---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190609183716.GA17067@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 18:37:16 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CenturyLink weaknesses faulted in Minnesota 911 outage By Mike Hughlett After a major outage in August that led to almost 700 dropped 911 calls in Minnesota, regulators have found weaknesses in CenturyLink's administration of the state's emergency call system. While the outage was caused by human error at a CenturyLink vendor, state safety officials and the public were not notified in a timely manner that the system had partly failed, according to a report by the Minnesota departments of Commerce and Public Safety. http://www.startribune.com/centurylink-weaknesses-faulted-in-911-outage/510984822/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190609182000.GA16863@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 18:20:00 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T employees help Girl Scouts earn their Netiquette Badge LIMA - AT&T employees helped Girl Scouts in Lima, Centerville and West Chester Ohio earn their netiquette badge on Saturday. The scouts learned the best practices for online etiquette and social media to help them make positive choices in the digital world. https://www.limaohio.com/news/359458/att-employees-help-girl-scouts-earn-their-netiquette-badge -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ***** Moderator's Note ***** I feel guilty, but somehow I had to. Honest. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190609181643.GA16654@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 18:16:43 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T Reportedly is Considering Selling DIRECTV's Sattelite Service to DISH by Luke Bouma For years we have talked about the possibility that DISH and DIRECTV would follow in the footsteps of Sirius and XM radio with a merger. Now, accounting to Reuters, AT&T is considering selling off or merging the DIRECTV satellite service with DISH. AT&T has already made it clear they plan to no longer support the satellite service at some far-off distant time. Recently AT&T announced that they did not plan to launch any new satellites for DIRECTV. This means when the current satellites break down, they won't be replaced. (Something that won't happen for many years.) AT&T says they plan to slowly move all of their customers over to a new streaming service that is launching later this year. https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/att-reportedly-is-considering-selling-directvs-satellite-service-to-dish/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <C35E195D-2300-4679-A8A6-56A26B41A46C@roscom.com> Date: 8 Jun 2019 19:18:18 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: A test of 911 calls reveals a reason for missed connections By Peter DeMarco If an Uber driver can precisely find you in a crowded downtown using the electronic signal from your cellphone, shouldn't a 911 operator be able to find you just as quickly in an emergency? Yet, the 911 system failed my wife, Laura Levis, in 2016 when she collapsed from an asthma attack on a bench outside the emergency room of CHA Somerville Hospital. Although she told operators her location, the 911 system erroneously put her phone hundreds of feet away. By the time firefighters finally found her 10 minutes later, as I wrote last fall, she had stopped breathing and never regained consciousness. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/06/08/test-calls-reveals-reason-for-missed-connections/P7DPLnH9qZIK9ck3qLvcvJ/story.html ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Mon, 10 Jun 2019