---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190126190501.GA7254@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 14:05:01 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Palo Alto CA Residents protest approval of Verizon equipment City Council to consider appeals from sponsors, opponents of Crown Castle's proposed installations by Gennady Sheyner/Palo Alto Weekly A group of Palo Alto residents is sounding off against a decision by the city's top planning official to approve the installation of wireless equipment on five downtown streetlight poles - a ruling that is now being challenged by both the project's sponsors and opponents. https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2019/01/23/residents-blast-approval-of-verizon-equipment -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190126191011.GA7276@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 14:10:11 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon Customers Withdraw Lawsuit Against Turn Over Zombie Cookies by Wendy Davis After nearly four years of battle, two New York residents who sued ad company Turn over its use of Verizon's "supercookies" have dropped their case. The two plaintiffs -- Anthony Henson and William Cintron -- didn't give a reason for their decision, which was conveyed to U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White in court papers filed Wednesday. The papers state that Turn "has not made or promised any payment to plaintiffs or their counsel in return for dismissal of the action." https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/330969/verizon-customers-withdraw-lawsuit-against-turn-ov.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <5EC5C51A-C9C4-4995-A958-1D3D9399F579@roscom.com> Date: 27 Jan 2019 09:50:30 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: It's Now Clear None of the Supposed Benefits of Killing Net Neutrality Are Real It's Now Clear None of the Supposed Benefits of Killing Net Neutrality Are Real Network investment is down, layoffs abound, and networks are falling apart. This isn't the glorious future Ajit Pai promised. In the months leading up to the FCC assault on net neutrality, big telecom and FCC boss Ajit Pai told anybody who'd listen that killing net neutrality would boost broadband industry investment, spark job creation, and drive broadband into underserved areas at an unprecedented rate. As it turns out, none of those promises were actually true. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gyab5m/its-now-clear-none-of-the-supposed-benefits-of-killing-net-neutrality-are-real ***** Moderator's Note ***** The next step will be the old switcheroo: circuits now dedicated to the "old" Internet will be allocated elsewhere to meet "unexpected demand," and real-time traffic such as steaming video and VoIP will get less and less usable, with longing and longer gaps and more and more buffering. The video providers will raise their rates and pay up. VoIP is an open question, since margins are low in that business, but corporate titans will pick up their phones and call their Congressman, as soon as their "cheap" long-distance starts going away. Email delays will become noticeable, and then significant, and then problematic: but I doubt industry will care, given the growing consensus that email is more a curse than a blessing. If emails are delivered within an hour, there won't be much of a hue and cry. Once a monopoly, always a monopoly: the politicians who make it possible are already licking their chops at the thought of all the do-nothing jobs they'll be able to slide their idiot relatives into, now that Mother Bell has been raised from the dead. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190126175536.GA6956@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 12:55:36 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: ORLANDO, FL Verizon service restored in Central Florida Updated: 3:43 PM EST Jan 18, 2019 ORLANDO, Fla. - UPDATE: Verizon Wireless engineers were able to resolve issues that caused a disturbance in service as of 3 p.m. ORIGINAL STORY: A Verizon Wireless outage impacted customers Friday in Central Florida. According to an outage map on Verizon's website, the majority of the impacted customers were in the Orlando area. Tweets to Verizon support Friday afternoon came from people experiencing service issues in Orlando and Windermere. https://www.wesh.com/article/verizon-outage-impacting-people-in-central-florida/25952045 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Mon, 28 Jan 2019