---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20161107050744.GA27404@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 00:07:44 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T May Not Rejoice at $35-a-Month Plan, Though Tightwads Can AT&T's $35-a-month internet TV service could help it win over regulators and customers, but it poses a serious threat to margins. http://www.wsj.com/articles/at-t-may-not-rejoice-at-35-a-month-plan-though-tightwads-can-1478455104 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <3C511A91-8EF4-41E4-8ECC-833217036D2A@roscom.com> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 22:05:40 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Samsung's culture needs to change if it wants to survive By Steve Kovach Samsung is a company that hates to fail. That may seem obvious (who actually revels in failure?), but most companies don't react to setbacks the way Samsung does. http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-reaction-to-note-7-recall-2016-11 ------------------------------ Message-ID: <nvlscj$gi3$1@dont-email.me> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 20:10:20 -0400 From: Arnie Goetchius <arnie.goetchius@invalid.domain> Subject: Re: A look inside a Verizon switch location Bill Horne wrote: > Guilty-pleasure department - > I don't know why this TV report delights me, but it does: a local > ingenue informs us that the building even has batteries to keep > things going if the power fails. One of my first jobs in 1954 at the AT&T Long Lines Microwave Tower located in the Lincoln LaVeque building in Columbus, OH was to check the water level of the batteries and fill them up as necessary. ***** Moderator's Note ***** Youth-is-wasted-on-the-young department ... Arnie, I was mocking the story: the young lady's breathless boast that she was in an "undisclosed location" reminded me of the psyops films that TV stations used to run on weekends during my youth. BTW, I need your real email address for my "send_private_email_to" list. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20161107043013.GA27380@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 23:30:13 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon, Bait and Switch Is NOT Nice EconMatters is a financial and investing site, but we do occasionally write about improper practices we observed or experienced in Corporate America, the job market, or in a regular consumer business like Favor Delivery, Comcast Cable, or Fandango. In doing so, we also received a few reader comments to stop 'whining' and just 'suck it up'. Sorry to disappoint but EconMatters still believes 'Doing the Right Thing' is important regardless of the actual monetary amount involved. If we simply 'suck it up', the United States would still be part of Britain. Today, I'm going to talk about a personal saga of 'Bait and Switch' by Verizon http://www.nasdaq.com/article/verizon-bait-and-switch-is-not-nice-cm704544 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 10 Nov 2016