---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190726022400.GA8072@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 02:24:00 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Mt. Charleston NV could lose landlines, no cell service to call 911 By Christopher Redfearn ME. CHARLESTON (FOX5) -- People living on Mt. Charleston said they're almost solely dependent on landlines for communication - including if there's an emergency. "In the winter time it gets really bad up here. This winter we got 20 feet of snow, so communications is really important," said Mt. Charelston resident, Jimmy Alderson. "During the summer time we're in a fire zone, so communications are really important for that as well and we also have a lot of hikers that come up and get lost so and so communication for that is important as well." https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/mt-charleston-could-lose-landlines-no-cell-service-to-call/article_80786fe6-ae8f-11e9-8917-dbec369edd95.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190726022744.GA8096@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 02:27:44 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Frontier often under fire for its services By Fred Pace HUNTINGTON - In West Virginia, Frontier Communications has been routinely under fire for its internet service and its landline phone service, with dozens of formal complaints being lodged against the company just in recent weeks. Currently, the company is being sued by at least 150 disgruntled internet customers, it has been ordered to conduct an audit of its operations by the West Virginia Public Service Commission and the company has been on the radar of both state and federal officials over alleged poor service. Many actions date back several years. https://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/frontier-often-under-fire-for-its-services/article_25eb2c19-0712-5bea-bae1-c6d3f3051f01.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190726023136.GA8123@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 02:31:36 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: FCC's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, Better Broadband Mapping - Two More Reverse Auctions In a draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) released on July 11, 2019 (scheduled to be adopted at the FCC's August 1, 2019 Open Meeting), the FCC proposes to make $20.4 billion available under the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) through two multi-round, descending clock auctions, largely following the bidding rules of the CAF II auction that was conducted in 2018. Under the draft NPRM, Phase I of the RDOF would allocate support to wholly unserved census blocks not having broadband speeds at or above the 25/3 Mbps fixed broadband benchmark with a budget of at least $16 billion over ten years. Many of these wholly unserved census blocks were included in the state-wide offers the FCC extended to the price cap ILECs in 2015. The performance obligation in the statewide offers was set at the very low bar of 10/1 Mbps. The funding under these offers expires in 2021. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=cfd3a5d8-d3c3-4496-9e70-5d77853bc1e9 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <76E0CD04-32C3-402E-99BC-C14DD31D39BD@roscom.com> Date: 25 Jul 2019 13:50:08 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Judge allows suit against AT&T after $24 million cryptocurrency theft It's usually not possible to reverse fraudulent cryptocurrency transactions. When Michael Terpin's smartphone suddenly stopped working in June 2017, he knew it wasn't a good sign. He called his cellular provider, AT&T, and learned that a hacker had gained control of his phone number. The stakes were high because Terpin is a wealthy and prominent cryptocurrency investor. Terpin says the hackers gained control of his Skype account and tricked a client into sending a cryptocurrency payment to the hackers instead of to Terpin. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/judge-allows-suit-against-att-after-24-million-cryptocurrency-theft/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 26 Jul 2019