---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180121193355.GA781@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 14:33:55 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T reaches final deal with wireless workers after yearlong labor standoff Communications Workers of America (CWA) members have approved a four-year contract with AT&T by an overwhelming majority after a difficult monthslong labor standoff. The deal rolls back offshoring and outsourcing and sets a new standard for wireless retail and call center jobs in America. The agreement offers a guaranteed 80% increase in the portion of customer service calls handled exclusively by wireless workers in the U.S. who are CWA members, along with first-ever job security language that guarantees a job for workers whose store or call center is closed or whose job title is eliminated. https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/at-t-reaches-final-deal-wireless-workers-after-year-long-labor-standoff -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180121192454.GA751@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 14:24:54 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Adtran tumbles 11.7% as CenturyLink pause spurs target cuts By Jason Aycock Adtran has slipped 11.7%, shaving $100M in market cap, after price target cuts at Goldman Sachs and Northland after CenturyLink decided to temporarily pause an upgrade to its last-mile copper network. Shares are currently at $16.65. Goldman (Neutral on the stock) has trimmed its target to $16 from $17; it points to low visibility on the CenturyLink issue but says the business could return "potentially as early as 1Q18." https://seekingalpha.com/news/3323671-adtran-tumbles-11_7-percent-centurylink-pause-spurs-target-cuts -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <40B70DD0-FD09-4B66-91BA-F34F7667FE78@roscom.com> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 12:24:20 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Why Cloudflare Let an Extremist Stronghold Burn Why Cloudflare Let an Extremist Stronghold Burn By Steven Johnson IN THE FALL of 2016, Keegan Hankes, an analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center, paid a visit to the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer. This was not unusual; part of Hankes' job at the civil rights organization was to track white supremacists online, which meant reading their sites. But as Hankes loaded the page on his computer at SPLC's headquarters in Montgomery, Alabama, something caught his eye: a pop-up window that announced "Checking your browser before accessing ... Please allow up to 5 seconds." In fine print, there was the cryptic phrase "DDoS protection by Cloudflare." Hankes, who had worked at SPLC for three years, had no idea what Cloudflare was. But soon he noticed the pop-up appearing on other hate sites and started to poke around. There's a good chance that, like Hankes, you haven't heard of Cloudflare, but it's likely you've viewed something online that has passed through its system. Cloudflare is part of the backend of the internet. Nearly 10 percent of all requests for web pages go through its servers, which are housed in 118 cities around the world. These servers speed along the delivery of content, making it possible for clients' web pages to load more quickly than they otherwise would. But Cloudflare's main role is protection: Its technology acts as an invisible shield against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks - hacker campaigns that disable a website by overwhelming it with fake traffic. The company has more than 7 million customers, from individual bloggers who pay nothing for basic security services to Fortune 50 companies that pay up to a million dollars a year for guaranteed 24-hour support. https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-cloudflare/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Mon, 22 Jan 2018