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Message-ID: <20200905040013.GA5678@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 04:00:13 +0000
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Tara Lachapelle on AT&T's Need to Sell DirecTV
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Tara Lachapelle explains why AT&T needs to
cut its losses with DirecTV, even if it means selling the unit for $30
billion less than AT&T paid in 2015.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2020-09-04/tara-lachapelle-on-at-t-s-need-to-sell-directv-podcast
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Message-ID: <86h7scn9vc.fsf@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: 5 Sep 2020 04:08:39 +0000
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: AT&T Is Astroturfing The FCC In Support Of Trump Attack
AT&T Is Astroturfing The FCC In Support Of Trump's Dumb Attack On Social
Media.
from the fake-support-for-dumb-ideas dept
Thu, Sep 3rd 2020 6:12am - Karl Bode
We've noted for a long time that telecom giants like Comcast and AT&T
have been pushing (quite successfully) for massive deregulation of their
own monopolies, while pushing for significant new regulation of the
Silicon Valley giants whose ad revenues they've coveted for decades. As
such, it wasn't surprising to see AT&T come out with a incredibly dumb
blog post this week supporting Trump's legally dubious and hugely
problematic executive order targeting social media giants. You know, the
plan that not only isn't enforceable by the agencies supposedly tasked
with enforcing it (the FCC), but that also risks creating a massive new
censorship paradigm across the entire internet.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200902/11074145232/att-is-astroturfing-fcc-support-trumps-dumb-attack-social-media.shtml
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Message-ID: <20200905035717.GA5639@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 03:57:17 +0000
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: AT&T cell towers down in parts of Placer County, sheriff's
office says
AUBURN, Calif. - Cell towers for AT&T in a few areas in Placer County
will be down until midnight, the Placer County Sheriff's Office said
Thursday night.
"If you have AT&T as your cell phone provider, you may not be able to
make any outgoing calls, or receive calls," the sheriff's office said
in a Facebook post. "You also may not be able to get through to 911."
https://www.kcra.com/article/atandt-cell-towers-down-in-parts-of-placer-county-sheriffs-office-says/33920926
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Message-ID: <20200905033147.GA5501@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 03:31:47 +0000
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: U.S. Customs Opens Mass Searches of Data on Confiscated
Traveler Smartphones, Computers
I am an advocate of providing law enforcement officers the newest
technology to do their jobs well.
If there is a recording of an event, the police should be able to use
it.
If a stingray can capture cell phone conversation, with appropriate
procedural limitation, an officer should be able to listen and record.
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/us-customs-opens-mass-searches-data-confiscated-traveler-smartphones-computers
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