---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180707151008.GA7820@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2018 11:10:08 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: 'Overstated' Verizon Coverage Hurts Rural Carriers, Cos. Say By Bryan Koenig Law360 (July 6, 2018) -- A coalition of radio frequency engineering firms told the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday that Verizon has "grossly overstated" its nationwide 4G LTE coverage, hurting the mobile wireless carriers the engineering firms serve because the carriers can only get needed FCC funding to boost coverage in areas where coverage is low. The FCC's Mobility Fund II will provide as much as $4.53 billion over the next decade to subsidize mobile broadband deployment in areas lacking 4G LTE coverage. The subsidies were awarded at auction to bids that most efficiently provide coverage to underserved areas. https://www.law360.com/telecom/articles/1060616/-overstated-verizon-coverage-hurts-rural-carriers-cos-say -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180707152806.GA7901@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2018 11:28:06 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: How to deal with cell phone dead zones in your house By Whitson Gordon You've just moved into a lovely new house complete with everything you ever wanted - except the ability to call anyone. If you don't seem to get a cell signal inside your home or office, here's how to keep making calls and texts. https://www.popsci.com/no-cell-phone-service -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180707152213.GA7860@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2018 11:22:13 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: When your computer starts watching you, it's time to demand more privacy (The original headline read "When your TV starts watching you ..." [emphasis added]) Editorial New assaults on privacy pop up every day. For example, Verizon-owned Oath, the owner of AOL and Yahoo!, is telling users who wade through the legalese that it is giving itself permission to snoop through and store their emails, instant messages, posts, photos and message attachments and share that data, including personal banking information. If there's a data breach at Oath, hackers could wind up with a gold mine. https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/online-privacy-internet-security-yahoo-aol-verizon/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - OK, leaving aside the question of how they're going to monitor your banking information, this strikes me as a perfect illustration of the reason we all need to use end-to-end encryption for all our emails. Of course, this touches on the fact that Network Neutrality is a lost cause: it was never going to be about "fast lanes" for video service "X" or audio service "Y," but rather about very, very slow lanes (or none at all) for anything that can't be scanned and used to tell us what to think and who to vote for. -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 08 Jul 2018