---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180820152040.D39B02201@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 11:20:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Anonymous Contributor <anonymous@telecom-digest.org.invalid> Subject: My Take On Net Neutrality - Do You Agree? https://www.komando.com/happening-now/434301/my-take-on-net-neutrality-do-you-agree ***** Moderator's Note ***** PLEASE read the FAQ before making anonymous contributions! This one came from a TD reader who asked for anonymity, but then quoted the entire 2017 article from a site that features a blogger known as "Kim Komando," a.k.a. "America's Digital Goddess." I've never read "Kim Komando's" writing before, but IMHO this particular effort is a once-over-lightly take on a complicated and technical topic that is not amenable to sound-bite summaries. And yet, I'm going to publish the URL. If nothing else, such glib explanations of what "Net Neutrality" means or should mean are a place to start debating the issue. While I personnaly feel that the FCC's rules should not have been revoked, and I have contributed to an organization that is attempting to get the Congress to overrule the FCC on this issue, I also feel that growing pains of the Internet need more analysis and thought than "Kim Komando" provided. On one side of this political football field are the pipe providers such as the Baby Bells, Sprint, or Level 3, lusting after what their executives perceive as the "easy" money that flows through "their" infrastructure, while they hope that we forget that they were paid to construct and maintain it; on the other are content houses, VoIP providers, Skype, and many other near-real-time services that have externalized the cost of distribution onto their customers. None of the power players want a "Neutral" Internet. They only want an Internet where some animals are more "Neutral" than others. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180820162351.GA15299@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:23:51 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Pai: FCC's use of flawed broadband data not 'good enough' By Charlene Zhang WASHINGTON -- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said closing the digital divide is his top priority, but lawmakers at the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing Thursday worried that inaccurate maps of broadband Internet coverage will stymie the FCC's efforts. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., the top Democrat on the committee, said about 24 million Americans lack easy and affordable access to the Internet. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2018/08/16/Pai-FCCs-use-of-flawed-broadband-data-not-good-enough/1851534453810/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180820161605.GA15207@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:16:05 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon, Workers Ink New Deal, Move Forward From Massive Strike More than 34,000 Verizon workers will get higher wages and better retirement benefits. Talks with the company went well, union leaders said. By Eric Kiefer More than 34,000 Verizon workers in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions - including thousands in New Jersey - will get higher wages and better retirement benefits as part of a new, four-year contract, union leaders recently announced. And this time, it didn't take a gargantuan strike to get things done. https://patch.com/new-jersey/hoboken/verizon-workers-ink-new-deal-move-forward-massive-strike -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Tue, 21 Aug 2018