---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180128020923.GA5003@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 21:09:23 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T wants Congress to draft a net neutrality law. Here's why that's a big deal. By Brian Fung AT&T is calling on Congress for a national net neutrality law that would govern Internet providers and tech companies alike, which the telecom giant says would end a fractious, years-long debate over the future of the Web. In a series of full-page ads Wednesday in major newspapers such as The Washington Post and the New York Times, AT&T chief executive Randall Stephenson proposed an "Internet Bill of Rights" that could help guarantee an open Internet, one in which online content is not blocked or slowed down by telecom or cable companies, nor by Internet companies such as Google or Facebook. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/01/24/att-is-pushing-for-a-net-neutrality-law-that-covers-isps-and-tech-companies-too/?utm_term=.217bb6ae -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180128020205.GA4962@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 21:02:05 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: 911 systems down due to cut AT&T fiber line WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) Multiple counties are reporting a [911] system outage due to cut AT&T fiber line. Officials say not all calls are reaching the call center. If the call isn't answered in a few seconds, hang up and try again. Sedgwick County residents are urged to call 263-6011 if they're unable to get through on 911. http://www.kwch.com/content/news/911-systems-down-due-to-cut-ATT-fiber-line--471473474.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <7F33F7B9-4855-47BC-8553-F7235E401776@roscom.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 23:47:36 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Meet the $800 Smartphone That You Probably Won't Buy The Mate 10 Pro from Huawei, the Chinese manufacturer, has a great camera and better battery life than competitors. But American carriers aren't selling it. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/technology/personaltech/huawei-mate-10-pro-smartphone-review.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <C3ECD42C-0CB7-4E2F-A5A7-EC10993E08ED@roscom.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 23:49:07 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records Feature for iPhone Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records Feature for iPhone A new feature on the iPhone Health app will allow users to automatically download blood test results and other data from their health care providers. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/technology/Apple-iPhone-medical-records.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <p4jc0b$i2k$1@reader2.panix.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 02:19:56 +0000 (UTC) From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> Subject: Re: 911 systems down due to cut AT&T fiber line In <20180128020205.GA4962@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> writes: >WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) Multiple counties are reporting a [911] system >outage due to cut AT&T fiber line. >Sedgwick County residents are urged to call 263-6011 if they're unable >to get through on 911. [snip....] Dear Public Information Officer and News Media Flunkies. Please, please, please, always, ALWAYS, make sure to include the "area code". (with the same comment to far too many other folk who really should know better) Thank you for deciding to enter the 20th century. -- _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 28 Jan 2018