---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190502224837.GA5344@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 22:48:37 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CWA Bargaining Update CWA members from across the country demonstrated and distributed flyers outside of AT&T's annual shareholder meeting in Dallas, Texas, on Friday. The workers continue to put pressure on Congress to investigate AT&T and call the company's CEO Randall Stephenson to testify before the House Ways and Means Committee about why AT&T has not kept its promise to use its enormous tax cut benefits to create jobs and invest in American communities. https://cwa-union.org/news/bargaining-update-135 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190505182116.GA21902@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 5 May 2019 18:21:16 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Benefits of FirstNet touted at meeting By Mike Anich JOHNSTOWN - Potential benefits of the new, burgeoning nationwide wireless FirstNet system for Fulton County were touted this past week by county officials and AT&T representatives. The FirstNet system was discussed at the Fulton County Board of Supervisors' Public Safety Committee meeting Monday at the County Office Building. http://www.leaderherald.com/news/local-news/2019/05/benefits-of-firstnet-touted-at-meeting/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190505181011.GA21797@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 5 May 2019 18:10:11 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Selling Customers' Data The lawsuits come after a Motherboard investigation showed AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile sold phone location data that ended up with bounty hunters, and The New York Times covered an instance of Verizon selling data. By Joseph Cox On Thursday, lawyers filed lawsuits against four of the country's major telecommunications companies for their role in various location data scandals uncovered by Motherboard, Senator Ron Wyden, and The New York Times. Bloomberg Law was first to report the lawsuits. The news provides the first instance of individual telco customers pushing to be awarded damages after Motherboard revealed in January that AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint had all sold access to the real-time location of their customers' phones to a network of middlemen companies, before ending up in the hands of bounty hunters. Motherboard previously paid a source $300 to successfully geolocate a T-Mobile phone through this supply chain of data. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3k3dv3/verizon-tmobile-sprint-att-class-action-lawsuit-selling-phone-location-data -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Mon, 06 May 2019