---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180817113232.GA30595@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 07:32:33 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Human error blamed for Minnesota-wide 911 outage ST. PAUL - Officials in Minnesota say human error was to blame for a statewide 911 outage earlier this month. Minnesota's Emergency Communications Networks said Wednesday it has concluded its investigation into the Aug. 1 outage. Similar disruptions were reported in North Dakota and North Carolina. https://www.postbulletin.com/news/state/around-the-state-passengers-help-deliver-baby-born-on-bus/article_ceffeff6-a0f6-11e8-b873-17f89e66e406.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180817115155.GA30678@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 07:51:55 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Fight for the Future Statement on FCC Chairman's Senate Testimony Fight for the Future Statement on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Senate committee Testimony in Response to the Agency's Fake DDoS Attack WASHINGTON - This morning FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and his fellow Commissioners appeared before the Senate Oversight Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on the heels of revelations that the FCC lied to Congress about a supposed "cyber attack," which was alleged to have happened just as millions of John Oliver viewers were attempting to file pro-net neutrality comments with agency. A recently released internal FCC report sheds light on internal agency system failures that caused the website to crash, not a cyberattack. https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/08/16/fight-future-statement-fcc-chairman-ajit-pais-senate-committee-testimony -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180817113823.GA30646@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 07:38:23 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Cryptocurrency Owner Sues AT&T Over $24 Million Digital Heist By Daniel R. Stoller A cryptocurrency investor has sued AT&T Inc., alleging the wireless phone service provider's online security measures failed to protect him from hackers who stole $24 million worth of his investment. Cryptocurrency theft victims may have found a new potential avenue to recover lost digital assets, such as Bitcoin. https://biglawbusiness.com/cryptocurrency-owner-sues-att-over-24-million-digital-heist/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <421c1f56-cf22-48a3-8093-c1f59c26b5db@googlegroups.com> Date: 16 Aug 2018 20:39:31 -0700 From: "Bill Horne" <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: ISPs say they can't expand broadband unless gov't gives them more money Industry asks for handouts, arguing that broadband is essential - like a utility. By Jon Brodkin Broadband providers have spent years lobbying against utility-style regulations that protect consumers from high prices and bad service. But now, broadband lobby groups are arguing that Internet service is similar to utilities such as electricity, gas distribution, roads, and water and sewer networks. In the providers' view, the essential nature of broadband doesn't require more regulation to protect consumers. Instead, they argue that broadband's utility-like status is reason for the government to give ISPs more money. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/isps-want-to-be-utilities-but-only-to-get-more-money-from-the-government/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to mail me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 18 Aug 2018