---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20181012035347.GA29948@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 23:53:47 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon Changes Exit Package for Workers It Planned to Outsource Carrier will now offer severance or guarantee two years of comparable pay at Infosys By Sarah Krouse Verizon Communications Inc. VZ -1.84% on Thursday changed the exit package offered to about 1,000 of its U.S. workers who were set to move to outsourcing giant Infosys Ltd. INFY -2.26% After telling those information-technology workers in late September that they weren't eligible for severance, the wireless carrier is now giving them the option of taking the exit package or moving to Infosys with a guarantee of comparable pay and benefits for two years. https://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-changes-exit-package-for-workers-it-planned-to-outsource-1539295703 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20181012034713.GA29928@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 23:47:13 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Core Communications Inc. vs Verizon heats up Core Communications has sued Verizon over reciprocal compensation claims. Verizon is fighting back, claiming they haven't been paid and are owed several million dollars. http://www.puc.state.pa.us/pcdocs/1219527.pdf -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <31427a32-8d01-41b7-a0a5-454c995fb462@googlegroups.com> Date: 10 Oct 2018 16:38:20 -0700 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Film on party line contention "Pillow Talk" In the days of party lines, there was often contention on access. In the postwar era, many people wanted a private line, but there was inadequate capacity in some areas to provide it due to very high demand. In 1959, Universal Pictures made a comedy about this starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day as two frustrated party line users. Personally, I thought the film was rather foolish, but it got good reviews. http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/4363/Pillow-Talk/ It will air on TCM (Turner Classic Movies) on Thursday, October 18 @ 12:00 AM (check local listings). ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 12 Oct 2018