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The Telecom Digest
Monday, December 19, 2022

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Volume 41 Table of Contents Issue 289
Damaged fiber cables repaired; AT&T services restored in Southwest Louisiana
Re: Knowledge of rule didn’t stop [ AT&T execs from breaking law, SEC says
Re: What Is A Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO)? Working, Services, and Examples
Message-ID: <c28475d1-f231-2354-4dbd-47ca610c1aee@billhorne.com> Date: 18 Dec 2022 19:11:14 -0500 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: [telecom] Damaged fiber cables repaired; AT&T services restored in Southwest Louisiana Lake Charles, LA (KPLC) - Cellular and internet service has been restored in Southwest Louisiana after two damaged AT&T fiber cables were repaired. Numerous AT&T customers reported cell, phone and internet issues today. AT&T cell users saw an SOS symbol where the 5G symbol is normally. AT&T said Thursday morning that two fiber cables were damaged during recent severe weather, but Thursday afternoon corrected that with updated information. https://www.kplctv.com/2022/12/15/att-outages-reported-around-southwest-louisiana/ -- (Please remove QRM for direct replies)
Message-ID: <392386aa-5528-4df6-3a05-19806857b15a@billhorne.com> Date: 18 Dec 2022 19:14:23 -0500 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: [telecom] Knowledge of rule didn’t stop [ AT&T execs from breaking law, SEC says The company provided instruction on how to comply with Regulation FD, which prohibits the sharing of material, non-public information, but some IR specialists still allegedly flouted the law. By Robert Freedman Published Dec. 16, 2022 When the Securities and Exchange Commission in early December fined AT&T $6.25 million and separately fined three of its executives for disclosing material, non-public information to analysts, the agency said the executives knew the law but broke it anyway. “As members of AT&T’s IR Department, [Christopher] Womack, [Kent] Evans, and [Michael] Black received periodic training on Regulation FD and were familiar with its proscriptions against the selective disclosure of material nonpublic information,” the SEC said in its complaint. Yet they “knew or recklessly disregarded” what they knew. https://www.legaldive.com/news/sec-regulation-fd-att-execs/639001/
Message-ID: <tnl6gf$12g0$1@gal.iecc.com> Date: 17 Dec 2022 19:49:35 -0000 From: “John Levine” <johnl@taugh.com> Subject: Re: [telecom] What Is A Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO)? Working, Services, and Examples According to David <wb8foz@panix.com> And way out in the boonies, they may be on a site owned by a third > party, and having a non-exclusive lease with that party. “Our town > is so small it has one and only one cell tower...” So is ours. We have a bunch of antennae on the municipal water tower which unsurprisingly is atop the higest point in the village. I negotiated the original contracts. Now when I'm walking around I see small fill-in cell antennas on phone poles. In many countries it is quite common for MNOs to allow access to each other's towers in rural areas to improve coverage. Dunno how common that is here. Until relatively recently they usually couldn't becuase the systems weren't technically compatible, e.g. AT&T GSM vs VZ CDMA. -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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