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| Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 19:52:58 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon Faces Strike by 37,000 as Contract Talks Go Down to Wire
Message-ID: <mpjm1p$j44$2@dont-email.me>
by Sarah Mulholland
More than 37,000 Verizon Communications Inc. workers are ready to go
on strike Sunday as the second-largest U.S. telephone company
continues to negotiate with employee unions over benefits. Contracts
with the Communications Workers of America and the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers expire at midnight Saturday
night. The two sides have failed to reach an agreement after almost
seven weeks of negotiations, according to a Verizon statement on
Friday. A strike would affect landline workers in the northeast and
mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. and could delay service calls and
disrupt installations for new phone and Internet customers.
http://goo.gl/Kcl73i
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Bill Horne
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| Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 20:02:46 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: AT&T offers lower cost connnections if you let them snoop on you
Message-ID: <mpjmk6$lhb$1@dont-email.me>
AT&T's plan to watch your Web browsing - and what you can do about it
Want to opt out? It could cost up to $744 extra per year.
by Jon Brodkin
If you have AT&T's gigabit Internet service and wonder why it seems so
affordable, here's the reason - AT&T is boosting profits by rerouting all
your Web browsing to an in-house traffic scanning platform, analyzing
your Internet habits, then using the results to deliver personalized ads
to the websites you visit, e-mail to your inbox, and junk mail to your
front door.
In a few select areas including Austin, Texas, and Kansas City,
Missouri - places where AT&T competes against the $70-per-month Google
Fiber [offering] - Ma Bell offers its own $70-per-month "GigaPower"
fiber-to-the-home Internet access. But signing up for the deal also
opts customers in to AT&T's "Internet Preferences" program, which
gives the company permission to examine each customer's Web traffic in
exchange for a price that matches Google's.
http://goo.gl/ZkhFO3
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| Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 10:28:38 +1000
From: David Clayton <dc33box-usenet2@NOSPAM.yahoo.com.au>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: AT&T offers lower cost connnections if you let them snoop on you
Message-ID: <pan.2015.08.02.00.28.34.721439@NOSPAM.yahoo.com.au>
On Sat, 01 Aug 2015 20:02:46 -0400, Bill Horne wrote:
> AT&T's plan to watch your Web browsing - and what you can do about it
>
> Want to opt out? It could cost up to $744 extra per year.
>
> by Jon Brodkin
>
> If you have AT&T's gigabit Internet service and wonder why it seems so
> affordable, here's the reason - AT&T is boosting profits by rerouting all
> your Web browsing to an in-house traffic scanning platform, analyzing your
> Internet habits, then using the results to deliver personalized ads to the
> websites you visit, e-mail to your inbox, and junk mail to your front
> door.
Given that technology savvy people can effectively obscure their
"browsing habits" by using things like encrypted DNS services and
HTTPS, I wonder if this is just another "Come on in suckers" offering
that the masses will take up just for the convenience?
- -
Regards, David.
David Clayton
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a
measure of how many questions you have.
***** Moderator's Note *****
The fact that I pointed my browser somewhere is information in and of
itself: such "traffic intelligence" can be as useful as seeing what I
type. After all, a visit to www.islamicjihad.com tells a watcher
something about me, even with an encrypted connection.
But, assuming that they want to know every word I read, and leaving
aside the fact that their software could simply parrot my browser's
GET requests to see it anyway, what if AT&T makes in impossible to use
your workarounds? What if the company demands that all users give up
encrypted connections entirely?
Bill Horne
Moderator
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| Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 19:50:41 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon strike looms
Message-ID: <mpjltg$j44$1@dont-email.me>
Verizon strike possible as contract deadline looms; company expects
'minimal' impact
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Verizon workers in nine states could walk off the job
as soon as early Sunday if union negotiators don't reach an agreement
over benefits with the wireless carrier.
A contract covering 39,000 Verizon workers represented by two unions
expires at the end of Saturday. Last week, the Communications Workers of
America announced that 86 percent of Verizon workers covered by the
contract voted to strike in a recent poll, if a new agreement isn't reached.
http://goo.gl/GdHXkN
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Bill Horne
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| Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 17:52:26 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Why Consumers Should Tred Carefully with Samsung Galaxy's Price Cut
Message-ID: <D5E08038-ECE2-476C-A53E-515B4F997FE6@roscom.com>
Samsung is reducing the price of its Galaxy S6 mobile phone. That
doesn't necessarily mean that buyers should rush in.
http://goo.gl/TnDWmU
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| Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 19:56:29 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: AT&T responds to BBB complaint about Lumia 830
Message-ID: <mpjm8j$kd0$1@dont-email.me>
AT&T responds to BBB complaint, Lumia 830 likely to never get Lumia
Denim update
BY DANIEL RUBINO
The Lumia Denim update has come and gone for many Windows Phone
owners. Announced back at IFA in September 2014, the update continued
to roll out to devices through early spring. One phone, however,
missed the update, and it was the Lumia 830 for AT&T. It is ironic, if
only because Denim was co-announced with the Lumia 830 at IFA yet it
was the AT&T Lumia 1520 that managed to snag the update instead.
Fast forward to July 2015 and at this point it is a safe bet that the
AT&T Lumia 830 will not see Lumia Denim. A reader of the site, Noah M.,
filed a complaint against AT&T with the Better Business Bureau (BBB) to
express his frustration.
http://goo.gl/jScoSg
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Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
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