---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190201045106.GA24717@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 23:51:06 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: U.S. Senators Call for a Hearing to Examine Consequences of T-Mobile/Sprint Merger (This is from the CWA Newsletter) - - - - - - - - As CWAers Highlight Potential Tennessee Job Loss, U.S. Senators Call for a Hearing to Examine Consequences of T-Mobile/Sprint Merger CWAers' hard work across the country to raise concerns about the proposed T-Mobile/Sprint merger with their elected officials is paying off! Last week, U.S. Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), all members of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, called on Chairman Roger Wicker (R- Miss.) and Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) to schedule a Senate hearing on the proposed T-Mobile/Sprint merger. A hearing in the House of Representatives is scheduled for February 13. -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190201051154.GA24815@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 00:11:54 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Net neutrality fight returns to court By Harper Neidig Net neutrality supporters will get their day in court this week as they challenge the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) repeal of the popular Obama-era internet rules. A panel of federal appeals court judges will hear oral arguments Friday in a lawsuit challenging the FCC's deregulation of the broadband industry. The court date comes more than a year after the agency voted to roll back the rules requiring internet service providers to treat all web traffic equally. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/427763-net-neutrality-fight-returns-to-court -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190201050835.GA24784@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 00:08:35 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: WV PSC is telling Frontier to stick to schedule going forward for ordered audit By Shauna Johnson CHARLESTON, W.Va. - March 4th is the deadline for bids from companies interested in reviewing the landline operations of Frontier Communications through a Focused Management Audit the state Public Service Commission has ordered. Earlier this month, a request for proposals for the audit went out late which prompted a PSC response. http://wvmetronews.com/2019/01/31/psc-is-telling-frontier-to-stick-to-schedule-going-forward-for-ordered-audit/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 01 Feb 2019