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Message-ID: <20221001123636.GA446882@telecomdigest.us>
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2022 12:36:36 +0000
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: [telecom] NE: 911 Service Restored Across The Panhandle After 10-Hour
Outage
By John Axtell
911 service has been restored in the Panhandle after being out for
about 10 hours Thursday night and Friday morning in all areas except
Scottsbluff-Gering.
911 service went down about 5:30 pm and was back up around 3:30
am. All non-emergency administrative lines at the Chadron Police
Station/Dispatch Center were also out during that time.
Chadron Police Chief Rick HIckstein says the Chadron center used the
department's Facebook page and the emergency phone notification
call-and-text system to let the public know of the problem. The voice
call described it as nine hundred eleven service.
...
Hickstein says his dispatchers were first told of the outage not by
CenturyLink, but by their counterparts in Alliance and Rushville.
The company also didn't notify them when service was restored; the
dispatchers had been testing it periodically all night and noticed the
system was working again about 3:00.
https://chadronradio.com/news/911-service-restored-across-the-panhandle-after-10-hour-outage/
Message-ID: <20221001194612.GA449316@telecomdigest.us> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2022 19:46:12 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: [telecom] Please critique the new online version of the Telecom Digest The "online" version of the Telecom Digest is now ready for Beta test, and I need your help. The new version is at https://telecomdigest.net/rsi/latest-issue.html . Please let me know what your opinions are concerning the web-based version, and answer these questions for me: 1. Is it readable on your device, and if not, why not? 2. Does it present a professional appearance? In other words, does it look good? 3. What would you change if you could? Why? Thank you for your help. I appreciate it. If you'd rather your comments weren't published, please change the "[telecom]" tag in the Subject line to "[nfp]," which means "Not For Publication." If you would prefer that your comments were published anonymously, then the "[anonymous]" tag will tell me that. Please see the FAQ for details about the tags: http://telecomdigest.net/faq.html Bill Horne Moderator -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to send your reply to my personal account) Message-ID: <s5IZK.524896$Ny99.170570@fx16.iad> Date: 30 Sep 2022 16:13:18 -0400 From: "Michael Trew" <michael.trew@att.net> Subject: Re: [telecom] California Passes Law to Protect Children's Data Online On 9/27/2022 22:22, Bill Horne wrote: > The 18-year age threshold for > defining a child online is several years higher than the federal > standard set by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, which > protects data collected from online users under 13. The bulk of the > new bill requires online service providers to complete a Data > Protection Impact Assessment for any online service, product, or > feature likely to be accessed by children. The trouble is that children lie about their age for on-line services, and parents usually don't monitor what they are doing... at least, they don't monitor them well enough. I have first hand experience; now at 27 years old, I'm well aware of what myself, siblings and peers did on-line from circa 2005-2012 (10 to 17 years old). Message-ID: <L7IZK.524897$Ny99.35928@fx16.iad> Date: 30 Sep 2022 16:15:45 -0400 From: "Michael Trew" <michael.trew@att.net> Subject: Re: [telecom] T-Mobile waiving overcharge fees On 9/29/2022 18:47, Bill Horne wrote: > By: Keyshawn Frazier > > T-Mobile has announced that customers in certain counties of Florida > and Georgia who are impacted by Hurricane Ian and are not already on > unlimited plans will not pay overage charges. > > The company is waiving unlimited talk, text and data from Sep. 28 to > Oct. 3 for the following counties in Florida and Georgia : ... > > https://www.fox4now.com/news/state/t-mobile-waiving-overcharge-fees I don't buy it; it's a marketing ploy. They did the same thing during the start of the pandemic. I have friends who became used to unlimited minutes, text messages, and data... they subsequently upgraded to higher-cost unlimited plans after T-mo pulled the "unlimited" plug. It's a back-handed marketing tactic. |
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