---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20181018010921.GA17616@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 21:09:21 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Generic telco AI platforms will be driven by open source, but it will be years before widespread commercial deployment Oyster Bay, New York - 17 Oct 2018 The use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the telecom domain is now an established practice and chatbots, customer services, and network management are areas where AI is part of everyday operations. The latest report by ABI Research, a market-foresight advisory firm providing strategic guidance on the most compelling transformative technologies, has identified that the latest trend for AI development in telecoms: AI platforms that focus on generic use rather than individual use cases. "Despite the widespread use of AI and machine learning across many separated telecoms domains, AI platforms are now the top concern for leading mobile service providers globally, including AT&T, Deutsche Telecom, Telefonica, and Vodaphone." said Dimitris Mavrakis, Research Director at ABI Research. "The promise of these platforms is great, but there is still heavy development to be done and many mobile service providers are still not sure where to place their bets. Initiatives like AT&T's open sourced Project Acumos illustrate that open source will be the most suitable development environment for these telecom AI platforms, potentially meaning trouble for established AI vendors, such as Amazon, Google, and IBM." https://www.telecomtv.com/content/open-source/generic-telco-ai-platforms-will-be-driven-by-open-source-but-it-will-be-years-before-widespread-commercial-deployment-32780/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20181018010544.GA17597@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 21:05:44 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: PEN America Sues Trump Just as He Renews Attacks on the Media By John Bonazzo President Donald Trump is the subject of another lawsuit, this time from the "fake news media." The free speech advocacy group PEN America is suing the president in New York district court, claiming he "violated the First Amendment and his oath to uphold the Constitution." PEN alleges that Trump's frequent threats against the press are "intended to stifle exercise of the constitutional protections of free speech." The organization notes that Trump has the right to criticize the press, but not to punish it. https://observer.com/2018/10/pen-america-sues-trump-free-speech-media-attack/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20181018004823.GA17549@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 20:48:23 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Up to 9.5 million net neutrality comments were made with stolen identities By Jon Brodkin The New York attorney general's office is widening an investigation into fraudulent net neutrality comments, saying it estimates that up to 9.5 million comments were submitted using stolen identities. NY AG Barbara Underwood "subpoenaed more than a dozen telecommuni- cations trade groups, lobbying contractors, and Washington advocacy organizations on Tuesday, seeking to determine whether the groups submitted millions of fraudulent public comments to sway a critical federal decision on Internet regulation," The New York Times reported yesterday. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/up-to-9-5-million-net-neutrality-comments-were-made-with-stolen-identities/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20181018005900.GA17578@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 20:59:00 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: DOJ Continues To Point Out A Mega-Merged AT&T Will Jack Up Prices On Everybody from the do-not-pass-go,-do-not-collect-$200 dept AT&T recently defeated the DOJ's challenge to their $86 billion merger with Time Warner thanks to a comically narrow reading of the markets by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon. At no point in his 172-page ruling (which approved the deal without a single condition) did Leon show the faintest understanding that AT&T intends to use vertical integration synergistically with the death of net neutrality to dominate smaller competitors. In fact, net neutrality was never even mentioned by the DOJ at the multi-week trial. Likely in part because the DOJ didn't want to highlight how the Trump FCC was screwing everybody over with one hand, while the Trump DOJ was allegedly suing AT&T to "protect consumers" with the other (some argue that Trump's disdain for CNN and adoration of Rupert Murdoch were the more likely motivators). But if you ignore the fact that AT&T plans to use its monopoly over many broadband markets (from residential to cellular tower backhaul) combined with the death of net neutrality to make life difficult for consumers and competitors alike, you're not paying any attention to history or to AT&T's repeated nods in that general direction. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181016/10052140848/doj-continues-to-point-out-mega-merged-att-will-jack-up-prices-everybody.shtml -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 19 Oct 2018