---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180918174251.GA22683@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:42:51 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: North Carolina Verizon customers, trapped by Hurricane Florence, say they're being throttled and upsold

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Redditor AbeFroman21 posted that he and his family are without power or internet due to Hurricane Florence, and that Verizon has throttled their internet access to an unusable trickle, offering to unblock them if they pay for a higher tier of service. The incident recalls last month's news that Verizon was throttling firefighters battling California's record-breaking wildfires, refusing to unblock them unless they paid for a more expensive account. https://boingboing.net/2018/09/17/gougin-in-the-rain.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <50e86fe7-a0ce-44b4-9483-52104bcdc70a@googlegroups.com> Date: 17 Sep 2018 10:25:13 -0700 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: AT&T AirGig could mean 100-megabit rural broadband in 2021

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On Monday, September 17, 2018 at 8:31:54 AM UTC-4, Bill Horne wrote: > Expect hundreds of megabits per second, maybe even a gigabit, even in > sparsely populated areas -- as long as homes are near power lines. > > AT&T hopes its AirGig technology for piggybacking high-speed data links > on power lines will arrive in 2021, potentially improving broadband in > areas where it's not economical to lay fiber-optic cables. > > AirGig doesn't connect directly to houses. Instead, it sends data > hopping along from power pole to power pole so it can traverse > relatively long distances. For that final communication link to a > house, AT&T will use more conventional wireless equipment like 5G > mobile networks. > > https://www.cnet.com/news/at-t-airgig-could-mean-100-megabit-rural-broadband-in-2021/ Along these lines, this 1948 ad from Western Electric announcing new rural telephone service is cute: https://books.google.com/books?id=a0YEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&dq=LIFE%20telephone%20is%20coming&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false (see also portable radio ad on pg 5) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180918175309.GA22724@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:53:09 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T's Quick Win In Ethernet Patent Suit Upheld By Fed. Circ.

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The Federal Circuit on Monday affirmed a Texas district court's decision to grant AT&T a quick win in Advanced Media Networks' suit alleging the telecommunications giant infringed on a patent covering technology used to wirelessly connect to the internet, saying that a key term was construed correctly. http://www.temple-chambers.co.uk/fed-circ-upholds-att-quick-win-in-ethernet-patent-case/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180918180615.GA22764@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:06:16 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: 'Presidential Alert': Trump text slides to October 3

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You'll soon be getting a message on your phone from the President of the United States - whether you are a supporter or not. It's not a political message, but an emergency test message sent from President Donald Trump as part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's system to warn the public in cases of national emergencies. https://fox2now.com/2018/09/18/presidential-alert-trump-text-slides-to-october-3/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180918173932.GA22648@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:39:32 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Officials eye solutions over continued Verizon signal headache

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By Jackie Smith Driving up and down the St. Clair River, Bill Gratopp jokes his knowledge of where he'll suddenly lose cell phone service has become somewhat of an expertise. "(From) the state park to downtown Algonac, on (the) way to Marine City, in Marine City, next a mile north, in Marysville," said the St. Clair County commissioner, who lives on the county's south end. "These are given spots, I know right where they are. I know talking to you, I'm going to lose you in 10, feet, 20 feet - you're gone." https://www.thetimesherald.com/story/news/2018/09/17/officials-eye-solutions-over-continued-verizon-signal-headache/1336158002/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Wed, 19 Sep 2018