The Telecom Digest
Friday, September 2, 2022

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Volume 41 Table of Contents Issue 185
The T-Mobile / Sprint merger hasn't created jobs - it's cut thousands
CWA Exposes Frontier Communications’ Dangerous Use of Subcontractors in New Half-Million Dollar Ad Campaign
Monthly TCPA Digest - August 2022
Message-ID: <20220902003313.GA223097@telecomdigest.us> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 00:33:13 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malassimQRMilation@gmail.com> Subject: [telecom] The T-Mobile / Sprint merger hasn't created jobs - it's cut thousands By the end of 2021, T-Mobile was already down 5,000 jobs, and now it's laying off more workers By Jasmine Hicks The Wall Street Journal reports T-Mobile's engineering and network operations teams are experiencing waves of layoffs, which have included managers and executives, on top of thousands of jobs eliminated by restructuring after the company merged with Sprint in 2020. T-Mobile execs promised then that the merger was “all about creating new, high-quality, high-paying jobs, and the new T-Mobile will be jobs-positive from Day One and every day thereafter.” https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/1/23333124/t-mobile-sprint-layoffs-5g-merger-jobs-promise
Message-ID: <97d718e6-a152-af5f-2992-c39d8ff2f1ac@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 18:01:37 -0400 From: Bill Horne <malassimQRMilation@gmail.com> Subject: [telecom] CWA Exposes Frontier Communications' Dangerous Use of Subcontractors in New Half-Million Dollar Ad Campaign Thursday, August 25, 2022 Just over a year after emerging from bankruptcy, Frontier is increasingly outsourcing good union jobs to unregulated subcontracting companies, putting public safety at risk. Communications Workers of America members across California win agreement from Frontier after striking over the issue. Nationwide- The Communications Workers of America (CWA) has launched a half-million dollar advertising campaign exposing Frontier Communications' increasing and dangerous use of subcontracting companies to perform critical broadband infrastructure work. Frontier management's aggressive attempt to displace its union workers and squeeze out good union jobs following the company's emergence from bankruptcy in April 2021 is resulting in damage to communities amid botched rollouts. View the ads: ... https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/cwa-exposes-frontier-communications-dangerous-use-of-subcontractors-in-new-half *************************** Moderator's Note *************************** The three ads shown on the CWA site are all the same message, with the same actors, each aimed at the voters of different states. The only difference is that the announcer names the different states (Connecticutt, Teaxa, and California) but the remaining verbiage is the same, and the graphics show outlines of the different states, with arrows pointing inward and lots of stick people shown outside the states' boarders. The ad for Texas is problematic, however: the announcer says "From other states," but the graphic shows an arrow which starts in Mexico and crosses the border into Texas, and there's an arrow from the Gulf of Mexico, where the graphic includes lots of boat outlines as well, thus implying that immigrant labor is being brought in to the Lone Star State by both land and sea to compete with all the Red Blooded 'Muricans whom won't be employed as a result. I like the CWA, but this one fails the smell test.
Message-ID: <PH0PR19MB49076FF60169567F6829061EE57B9@PH0PR19MB4907.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 16:29:14 -0400 From: Bill Horne <malassimQRMilation@gmail.com> Subject: [telecom] Monthly TCPA Digest - August 2022 by Russell H. Fox, Jonathan P. Garvin, Joshua Briones, and Esteban Morales We are pleased to present our latest Monthly TCPA Digest, providing insights and news related to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). In this issue's Regulatory Update, we discuss a Public Notice issued by the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau (WCB) seeking comment on two recurring obligations relating to the FCC's caller ID authentication rules, which were both imposed by the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act (TRACED Act). The WCB seeks comment on extensions for the implementation of STIR/SHAKEN call authentication technology that it granted in 2020 and the efficacy of STIR/SHAKEN at eliminating unlawful calls. We also cover a Memorandum of Understanding between the FCC and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that calls for the two agencies to provide mutual assistance in their robocall enforcement activities. https://tinyurl.com/2kpzzezw -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)
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