---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <FA5CA7B5-3D0C-40D2-88B7-2C63607C9E20@roscom.com> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 15:41:54 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Why you may be able to finally ditch that old unlimited plan Why you may be able to finally ditch that old unlimited plan Q. Do I still need my unlimited-data plan? I've been holding onto it for years. A. Things have changed since last year, when I contemplated this question and suggested that most people would be fine spending less on increasingly-generous limited-data plans. Sprint and T-Mobile have renewed their unlimited-data offerings. The latter has begun suggesting that unlimited (but with constraints on the quality of streaming video and your ability to share your bandwidth over WiFi with a laptop or tablet) will become its only offering at some point. AT&T, meanwhile, has resumed selling unlimited data but reserves this new $100 plan for customers who also subscribe to its DirecTV or U-verse TV services. Verizon has yet to reconsider; chief financial officer Fran Shammo recently said at an investor conference that "people don't need unlimited plans." http://www.usatoday.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20161003023852.GA23634@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 22:38:52 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Christie has final say on bill offering unemployment to striking workers By Samantha Marcus TRENTON - With an Assembly vote Thursday, the Legislature sent Gov. Chris Christie a bill allowing striking workers to collect unemployment benefits. The legislation sprang up during a six-week Verizon worker strike that began in April. About 40,000 East Coast Verizon workers, including 4,600 in New Jersey, walked off the job in protest of the telecommunications giant's contract demands. It garnered Senate approval in August as 1,000 Taj Mahal casino and hotel employees entered their second month striking in a dispute over benefits. http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/10/bill_offering_unemployment_to_striking_workers_hea.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20161003022720.GA23572@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 22:27:20 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: The iPhone 7 Problems And Issues Users Are Facing The iPhone 7 Problems And Issues Users Are Facing By Christopher Morris The iPhone 7 has already generated a huge amount of headlines in its short lifetime, and mostly the response to the iconic smartphone has been positive. But there are always teething troubles with such a complicated product as the iPhone, and the release of the iPhone 7 has certainly proved no exception to this rule. Numerous problems have been reported by iPhone users, with the issues ranging from minor quibbles to the seriously problematical. http://www.valuewalk.com/2016/10/iphone-7-problems-issues/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20161003030436.GA23965@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 23:04:36 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T to end targeted ads program AT&T to end targeted ads program, give all users lowest available price Controversial traffic scanning program, Internet Preferences, meets its demise. JON BRODKIN AT&T is getting rid of Internet Preferences, the controversial program that analyzes home Internet customers' Web browsing habits in order to serve up targeted ads. "To simplify our offering for our customers, we plan to end the optional Internet Preferences advertising program related to our fastest Internet speed tiers," an AT&T spokesperson confirmed to Ars today. "As a result, all customers on these tiers will receive the best rate we have available for their speed tier in their area. We'll begin communicating this update to customers early next week." Data collection and targeted ads will be shut off, AT&T also confirmed. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/att-to-end-targeted-ads-program-give-all-users-lowest-available-price/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Mon, 03 Oct 2016