---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190418223409.GA3170@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 22:34:09 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T Drops Its T-Mobile Merger Bid In $4b Fail Faced with the prospect of a long war with U.S regulators it seemed destined to lose, AT&T announced on Monday it would give up on its $39-billion attempt to purchase T-Mobile, even though the decision will cost the nation's number-two carrier at least $4 billion to walk away from the deal. The proposed merger would have brought together the second- and fourth-largest telecommunications carriers in the United States, ultimately surpassing Verizon Wireless to be the largest telecom in the country. As recently as 11 days ago AT&T said it would not back down (though Chief Financial Officer John Stephens did seem to betray a bit of uncertainty). Instead, AT&T is out $4 billion with nothing to show for a proposed merger that drew instant fire from consumer groups and spectrum geeks. https://www.wired.com/2011/12/att-tmobile-merger-ends/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190418222615.GA3029@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 22:26:15 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T ran away with billions of dollars AT&T Midwest, AT&T Legacy T and AT&T Southeast As many Americans with stagnant paychecks found that they were receiving smaller refunds on Tax Day and wondered if they would even have a job a year from now, massive corporations like AT&T ran away with billions of dollars in tax cuts, cut jobs, failed to provide promised wage increases, and continued to send jobs overseas. Over the weekend, AT&T Midwest and Legacy T workers reached the one-year anniversary of their contract expiring and the company continues to stonewall workers at the bargaining table, while CWA members at AT&T Southeast are gearing up for the start of their own negotiations with the company this year. To put pressure on AT&T, CWAers across the country rallied to draw attention to our contract fight and to push Congress to hold corporations accountable for their broken tax cut promises. https://cwa-union.org/news/bargaining-update-133 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190418155738.GA1631@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 15:57:38 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Virtual Cupids Hit With $3 Million CAN SPAM Judgment By Terri J. Seligman You don't hear about a lot of CAN SPAM cases - probably because there's no private right of action for consumers, so the statute doesn't provide much of interest to the consumer class action bar. But a case like this shows that the statute has teeth and, with the right set of facts, can be used effectively against companies who send emails for purposes that would make cupid blush. http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=799330&email_access=on -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190418151227.GA1311@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 15:12:27 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Canada: Court Orders Release Of Consumer Complaints About Bell's Marketing Practices By Michael Binetti The Federal Court of Canada has ordered the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS) to release consumer complaints about Bell's alleged deceptive marketing practices to the Competition Bureau. The CCTS accepts and resolves complaints from Canadian telecom consumers about all aspects of their home phone, long distance, internet and wireless services. http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=800274&email_access=on -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 20 Apr 2019