Message-ID: <20210826010338.982A173C@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 01:03:38 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Zoom agrees to $85M settlement in litigation over privacy
and 'Zoombombings'
BY Debra Cassens Weiss
Zoom Video Communications has agreed to pay $85 million to settle
nationwide litigation alleging misrepresentations and broken promises
regarding customers' security and privacy.
The litigation alleges that Zoom shared users' information through
third-party integration with social media companies such as
Facebook. It also claims that Zoom violated security promises related
to "Zoombombings" by hackers who disrupted meetings.
https://tinyurl.com/3n7k9u2s
Message-ID: <20210826022231.CB94073C@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 02:22:31 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: AT&T, Wireless Industry Hostile to Sharing Spectrum: It
Belongs to Us or Forget It
The President's Council of Advisors on Policy and Technology's
recommendation that the growing demand for wireless spectrum be met by
sharing frequencies with the federal government is getting a cold
reception from the wireless industry.
AT&T, other wireless operators, and their lobbying trade association
have been embarked on a fierce campaign in Washington to free up
additional spectrum they can use to meet growing demands for wireless
data. Unfortunately, clearing spectrum that can be re-purposed for
wireless phone companies requires complicated, and often expensive
frequency reassignments as existing users relocate elsewhere. With the
federal government holding a large swath of spectrum for the use of a
range of public safety, research, and military applications, the best
source for new frequencies comes from Washington. PCAST's final
200-page report urges the Commerce Department prioritize locating
1000MHz of frequencies that could be re-purposed for private wireless
communications. But the council also recommended that frequencies
could be more quickly made available by asking wireless telecom
companies to share them with existing users.
https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/7021992184.pdf
Message-ID: <20210826132521.C6FB6730@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:25:21 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: California's 'Open Access' Fiber Broadband Plan Is Making
Telecom Giants Like AT&T Nervous
from the do-not-pass-go,-do-not-collect-$200 dept
By Karl Bode
Back in 2009, the FCC funded a Harvard study that concluded that
open access broadband networks (letting multiple ISPs come in and
compete over a central, core network) resulted in lower broadband
prices and better service in numerous locations worldwide. Of course
when the Obama FCC released its "National Broadband Plan" back in
2010, this realization (not to mention an honest accounting of the
sector's limited competition) was nowhere to be found. Both parties
ignored the data and instead doubled down on our existing national
telecom policy plan: letting AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast do pretty much
whatever they'd like. Something, of course, taken to ridiculous new
heights during the Trump era.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210824/07565547420/californias-open-access-fiber-broadband-plan-is-making-telecom-giants-like-att-nervous.shtml
