---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180513031937.GA2676@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 23:19:37 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T wins ethics award - and three hours later the company gets tied to Michael Cohen's money mess by Dave Lieber (with Marina Trahan Martinez) AT&T won an ethics award. I know! I look at that sentence, and even though The Watchdog witnessed this with my own eyes the other day, it still unnerves me. AT&T winning an ethics award is like Jerry Jones winning an award for Best General Manager. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2018/05/10/att-wins-ethics-award-andthree-hours-later-company-gets-tied-michael-cohens-money-mess -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <5af5f9dce868b_4dbc7140f80800653@ip-10-0-0-119.mail> Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 20:15:25 +0000 (UTC) From: Evan at FFTF <team@fightforthefuture.org> Subject: Are you kidding me? My jaw actually dropped when I read this: AT&T was just caught paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to President Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen, and the payments stop right after his FCC Chairman appointee Ajit Pai repealed net neutrality. *Are you kidding me?* This is stunning, transparent corruption. It's so bad AT&T isn't even really trying to hide it. Their top lobbyist just resigned over the scandal. ... Click here to take action! http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/_QA/ni0YAA/t.2hd/DBL-nG1YSFCLU9U8gcDDoQ/h0/yZH-2BImYNhf0NpOFB6eZZzllqtOv2C6V6JK-2FOhEUc1yJpmCql5LF4iYauvGssVHF7JkTo1bDZjll4rgn7mmoK2uZxFwQ48T-2B2pQ4LmoMZqN-2B7pfbnirvrYGPB25gwq6p7Un7FyARGBSG1Gazdws6yZNoFJ9Ipt7k4hc8mc1AbhfqTiez1xo3JglZTbQFqjVyQxpwoxanx0pab6XDl-2BF-2Fify9eLQRXGXyvf-2FFlt8PvUc-2BffkKNYNGvrdCsABasa5hUbqBUKR-2BIUOtSZyIZfjqcbw-3D-3D ------------------------------ Message-ID: <pd4bd4$nrm$1@reader1.panix.com> Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 15:04:04 +0000 (UTC) From: briang.remove-this@and-this-too.panix.com (Brian Gordon) Subject: Re: Yes, It's Bad. Robocalls, and Their Scams, Are Surging. In article <f9805db8-2c9a-4f11-8a74-470a3bf7cbef@googlegroups.com>, HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> wrote: >On Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 11:50:51 AM UTC-4, Barry Margolin wrote: > >> I've noticed the same thing. These days I mostly get robocalls on my >> cellphone. Most are in the same exchange, and many of the others are in >> the same area code. > >Would anyone know accurately what the current laws are regarding all >unsolicited phone calls? > If you were in a call center in Jamaca, Bangladesh, etc., how worried would you be about USA phone laws? Times have changed. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | Brian Gordon -->briang@panix.com<-- brian dot gordon at cox dot net | + bgordon@aol.com Bass: NSC Frank Thorne + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Message-ID: <barmar-04668B.10505111052018@reader.eternal-september.org> Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 10:50:55 -0400 From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> Subject: Re: Yes, It's Bad. Robocalls, and Their Scams, Are Surging. In article <f9805db8-2c9a-4f11-8a74-470a3bf7cbef@googlegroups.com>, HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> wrote: > On Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 11:50:51 AM UTC-4, Barry Margolin wrote: > > > I've noticed the same thing. These days I mostly get robocalls on my > > cellphone. Most are in the same exchange, and many of the others are in > > the same area code. > > Would anyone know accurately what the current laws are regarding all > unsolicited phone calls? > > It was my understanding that unsolicited calls of _any_ type were > prohibited to cell phones and nursing homes because of the cost and > disruption they cause. There may have been other protected recipients > as well. I know a number of people who have pay-as-you-go cell phones > and such calls cost them money*. That's what I have. So I rarely answer these calls. My understanding is similar to yours, but I also realize that the perpetrators are most likely offshore, so prosecuting them is close to impossible. There presumably has to be a domestic company that takes the money, but tracing things back to them is too much work for most victims of robocalls. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 13 May 2018