Table of contents:

* 1 - [telecom] Title II Gets Day in Court - Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-
  this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
* 2 - [telecom] Net Neutrality Oral Arguments! - Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-
  this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
* 3 - Re: [telecom] Wi-Fi calling to begin landing on some Verizon smartphones
  this week - danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
* 4 - [telecom] Verizon's interest in Yahoo - Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
* 5 - [telecom] Parents in the dark about popular anonymous teen phone app -
  HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
* 6 - Re: [telecom] Net Neutrality Oral Arguments! - "John Levine"
  <johnl@iecc.com>

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Message-ID: <b4250611-9d6f-400d-ad3b-51a83fed29e0@googlegroups.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 19:06:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
Subject: [telecom] Title II Gets Day in Court

By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 12/04/2015

The FCC's second attempt at network neutrality rules got a thorough going-over
in lengthy oral arguments in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia. But so did ISP's and others' litany of challenges to various parts
of those new rules, most notably for cable operators reclassification under
Title II.

The judges seemed to be equal opportunity probers.

Before the argument, a friend of the FCC's court argument predicted that the
outcome would be sufficiently ambiguous for both sides to be able to claim
some victories, and that appeared to be the case.

http://www.multichannel.com/news/fcc/title-ii-gets-day-court/395728
-or-
http://tinyurl.com/hxkpvpf

Neal McLain


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Message-ID: <5170c572-64ae-4a92-b215-0d6f142f9b68@googlegroups.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 19:39:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
Subject: [telecom] Net Neutrality Oral Arguments!

Recorded Live At the D.C. Circuit: Net Neutrality Oral Arguments!
By Harry Cole, CommLawBlog, December 6, 2015

If you've got three hours to kill (and who doesn't?), and you don't feel like
spending $15 for a movie (and who does?), we have a suggestion. Curl up next
to your computer (or laptop, or tablet or smartphone, or other mode of
Internet access) and listen to the oral argument in the Net Neutrality case
before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

The court heard arguments on December 4. Anyone who figured that they could
just traipse in to the court that morning and get a primo seat (as is usually
the case) was probably surprised to find that (according to the Washington
Post) the line to get in started forming the night before the argument,
meaning that some enthusiasts apparently camped out outside the courthouse for
the night. So we're guessing that some folks who might have wanted to attend
the show didn't make it in.

http://tinyurl.com/ztpmlb7

Neal McLain


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Message-ID: <n45bqu$afr$1@reader1.panix.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 01:30:07 +0000 (UTC)
From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
Subject: Re: [telecom] Wi-Fi calling to begin landing on some Verizon
 smartphones this week

In <66E5298D-2C23-4297-B2C1-227E7537BBB0@roscom.com> Monty Solomon
<monty@roscom.com> writes:

>by Steven Musil

>The feature is useful when customers find themselves in an area with weak or
>no carrier coverage.

>Verizon will bring Wi-Fi calling this week to some customers with
>Android smartphones, making it the last major US carrier to offer the
>wireless network feature.

Yes, it's useful. Very, very, useful. Especially when (depends on
carrier) you can use WiFi in, say, a Lisbon, Portugal, coffeeshop
to make a call that looks, sounds like [a], and is billed like..
like it's a domestic US one.

However:
[a] WiFi is NOT as reliable a voice communications channel
as a (pseudo-dedicated) direct cellular channel. You're
competing with all the other users at that coffeeshop, so
there's potential for lots of dropoust, jitter, etc.

- If you have the _option_ of using WiFi _or_ cellular
as _your_ choice, it's great. But... I've seen phones
and carriers where the default is to try a WiFi conection
and it takes a specific effort to turn WiFi off.


--
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
		     dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]


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Message-ID: <20151210010910.GA16837@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 20:09:11 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
Subject: [telecom] Verizon's interest in Yahoo

Verizon Communications Inc. wants to attract teens and millennials who
are more used to watching videos on their mobile phones than on a TV
in a living room. Yahoo! Inc., which is spinning out its main Web
business, has been investing heavily in online-video content.

So it's probably not a coincidence that executives at the largest
U.S. wireless carrier were chattier than usual this week when asked
the question: Would Verizon be interested in buying Yahoo's Internet
assets?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-09/the-rationale-behind-verizon-s-interest-in-yahoo-s-web-business

--
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)


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Message-ID: <9b2f9cbc-194c-4663-b993-b30a179d07ab@googlegroups.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 11:47:38 -0800 (PST)
From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: [telecom] Parents in the dark about popular anonymous teen phone app

The Washington Post reported that millions of teenagers in
high schools nationwide are using a smartphone app to anonymously
share their deepest anxieties, secret crushes, vulgar assessments
of their classmates and even violent threats, all without adults
being able to look in.  The After School app has exploded in
popularity this school year and is now on more than 22,300 high
school campuses, according to its creators.  Because it is designed
to be accessible only to teenagers, many parents and
administrators have not known anything about it.  Envisioned as a
safe space for high schoolers to discuss sensitive issues without
having to reveal their names, After School has in some cases
become a vehicle for bullying, crude observations and alleged
criminal activity, all under a cloak of secrecy.

for full detailed article please see:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/


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Message-ID: <20151210043017.68004.qmail@ary.lan>
Date: 10 Dec 2015 04:30:17 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Subject: Re: [telecom] Net Neutrality Oral Arguments!

>If you've got three hours to kill (and who doesn't?), and you don't feel like
>spending $15 for a movie (and who does?), we have a suggestion. Curl up next
>to your computer (or laptop, or tablet or smartphone, or other mode of
>Internet access) and listen to the oral argument in the Net Neutrality case
>before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

I happened to be driving down to DC this afternoon so I put them on my
phone and listened in the car.  They were in fact quite interesting.

Thanks!

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