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| Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:25:59 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon FiOS Sale To Foreign Buyer Has Hurdles
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Verizon Communications' potential sale of its wireline phone business,
including FiOS TV and Internet services, to a foreign buyer would be
complicated by its presence in the nation's capital, as well as by
pension liabilities, says Barclays in a report.
Amir Rozwadowski, the Barclays analyst, discusses a wireline divestiture
as part of a broad analysis of Verizon's strategic plans. Citigroup last
week speculated that French telecom firm Altice could buy Verizon's
local, residential wireline business, including its FiOS TV and Internet
business, as IBD reported.
http://goo.gl/IJ7WmH
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| Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:35:16 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Internet nightmare: AT&T sells DSL to your neighbors, but not to you
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AT&T's empty merger promise leaves residents without fast or reliable
Internet.
by Jon Brodkin
Mark Lewis and his wife bought a house in Winterville, Georgia, in
August 2012. They figured getting Internet service would be as simple as
calling up AT&T, because the prior owners had AT&T DSL (Digital
Subscriber Line). The neighbors also have AT&T DSL service providing
about 3Mbps.
"The previous owners had left their DSL modem and everything in the
house," Lewis told Ars. But when he called AT&T, the company said they
were "at maximum capacity, but if someone else in your neighborhood
terminates their service that should open up something for you."
http://goo.gl/fIAqrY
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| Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:40:28 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Seattle councilmember calls for municipal broadband
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Seattle councilmember calls for "mass citywide movement" against Comcast
and CenturyLink in support of municipal broadband
BY TAYLOR SOPER
Seattle councilmember Kshama Sawant wants a municipal broadband network
in the Emerald City, and she's calling on the city's residents to join
forces to make it happen.
Sawant, a former software engineer who was elected to the Seattle City
Council as a socialist candidate in January 2014, penned a blog post
today advocating a city-owned network that would make Internet a public
utility.
"The purpose of a public internet utility is to provide high-speed,
affordable and equitable internet coverage to all Seattle neighborhoods,
residents, and businesses," she wrote. "Municipal broadband can be a
powerful lever against the digital divide that condemns people to the
isolation and reduced economic opportunities experienced by many of our
low-income, disabled, and people of color community members."
http://goo.gl/zxA8AV
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| Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:21:14 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon Is 'Killing the Copper' and Is Now Denying It
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by Bruce Kushnick for The Huffington Post
"Cut the copper off," said Lowell McAdam, Chairman and CEO of Verizon
Communications, speaking at the Guggenheim Securities Symposium, June
21, 2012:
And then in other areas that are more rural and more sparsely
populated, we have got LTE [Verizon Wireless] built that will
handle all of those services, and so we are going to cut the copper
off there. We are going to do it over wireless. So I am going to be
really shrinking the amount of copper we have out there, and then I
can focus the investment on that to improve the performance of it.
The next two headlines say it all: The Communications Workers of America
(CWA), the largest telecommunications union, claims that Verizon isn't
fixing the land lines or upgrading the networks and has filed in
multiple states to get more documentation and investigations going about
these issues.
http://goo.gl/SUY9eE
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| Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 11:54:12 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Frontier To Subscriber: You Were NOT In Florida
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By Kevin Hunt - The Hartford Courant
Jim Weber and his significant other spent the past winter in Florida, as
they do every year, but Frontier Communications apparently didn't
believe it.
Weber had signed up for Frontier's Stay Connected seasonal service,
$9.99 a month for customers who spend the winter elsewhere but wish to
maintain their existing service. Weber called Frontier a week before
returning from Florida, as instructed, to resume normal service. Yet a
$230.56 cable bill awaited in Unionville, not the anticipated $68.38
seasonal rate.
Weber, 76, says he called Frontier half a dozen times before being
promised a credit. Then, a couple days later, Frontier told him the
credit was denied because the company found evidence that he had used
the company's Internet service. Was he really in Florida or was he
sitting at home ordering flying-saucer sleds and winter chai from Amazon
while collecting a reduced-rate bundle from Frontier?
http://goo.gl/J439Ed
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