---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20181025010803.GA4531@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 21:08:03 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon Yahoo Agree to Pay $50 Million for Data Breach Sunnyvale, CA - The largest data breach in history is going to cost Yahoo which is owned by Verizon through their Oath, Inc. subsidiary $50 million and other related costs like credit monitoring protection. In an agreement that must be approved by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, CA., Yahoo agreed yesterday to pay $50 million in compensation to some 200 million Yahoo users located in the United States and Israel. The company reportedly will pay an additional $35 million in attorney fees, while providing two years of credit monitoring for those affected by the security breach. An unspecified compensation package for small businesses and individuals for losses caused by the hack is also in the mix. A hearing is scheduled for November 29, 2018, in front of U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh. Yahoo estimated about three billion accounts were breached in a series of hacks dating back to 2013, but it was not revealed for three years -- until Verizon moved to buy Yahoo's main business for $4.8 billion in 2016. Subsequently, Verizon was able to reduce the purchase price by roughly $350 Million. https://www.tapinto.net/towns/lower-merion-and-narberth/articles/verizon-yahoo-agree-to-pay-50-million-for-data-breach -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <bb21523a-9ed7-427c-a8ad-2facdbd9050c@googlegroups.com> Date: 23 Oct 2018 13:25:27 -0700 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: Opinion: Verizon leaves American workers in the lurch On Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 11:28:05 AM UTC-4, Bill Horne wrote: > The headline financial news story of late is Verizon's announcement > that it offered a voluntary severance package to about 44,000 > employees, or about one-third of its workforce. But the subtitle is > equally disturbing: Verizon will transfer more than 2,500 jobs - some > insiders peg the total at closer to 5,000 - to India-based Infosys as > part of a $700 million outsourcing agreement. Thousands who were once > Verizon employees will soon work for Infosys. In the past, the Bell System was proud that multiple generations of a family would work for the telephone company: 1951--35 members of her family worked for Bell. https://books.google.com/books?id=4EsEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&dq=life%20bell%20telephone%20family&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false 1953--military veteran returns home to telephone family https://books.google.com/books?id=QUIEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA7&dq=life%20bell%20telephone%20family&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false 1953--59 years of family telephone service https://books.google.com/books?id=GEgEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&dq=life%20fifty-nine&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false 1953--Mothers and daughters doing fine--working together at switchboards https://books.google.com/books?id=4EgEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA8&dq=LIFE%20mothers%20and%20daughters%20bell%20telephone&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q&f=false 1957 This Way Son--Western Electric training https://books.google.com/books?id=VT8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA24&dq=life%20%22this%20way%20son%22&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false Another old company that proudly advertised multiple generations working for it was Studebaker: 1948--father son team https://books.google.com/books?id=vUoEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=life%20western%20electric%20family&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q=life%20western%20electric%20family&f=false ------------------------------ Message-ID: <5476e412-d6e0-4c31-92eb-9341c15e33b2@googlegroups.com> Date: 23 Oct 2018 12:53:41 -0700 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: All Area Codes dot Com On Monday, October 22, 2018 at 6:05:25 PM UTC-4, Fred Atkinson wrote: > Folks, > > I just found this site a few minutes ago: > https://www.allareacodes.com . It has a few minor errors--in the exchange "Active Phone Number Prefixes" list, the Introduced-Date seems way too recent for old exchanges. For instance, some exchanges dating from at least from the 1950s are shown as been introduced in 1994. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <f17cb5e2-9ed7-4a0b-8f96-6c46d53e0121@googlegroups.com> Date: 23 Oct 2018 12:45:58 -0700 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: Opinion: Verizon leaves American workers in the lurch On Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 11:28:05 AM UTC-4, Bill Horne wrote: > The headline financial news story of late is Verizon's announcement > that it offered a voluntary severance package to about 44,000 > employees, or about one-third of its workforce. But the subtitle is > equally disturbing: Verizon will transfer more than 2,500 jobs - > some insiders peg the total at closer to 5,000 - to India-based > Infosys as part of a $700 million outsourcing agreement. Thousands > who were once Verizon employees will soon work for Infosys. > > IT analysts know that Infosys has a history of eliminating benefits > that transferred employees enjoyed and that the company will > eventually displace them with lower-cost Indian nationals. Verizon > is candid about its goals if not its methods: By 2021, the wireless > carrier hopes to slash $10 billion from its total $114 billion debt > load. > > http://suindependent.com/verizon-leaves-american-workers-lurch/ I've noticed that both Verizon and Comcast employ a lot of outside contractors for both work on pole lines and customer home visits. While contractors usually get a higher pay rate, they get zero benefits and are only paid when called in to work, no pay for off times. No vacation or sick pay, no help for health care costs. In my opinion, the contractors are not as well trained or as good a worker as traditional full time permanent staff. In my own experiences, they were rude and incompetent. Comcast launched a big ad campaign claiming it is restoring its customer service and hiring lots of technicians and customer service agents. I don't buy it. ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 25 Oct 2018