Message-ID: <20211203191704.1CE01765@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2021 19:17:04 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: T-Mobile hams up 5G coverage at Verizon's expense
By Monica Alleven
HAWAII--It's become somewhat of a ritual for T-Mobile. Bring the
cakes, fake or real, and show off how much 5G coverage or mid-band
spectrum that T-Mobile holds in comparison to rivals AT&T and Verizon.
At one of the first big in-person tech media events since the Covid
pandemic - the Qualcomm-hosted Snapdragon Tech Summit - T-Mobile made
sure to bring the physical goods: cake models comparing the 5G
coverage of the three biggest U.S. wireless carriers; a T-Mobile
edition of the traditional Lite-Brite game with a lone light
displaying Verizon's coverage in Hawaii; and two-sided posters
comparing T-Mobile's vast 5G coverage and Verizon's "dot" of 5G
coverage on the Big Island.
https://www.fiercewireless.com/5g/t-mobile-hams-5g-coverage-verizons-expense
Message-ID: <20211203172613.006AC30EA5E9@ary.qy>
Date: 3 Dec 2021 12:26:11 -0500
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Subject: Re: FCC R&O concerning pole attachments
It appears that Moderator
<telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.remove-this.telecom-digest.org> said:
>There's more to my concern then just one or two poles in Winslow Arizona.
>
>The FCC has just published its Repor & Order on the subject, and (IMHO)
>they make clear that the ordinary folks who paid for the poles by
>giving up their rights of way are going to get shafted.
>
>https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-18-111A1.pdf
I took a look and I don't get it. The poles are already there. What
difference
does it make if there are more wires hanging on them?
Also, I dunno about where you are, but most of the poles here are in the
municipality's
right of way with access presumably negotiated a century ago when the initial
phone and
power franchises were made. Also, to point out the obvious, the poles allow
us to have
phone and power that we wouldn't otherwise.
R's,
John
Message-ID: <e5f43abb8dd0888d1525d414a020f85b.squirrel@hallikainen.org>
Date: 3 Dec 2021 11:58:49 -0700
From: "Harold Hallikainen" <harold@hallikainen.org>
Subject: Verizon wants your data!
Verizon is opting mobile users in to a new tracking system. You have to go
to their web site to opt out.
I wish they would just be a telecom company and transport bits without
inspection or modification.
Harold
Quote from email:
How it works
The program uses information about websites you visit and apps you use on
your mobile device to help us better understand your interests. This helps
us personalize our communications with you, give you more relevant product
and service recommendations, and develop plans, services and offers that
are more appealing to you.
To be very clear, this information is used only by Verizon; we do not sell
this information to others for them to use for their own advertising.
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Not sent from an iPhone.
Message-ID: <b45329b4-b8b8-ae8c-e385-c1b5871d062e@ionary.com>
Date: 4 Dec 2021 14:28:52 -0500
From: "Fred Goldstein" <fQRMgoldstein@ionary.com>
Subject: Re: FCC R&O concerning pole attachments
On 12/3/2021 11:03 AM, Moderator wrote:
> On 1 Dec 2021 21:40:24 -0500
> John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote
>
>> But that's not what the article says. WRE is refusing to handle pole
attachment
>> applications, claiming that it's too hard or they're overwhelmed, which is
absurd.
>> If they can put up the poles, they can bleeping well handle attachments to
them.
>>
>> There also seeems to be an argument about the price, a fairly technical one
>> about depreciation rates, but Charter is not asking for free access.
> There's more to my concern then just one or two poles in Winslow Arizona.
>
> The FCC has just published its Repor & Order on the subject, and (IMHO)
> they make clear that the ordinary folks who paid for the poles by
> giving up their rights of way are going to get shafted.
>
> https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-18-111A1.pdf
>
That order was released in August, 2018, so it was only "just" published
for very large values of "just". It has almost nothing to do with rights
of way. It allows one-touch make ready, to speed up the make-ready
process for new attachers where it would not pose risks to existing
attachers, and sets new deadlines for attachment processes. It also
allows attachers to overlash to their own attachments without prior
approval of the pole owner. The idea is to speed up fiber builds, which
are often held up by the slow attachment process.
***** Moderator's Note *****
>From what I've sen of the federal government's attitudes toward
efficiency, three years *IS* "just published!"
Bill Horne
Moderator
Message-ID: <soet82$prb$3@dont-email.me>
Date: 4 Dec 2021 00:10:32 -0500
From: "Michael Trew" <michael.trew@att.net>
Subject: Verizon Wireless to pay $1.35 million fine to settle U.S.
privacy probe
Verizon Communications Inc VZ.N will pay a $1.35 million fine and
agreed to a three-year consent decree after the Federal Communications
Commission said on Monday it found the company's wireless unit
violated the privacy of its users.
Verizon Wireless agreed to get consumer consent before sending data
about "supercookies" from its more than 100 million users, under a
settlement. The largest U.S. mobile company inserted unique tracking
codes in its users traffic for advertising purposes.
Supercookies are unique, undeletable identifiers inserted into web
traffic to identify customers in order to deliver targeted ads from
Verizon and others.
The FCC said Verizon Wireless failed to disclose the practice from
late 2012 until 2014, violating a 2010 FCC regulation on Internet
transparency.
The FCC also said the supercookies overrode consumers privacy
practices they had set on web browsers, which led some advocates to
call it a "zombie cookie."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-verizon-fcc-settlement/verizon-wireless-to-pay-1-35-million-fine-to-settle-u-s-privacy-probe-idUSKCN0W91W7
