Message-ID: <20220212164602.83CCE7A7@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 16:46:02 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: Verizon's phone contracts are all three years now
Buy the device at full price or pay monthly installments for three years
By Emma Roth
If you're looking to buy a new phone at Verizon, you now only have two
options: buy the device outright, or pay monthly installments for
three years. As reported by Droid Life (via Android Police), Verizon
appears to have gotten rid of its 24- and 30-month contracts for all
devices - including phones, hot spots, and smartwatches - and has
instead extended it to 36 months.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/6/22920445/verizon-phone-contracts-three-years-36-months-payments
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Message-ID: <20220212172853.231AA7A7@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 17:28:53 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: Verizon Fios begins offering multi-gig home internet speeds
in NYC
The provider's fastest plan is available in select areas of the city
and will be rolled out to additional markets later this year.
After Ziply Fiber and AT&T nabbed headlines in January with
announcements about their new multi-gig home internet plans, Verizon
has stepped forward with news of its own. Beginning Tuesday, select
areas of the New York City market will be able to sign up for the Fios
2 Gigabit Connection plan, which offers upload and download speeds as
high as 2.3 gigabits per second.
Verizon Fios, the company's 100% fiber-optic home internet service, is
available in eight Northeastern states and the District of
Columbia. In most markets, it offers three plans: Fios 300 (300
megabits-per-second download and upload speeds), Fios 500 (500Mbps
download, upload) and Fios Gigabit (940Mbps download, 880Mbps upload).
***** Commentary *****
I'm curious where the "select areas of the New York City market" are
located, and even more curious as to what makes them "select."
I'm also curious about how a line that tops out at 940 Mbps can be
labelled "Gigabit" when it obviously isn't: let's see, I'll grab a
virtual pencil ...
940 divided by 1,000 is 0.94.
880 divided by 1,000 is 0.88.
So, Verizon's "Gigabit" service, according to Cnet, is only 94% of a
Gigabit on download, and only 88% of a Gigabit on uploads.
Bill Horne
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Message-ID: <20220212170411.955E37A7@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 17:04:11 +0000 (UTC)
From: Sean Murphy <murphy.s@remove-this.telecomdigest.net>
Subject: Verizon Turns to Quinn Emanual, Faegre Drinker to Defend
Class Suit Over Administrative Fees
Lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Faegre Drinker Biddle
& Reath on Thursday removed a consumer class action against Verizon
Communications to New Jersey District Court. The suit, filed by
Denittis Osefchen Prince and Hattis & Lukacs, challenges a monthly
administrative fee charged to wireless services customers. The case is
3:22-cv-00752, Achey et al v. Cellco Partnership (Dba Verizon
Wireless) et al.
https://www.law.com/njlawjournal/2022/02/11/verizon-turns-to-quinn-emanual-faegre-drinker-to-defend-class-suit-over-administrative-fees/?slreturn=20220112120145
Message-ID: <su8nfc$ja8$1@panix2.panix.com>
Date: 12 Feb 2022 16:32:44 -0000
From: "Scott Dorsey" <kludge@panix.com>
Subject: Re: 5G Deployment And Radio Altimeters - A Clash Of
Industries
Fred Atkinson <fatkinson.remove-this@and-this-too.mishmash.com> wrote:
>Ok, I see the issue.
>
>My question is why did they wait until 5G is about to be deployed
>rather than speaking up well before now?
Because neither the FAA nor the FCC have many technical experts left. So
it takes a long, long time for technical issues to trickle up from the few
technical people through all the lawyers up to the top.
European countries dealt with this quickly and efficiently.
And the honest truth is that for modern radar altimeters this isn't a
problem. But there are plenty of planes out there flying whose radar
altimeter receiver is just a horn and a diode detector. They were designed
that way because there wasn't any use of adjacent bands so nobody bothered
putting money and effort into making them any better.
--scott
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