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Message-ID: <20221007153722.GA493572@telecomdigest.us>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 15:37:22 +0000
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: ‘It’s just flopping around’: T-Mobile accused of using
flimsy ratchet straps on 5G cell towers
'I mean, this is heavy freaking stuff here, and it's just floating around in
the wind'
By Braden Bjella
A user on TikTok has gone viral after alleging that T-Mobile used
ratchet straps and "no other supports" to hold their cabling on a 5G
cellular tower.
In a video with over 595,000 views, user Cam shows the cables in
question. The 3G and 4G coaxial cables are held in place using ratchet
straps, while the new 5G cables appear to not be secured to the tower
at all, barring "the top strain relief," writes Cam.
https://www.dailydot.com/irl/t-mobile-flimsy-straps-5g-towers/
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Message-ID: <20221007172305.GA494396@telecomdigest.us> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 17:23:05 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Verizon Wins $1.58B Deal To Outfit U.S. Embassies With Next-Gen IT By Gina Narcisi Verizon has landed a new task order with the Department of State (DOS) to modernize U.S. embassies, consulars and other key locations around the globe. The Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contract is valued at $1.58 billion over the next 10 years. The deal will task the carrier giant with implementation and management of network solutions for the DOS' nondomestic footprint, including in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America. https://www.crn.com/news/networking/verizon-wins-1-58b-deal-to-outfit-u-s-embassies-with-next-gen-it Message-ID: <20221007170908.GA494141@telecomdigest.us> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 17:09:08 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Verizon: Painful Path Summary
Message-ID: <5fbc6f84-ab3e-0339-7fee-a20e825aa13e@wizinfo.com> Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 16:43:34 -0500 From: Dave Garland <dave.garland@remove-this.wizinfo.com> Subject: Re: Please critique the new online version of the Telecom Digest On 10/1/2022 2:46 PM, Bill Horne wrote: > 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/experiment.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? Looks fine to me, and normally I hate white on black. Maybe having the font large enough makes the difference. I've got old eyes too. (Running Pale Moon browser, which at the moment is sending a UserAgent claiming it's Safari on a Mac.) It also works with Brave and Opera, and doesn't care if I'm in AK or on VPN from the Netherlands. Using Vivaldi on my Android phone, the messages read fine but the masthead stuff is too tiny to read without significantly expanding the view (then, of course, the messages are too big to read without much scrolling). (I think there's a way for you to detect screen size and adjust the size of the masthead accordingly. But I don't know how myself.) > 2. Does it present a professional appearance? In other words, does > it look good? It looks fine. It does not look contemporary (i.e. frames, graphics, videos, and a gigabyte of Javascript). So it does look old-fashioned. Yeah, a little Geocities, except no "blink" or "marquee" tags. But it works. And LOADS INSTANTANEOUSLY!!!! I had forgotten what that was like, in this CSS-choked Javascript hobbled world, even though I've got a 500M connection. > 3. What would you change if you could? Why? I think it's great. Fast loading, no autoplay videos, what more could one ask? But maybe not enough eye candy for today's yoof. Dave ************************** Moderator's Note ************************** Thanks for taking time to send in your ideas, Dave: I appreciate them. I'm puzzled by your comment about the masthead: I would have thought it was "too big" if compared to the individual messages, so please tell us more about which part of it is out-of-proportion: the Table of Contents? The top-of-page banner and images? As to capturing screen size, that's a good idea: with so many tiny mobile devices and so few 80x40 green-screens from the days of my youth, I'm willing to adapt a little bit (kicking and screaming, of course ...), but I'll need some help from those whom didn't learn HTML by way of the IBM Script manual I had to study to make use of the "Laser" printer attached to the cms mainfrome we used with our 3278 tubes. Oh, and you mentioned something called "Javascript:" what's that? 😉 Again, my thanks: yours is EXACTLY the kind of feedback I need to make this work. Bill Horne |
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