---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190201154457.GA26416@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 10:44:57 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Extreme Cold Freezes Out Internet, Phones in Madison County, Ind. A fiber-optic cable hut stopped working as a result of freezing conditions, disrupting the Internet connections and phone service across two local governments. Emergency services were not impacted.` By Laura Arwood (TNS) - The severe cold froze the internal systems of Madison County and the city of Anderson on Wednesday. Sometime between 6 and 7 a.m. Wednesday, a fiber-optic cable hut stopped working, causing the two governments' internal phones and Internet servers to crash, Madison County IT Director Lisa Cannon said. http://www.govtech.com/network/Extreme-Cold-Freezes-Out-Internet-Phones-in-Madison-County-Ind.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190201160935.GA26522@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 11:09:35 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Sprint touts network investments as it reports a $141M loss Sprint has deployed expanded band coverage at 2.5 GHz, to about 75% of its macro network sites - up from about 50% of sites at this time last year - and it plans to focus on its massive multiple-input multiple- output deployment this year, company executives said on the carrier's quarterly call with investors. CEO Michel Combes said that Sprint has added expanded its 800 MHz, 1.9 GHz and 2.5 GHz coverage. The 800 MHz coverage was added to "thousands of sites, primarily in the Southwest markets" to extend Sprint's coverage as it completed rebanding efforts, he said. https://www.rcrwireless.com/20190131/carriers/sprint-touts-network-investment-reports-loss -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190201155559.GA26471@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 10:55:59 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Suicide leaves grieving Stratford, CT family with questions By Tara O'Neill STRATFORD Edith Bell said her son's body was still warm when she found him hanging from a tree in her backyard on Jan. 8. About an hour earlier, she said, 20-year-old Demarius Bell came into her room and they briefly spoke. She said that when he left, he closed the door - which she always leaves open. Feeling like something was off, she said, she went to check on him. https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Suicide-leaves-grieving-Stratford-family-with-13577419.php -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ***** Moderator's Note ***** I hesitate to cite a story such as this one - but E911 /is/ the critical infrastructure for EMS, and when it fails, people /do/ die. The question remains: why did the 911 outage occur? Never mind that some computer card sent "bad packets" out - that's a symptom, not the disease. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190201160449.GA26504@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 11:04:49 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: The Big Story: Must See TV by Ryan Joe During AT&T's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Randall Stephenson noted that 2019 will be "a year of development" for its ad unit Xandr, so the real proof-in-the-pudding will start to show in 2020. But already, Xandr has something to show for itself. As of January, AT&T's first party data is available via Xandr for activation on Turner. https://adexchanger.com/podcast/the-big-story/the-big-story-must-see-tv/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ***** Moderator's Note ***** The first thing they tought me in my first business course at college was that you have to ask yourself - "Who is our customer and what is our product?" Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 02 Feb 2019