---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190621015224.GA1012@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 01:52:24 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: New York Assembly Passes Call Center Jobs Act! (This is from the CWA newsletter) After years of hard work, the New York Call Center Jobs Act, sponsored by Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal, has passed in the New York Assembly by a count of 93-19, and will head to the Governor to be signed! CWA members spent months of campaigning to help pro-worker Democrats take over the State Senate last year and months more of lobbying, calling, and writing postcards to legislators, rallying, and holding press conferences to finally get the legislation over the finish line. The bill contains strong protections for call center jobs in New York. It ends tax breaks for companies that ship at least 30% of their workforce out of state and requires state agencies to ensure that all business-related call center work is performed by companies located in New York. -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190621162348.GA28844@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 16:23:48 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CenturyLink and Level 3 FCC Filing CenturyLink and Level 3, WC Docket 16-403 Docket Number: WC Docket 16-403 CenturyLink, Inc. (CenturyLink) and Level 3 Communications, Inc. (Level 3) have filed applications seeking the Commission's approval to transfer control of various licenses and authorizations held by Level 3's operating subsidiaries to CenturyLink. Level 3 focuses on providing its services to businesses, primarily large enterprise customers. It provides primarily fiber-based communications services such as Internet backbone, broadband transport, collocation, voice, and IP-based services throughout the United States and internationally in South America, Asia, and Europe. Level 3's fiber assets include more than 209,000 owned or controlled route miles of fiber. CenturyLink provides consumer and enterprise series as an incumbent local exchange carrier in portions of 37 states and provides enterprise series as a competitive local exchange carrier throughout the country. CenturyLink provides communications services including voice, wholesale local network access, high-speed Internet access, data transmission, and transport services through its copper and fiber networks. CenturyLink provides high-speed Internet access to over six million customers and has approximately 11.7 million access lines. https://www.fcc.gov/transaction/centurylink-level3 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190621161749.GA28776@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 16:17:49 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CenturyLink faces more scrutiny from Minnesota regulators after 911 outage State utility regulators have voted to increase reporting requirements. By Mike Hughlett CenturyLink faces beefed-up reporting requirements for its Minnesota 911 contract after a state report found the company did not adequately respond to a major outage last August, which led to almost 700 dropped emergency calls. "There was a gigantic failure by CenturyLink and its vendor," Katie Sieben, chairwoman of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC), said at a commission meeting Thursday. http://www.startribune.com/centurylink-faces-more-scrutiny-from-minnesota-regulators-after-911-outage/511250242/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <7018F539-AE35-4A47-95FA-FCA83256D304@roscom.com> Date: 16 Jun 2019 10:50:29 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: "Pretext Theory" as Applied to Unsolicited TCPA Fax Advertisement Claims The Situation: The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently considered a "pretext" theory as applied to unsolicited fax advertisement claims under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA"). The Result: The court held the plaintiff did not state a claim for a TCPA junk fax violation even though the plaintiff claimed that the fax was a "pretext" to providing other advertising when the recipient visited the website identified in the fax. https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/pretext-theory-as-applied-to-65774/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <C3D24B19-CE8B-41B8-A81E-2B5B0C7F71DA@roscom.com> Date: 18 Jun 2019 10:39:12 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Dialing Around: How Rotary Phones Shaped the Distribution of US Area Codes These days, our phones tend to keep track of these things for us, but back when most people memorized numbers, they didn't always make sense. The first digits of zip codes and social security numbers assigned in the United States ascend from east to west, starting low around the original American colonies and going up from there. Interstate numbering also follows east/west as well as north/south patterns. So how did the country wind up with such an odd layout of area codes? For context, we need to revisit the earlier days of the phone network. https://99percentinvisible.org/article/dialing-around-how-rotary-phones-shaped-the-distribution-of-us-area-codes/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 22 Jun 2019