---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20181203000112.GA17528@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 19:01:12 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Open Letter to 44,000 Verizon Employees Verizon's new strategy is a pratfall waiting to happen. By Geoffrey James Dear Verizon employees: By this point, you've no doubt heard that Verizon will pay you three weeks' salary for every year of service, if you leave the company voluntarily. You're probably wondering whether you should stay and hope for the best, or should you take the money and run. Stop wondering. Take the money. Tell your boss--today--that you want the severance package. Regardless of how long you've worked for the company, the money is a much better deal than what's coming down the pike. Here's why: https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/open-letter-to-44000-verizon-employees.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20181203000443.GA17547@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 19:04:44 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon's 5G Home Internet Service Is Sort Of Real, SOrt Of Fake Verizon became the first major ISP to launch 5G home internet service yesterday. It's a major step on the road to making 5G a reality, but if you've ever in your life interacted with an internet provider, you're probably at least a little bit skeptical: is this really 5G? The answer is sort of. In a phone call yesterday, Verizon's chief technology architect, Ed Chan, said that the newly launched home 5G service uses a number of technologies that have been deemed a part of 5G. Most important among those is the use of millimeter wave, the radio waves that will be the backbone of 5G connections. Millimeter wave connections work over a much shorter distance, but they're far faster, enabling Verizon to deliver gigabit speeds wirelessly. https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/2/17927712/verizon-5g-home-internet-real-speed-meaning -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20181203001334.GA17589@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 19:13:34 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T Picked for Wireless Comms Services, Devices Supply to VA AT&T Picked for Wireless Comms Services, Devices Supply to VA; Rob Dapkiewicz Quoted By Anna Forrester TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 26, 2018 - AT&T will provide wireless communications devices and services to personnel of the Department of Veterans Affairs over a potential five-year period as part of a recently awarded contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 30. The company said its contract includes the supply of mobile devices and delivery of 4G LTE data and voice services as well as Wi-Fi, tethering, air cards and hotspot services for more than 34K VA devices across the U.S. https://www.govconwire.com/2018/11/att-picked-for-wireless-comms-services-to-va-rob-dapkiewicz-quoted/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20181203002020.GA17710@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 19:20:20 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: These 3 Fixtures of Modern Life Could Completely Disappear Within 25 Years Back in 1993, an eerily prescient ad for AT&T tried to mine the predictions from its in-house research wing Bell Labs about the inventions we'd get to enjoy in the future. Directed by the famous director David Fincher and suavely voiced by Tom Selleck, the spot You Will, got a ton of stuff right. Voice activated doorbells? Yup. University classes with students joining remotely from around the globe? You bet. Video conferencing, phone call receiving watches, and work meetings by the beach? Check, check, and check. My local ATM isn't renewing driver's licenses quite yet, but that's about all they got wrong. You can watch the full series of spots cut together in the video below. https://www.inverse.com/article/51298-three-modern-fixtures-that-could-be-gone-soon -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20181203003246.GA17833@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 19:32:46 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: It's the beginning of the end of satellite TV in the US By Ashley Rodriguez "We've launched our last satellite," John Donovan, CEO of AT&T Communications, said in a meeting with analysts on Nov. 29. The AT&T executive effectively declared the end of the satellite-TV era with that statement. AT&T owns DirecTV, the US's largest satellite company - and second largest TV provider overall, behind Comcast. https://qz.com/1480089/att-just-declared-the-end-of-the-satellite-tv-era-in-the-us/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Tue, 04 Dec 2018