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The Telecom Digest for September 21, 2012
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AT&T Chief Speaks Out on Texting at the Wheel (Monty Solomon)
What's AT&T planning? Hidden specs unearthed in the GSM iPhone 5 (Monty Solomon)

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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:52:20 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: AT&T Chief Speaks Out on Texting at the Wheel
Message-ID: <p0624084ccc803537fb16@[10.0.1.8]>

AT&T Chief Speaks Out on Texting at the Wheel

By MATT RICHTEL
September 19, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO - Randall L. Stephenson, the chairman and chief 
executive of AT&T, spoke Wednesday morning at a conference in New 
York to hundreds of major investors, including Fortune 500 
executives. The topic was the state of the telecom businesses, but he 
began with a request on a different topic: Please don't text and 
drive.

He's been saying it a lot lately, at investor conferences, the annual 
shareholder meeting in April, town halls and civic club meetings, and 
in conversations with chief executives of other major companies.

AT&T is not the first or only carrier to raise awareness on this 
issue, but the message is starting at the top and it's personal.

Mr. Stephenson said in an interview that a few years ago someone 
close to him caused an accident while texting. As he has become more 
vocal about texting and driving, he said people were coming up to him 
and writing him with their own stories of tragedy, including 
admissions that they caused accidents.

The smartphone, he says, "is a product we sell and it's being used 
inappropriately." For him, that means the company he runs has to get 
involved in a public awareness campaign. "We have got to drive 
behavior."

Safety advocates say for the moment that they are particularly 
impressed by AT&T's persistent and broad efforts to draw attention to 
the problem of texting while driving.

...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/technology/att-chief-speaks-out-on-texting-while-driving.html




Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:25:52 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: What's AT&T planning? Hidden specs unearthed in the GSM iPhone 5
Message-ID: <p06240860cc80ca54ede2@[10.0.1.8]>

Sep 13, 2012
What's AT&T planning? Hidden specs unearthed in the GSM iPhone 5
BY Kevin Fitchard
FCC documentation reveals there are two more LTE bands hidden within AT&T's version of the new iPhone 5: PCS and cellular. The thing is there are no networks at either frequency today that could connect to the device. Could AT&T be planning a massive network overhaul?

http://gigaom.com/mobile/whats-att-planning-hidden-specs-unearthed-in-the-gsm-iphone-5/






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