The loss of services even put a damper on many travel plans at Hector International Airport. The Valley News team explains how airlines had to resort to some non-technological ways. Contractors were hard at work on a city project off 19th Avenue North and Broadway when they hit a CenturyLink fiber cable causing a loss of many services. http://www.valleynewslive.com/home/headlines/Hector-Airport-experienced-phone-and-internet-outage-due-to-damaged-CenturyLink-fiber-cable-386093711.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <wxv1jbttls5w.12hlj31qpfy2k$.dlg@40tude.net> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 01:03:07 -0400 From: tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> Subject: Re: Your Verizon Bill Is About to Go Up On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:54:51 -0400, Bill Horne wrote: > Verizon announced Wednesday that it will hike prices on its plans, It'll be interesting to see whether Verizon MVNO Page Plus Cellular will be able to hold the line on its prices or will follow suit in hiking them up. Cheers, -- tlvp -- Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20160711150412.GA18780@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 11:04:12 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Centurylink and Fairpoint join "Special Access Coalition" CenturyLink and FairPoint Communications are part of a new five-member coalition aimed at offering a unified voice as the Federal Communi- cations Commission weighs changes to the market for business data services, or so-called "special access." The "Invest in Broadband for America" coalition also is comprised of Cincinnati Bell, Inc., Consolidated Communications, Inc. and Frontier Communications. Last month, AT&T joined the five companies in requesting that the FCC strike "irretrievably flawed" data underlying the agency's proposal to reform the market for special access. The telecom carriers maintained the data vastly understated offerings of cable Ethernet service. http://www.channelpartnersonline.com/news/2016/07/centurylink-fairpoint-unite-in-special-access-coa.aspx -- Bill Horne ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20160711151042.GA18799@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 11:10:42 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T's IP Transition Trials Lost 32% of "Legacy" Customers, yet the Overhyped Con Continues By Bruce Kushnick AT&T has been conducting "IP Transition Trials" in Carbon Hill, Alabama and West Delray Beach, Florida, since May 2014. The goal was supposed to be the migration of existing regular, copper-based phone customers to new Internet Protocol (IP)-based advanced technology and communications networks, and many believe this includes upgrading the customers' premises to fiber-to-the-home services. NOTE: On July 14th, 2016, the FCC is meeting to make new rules about the IP Transition and rules governing the "retirement of the copper" wires. Five basic points: 1. The "IP Transition" was a con job from the start - to push customers onto wireless. ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/atts-ip-transition-trials_b_10921456.html -- Bill Horne ------------------------------ Message-ID: <7eb8ob9vbncm0s700drfhdo4c5pr7pjnau@4ax.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 19:38:19 -0400 From: Pete Cresswell <PeteCress@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: What happens when fiber breaks? Per Bill Horne: >Fargo, North Dakota may seem insignificant, but wait until a tugboat >drags its anchor alone the East river in New York - or an oil trunk >catches fire in one of the tunnels Or some wacko figures out where the trans-Atlantic cables come to shore and blows it up.... -- Pete Cresswell ------------------------------ Message-ID: <XnsA642D30B81499507d764ee9285@46.165.242.75> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:44:27 +0000 (UTC) From: David LaRue <huey.dll@tampabay.rr.com> Subject: Re: Your Verizon Bill Is About to Go Up tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> wrote in news:wxv1jbttls5w.12hlj31qpfy2k$.dlg@40tude.net: > On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:54:51 -0400, Bill Horne wrote: > >> Verizon announced Wednesday that it will hike prices on its plans, > > It'll be interesting to see whether Verizon MVNO Page Plus Cellular > will be able to hold the line on its prices or will follow suit in > hiking them up. FWIW, I use Verizon Wireless on my dumb phone. I called to have my address changed. The sales-lady started an upsale speach and stopped. She wanted to convert me to a newer plan that had more minutes and costs $15 less per month. I'm sure there will be a down side but after reviewing the facts with her it seemed legit. ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Tue, 12 Jul 2016