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The Telecom Digest for August 25, 2013
Volume 32 : Issue 181 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
Re: MetroPCS 4G Service Issues (Joseph Singer)
Re: MetroPCS 4G Service Issues (unknown)
Re: MetroPCS 4G Service Issues (unknown)
How Edward Snowden led journalist and film-maker to reveal NSA secrets (Monty Solomon)

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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 14:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joseph Singer <joeofseattle@yahoo.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: MetroPCS 4G Service Issues 
Message-ID: <1377121339.43457.YahooMailNeo@web121406.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

Tue, 20 Aug 2013 19:05:20 -0400

It was recently written:

> This a 2 story residential colonial with a basement with cinder
> block walls so I don't think there is any rebar or screening in the
> walls. If I'm in the basement and go to "Network Selection", the
> only thing I see on the "Network List" is AT&T. If I go to the
> second floor, I can see both AT&T and T-Mobile on the "Network List"
> with no problem. Even though I am retired AT&T, I still prefer
> T-Mobile but only if it works in the basement.

Unfortunately T-Mobile's spectrum only uses 1700 and 1900 Mhz spectrum
for their network.  The 1.7 and 1.9 Ghz range does not do as well as
lower frequencies such as 700 and 850 which AT&T possesses for
building penetration as well as the area it covers.  AT&T inherited
the 850 "cellular" spectrum the ancient days of analog cellular when
only two entities were awarded cellular licenses in an area the "A"
and "B" carriers.  T-Mobile never has had any of the lower spectrum
frequencies whereas AT&T has the legacy cellular spectrum and have
also acquired some 700 Mhz spectrum.




Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:11:30 -0400
From: unknown <arnie.goetchius.remove-this@and-this-too.att.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: MetroPCS 4G Service Issues 
Message-ID: <kv3adt$691$1@telecom-digest.org>

Rich Greenberg wrote:
> In article <kuooj5$tuh$15dr201308171953@telecomdigest.net>,
> unknown  <arnie.goetchius.remove-this@and-this-too.att.net> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> I have a pre-paid T-Mobile that does not work in my basement office near
>> exit 114 of the Garden State Parkway. However, I do get AT&T in the
>> basement so I'm probably going to switch my unlocked T-Mobile over to
>> AT&T. My cost with either one is about $100 per year so price is not an
>> issue but dependable service is.
> 
> If you have DSL or cable or similar internet acvailable, talk to
> T-Mobile about getting a Femtocell (AT&T's name).  Its a little box that
> acts as a cell site.
> 
Femtocell requires a router and internet connection which I have plus
about $200. However, when I lose power, I lose the router and the
internet. A cell repeater would also work but has the same problem when
I lose power. I was without power during Sandy for 11 days and T-Mobile
was worthless. For a period of time, T-Mobile was using the AT&T network
and it worked fine. I use about $100 a year on prepaid so the $200 for a
femtocell would buy me 2 years on AT&T prepaid.




Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:40:12 -0400
From: unknown <arnie.goetchius.remove-this@and-this-too.att.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: MetroPCS 4G Service Issues 
Message-ID: <kvaum3$c35$1brtff@telecom-digest.net>

Bruce Bergman wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 19:00:41 +0000 (UTC) in article <kutq0p$p65$
> 1@reader1.panix.com>, richgr@panix.com (Rich Greenberg) wrote:
> 
>> In article <kuooj5$tuh$15dr201308171953@telecomdigest.net>,
>> unknown  <arnie.goetchius.remove-this@and-this-too.att.net> wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> I have a pre-paid T-Mobile that does not work in my basement office near
>>> exit 114 of the Garden State Parkway. However, I do get AT&T in the
>>> basement so I'm probably going to switch my unlocked T-Mobile over to
>>> AT&T. My cost with either one is about $100 per year so price is not an
>>> issue but dependable service is.
>>
>> If you have DSL or cable or similar internet available, talk to
>> T-Mobile about getting a Femtocell (AT&T's name).  Its a little box that
>> acts as a cell site.
> 
> Another solution is a Home Cordless Phone system that has a "Connect to
> Cell" (Bluetooth) feature - Uniden, AT&T and Panasonic et al have them.
>  Then you leave the Cellphone in it's charger on the 2nd Floor next to the
> Cordless base station, and put a cordless charge cradle and a handset in
> the basement office.

Great idea. I'll look into that




Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 04:30:59 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: How Edward Snowden led journalist and film-maker to reveal NSA  secrets
Message-ID: <p06240818ce38d9548b8b@[10.0.1.3]>

How Edward Snowden led journalist and film-maker to reveal NSA secrets

Whistleblower drew Glenn Greenwald and film-maker Laura Poitras 
together to expose surveillance programmes

Roy Greenslade
The Guardian
19 August 2013

Journalists would do well to read a 7,700-word article by Peter Maass 
in the New York Times magazine headlined How Laura Poitras helped 
Snowden spill his secrets.

It underlines just why the former NSA computer specialist Edward 
Snowden is so deserving of the status of whistleblower. He has 
revealed that what we journalists might have suspected about 
government surveillance to be true was indeed so.

The article tells how Snowden first tried to win the attention of 
Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald by anonymously emailing him to 
say he had sensitive documents he wanted to share.

He followed that up with a step-by-step guide on how to encrypt 
communications, and then sent a link to an encryption video. 
Greenwald ignored the approaches.

In frustration, Snowden contacted documentary filmmaker Laura 
Poitras. And it was she who eventually got in touch with Greenwald, 
drawing the three of them together.

...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/19/edward-snowden-nsa-secrets-glenn-greenwald-laura-poitras






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