Message-ID: <20210807154946.8177E76F@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2021 15:49:46 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: In the Matter of Telecommunications Relay Services and
Speech-to-Speech Services for Individuals with Hearing and Speech
Disabilities
In 2007, technology was having a moment. The iPhone was introduced.
Big advancements took place in cloud storage and cognitive computing.
And back in 2007, the Federal Communications Commission developed a
methodology to support Internet Protocol Relay Services - or IP Relay
- a technology to assist those with hearing and speech disabilities
use text to communicate through the traditional phone system.
In the intervening years, there have been more iterations of the
smartphone than we can count and more expansion of cloud computing and
machine learning than we can quantify, but our framework for IP Relay
compensation has stayed the same.
https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/0805190424428/DOC-374694A2.pdf
Message-ID: <20210807153035.43FD176F@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2021 15:30:35 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Petition Seeking An Order Of The Public Service Commission
Commencing A Proceeding To Consider Issues Pertaining To Telecommunication
Services
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
This Petition seeks an Order of the Public Service Commission
("Commission") creating a formal proceeding to consider the methods,
technologies, policies and impacts on the public of New York's
telecommunications system, with specific reference to Commission
decisions regarding deregulation of service1. This proceeding should
address factual matters upon which policies are based, the broad
functionality and impacts of the system and its governing policies,
and specific issues enumerated below.
...
Rate increases and deregulation itself has been premised on assertions
that the legacy systems are significant money losers. The public
record, which includes PSC documents, FCC document and SEC documents
do not sustain those assumptions, and at best present conflicting data
on the revenues and costs of providers. For example, in 2010, Verizon
New York's SEC-Report had revenues of $7.2 billion, but the PSCAnnual
only showed about $4.98 billion, a difference of $2.24 billion.
Fundamental policies can not be based on such uncertain financial
data.
https://documents.dps.ny.gov/public/Common/ViewDoc.aspx?DocRefId=31683C58-512A-45BE-BC57-A6C06C54649C
Message-ID: <20210807153742.A3C5B76F@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2021 15:37:42 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Jury Convicts Two Former Wall Street Bank Traders of Wire
Fraud
A federal jury convicted two men for engaging in a multi-year fraud
scheme to manipulate U.S. commodities markets for publicly traded
precious metals futures contracts.
According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Edward
Bases, 59, of New Canaan, Connecticut, a former senior trader employed
at Deutsche Bank and Bank of America in New York, and John Pacilio,
57, of New York, New York, a former senior trader employed at Bank of
America and Morgan Stanley in New York, fraudulently pushed market
prices up or down by routinely placing large "spoof" orders in the
precious metals futures markets that they did not intend to
fill. Bases and Pacilio did so in order to manipulate prices for their
own gain and the banks' gain, and to defraud other traders on the
Commodity Exchange Inc. (COMEX) and the New York Mercantile Exchange
Inc. (NYMEX), both of which are exchanges run by the CME Group
Inc. (CME).
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/jury-convicts-two-former-wall-street-bank-traders-wire-fraud-0
