---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20191230020033.GA22093@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 02:00:33 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: WV: Cedarville residents raise concern after losing phone service nearly two weeks ago "I got up that morning and checked my email. Got online, on Facebook for a little bit. One of my neighbors had posted asking if anyone else's phone was out. I went and checked ours and sure enough it was out," said Sherry Smith, a Gilmer County resident. Phone service went out eleven days ago. Since then, neighbors have tried to get Frontier Communications to fix the lines. https://www.wdtv.com/content/news/Eleven-days-and-counting-since--566523571.html -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20191230013634.GA21718@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 01:36:34 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: The best phones of 2020 Since 5G connectivity to folding screens, telephone companies are innovating faster than ever to capitalize on unlimited offers of data, calls and text messages from many operators. While the Samsung Galaxy line and the Apple iPhone are the best choice of many people, there are other cell phone manufacturers who are looking for their place with their own fantastic phones. Android phones with facial recognition, smartphones with longer battery life and a growing range of camera options create greater competition, and all this benefits us users, who now have many excellent phones to choose from, in one Wide range of prices and plans. https://newsdio.com/the-best-phones-of-2020/16135/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <4f9edbab-7e82-41c2-b91d-aaba1ae8282f@googlegroups.com> Date: 30 Dec 2019 14:08:04 -0800 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: Axios: Amid Stalled H1B Visa Reform, AT&T Ships Jobs Out On Sunday, December 29, 2019 at 7:12:26 PM UTC-5, Moderator wrote: > By Eric Mack > > AT&T is forcing American workers to train their replacements, be it > foreigners through an outsourcing partner or cheaper domestic workers, > according to Axios. > > https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/at-t-jobs-worker-visas/2019/12/29/id/947643/ In the past AT&T bragged about its workforce. https://archive.org/details/the-saturday-evening-post-1946-08-31/page/n119 They also ran lots of ads about the family atmosphere--how multiple generations worked for the telephone company. Now they brag to Wall Street about staff reductions. Sad. It's very hard to get a real person at the phone companies these days. They have automated front ends that make it very difficult every time you call. Very frustrating if you have a line problem. We're supposed to have "free market competition", which was the whole point of Divestiture. But we have no real choice, and the few choices we do have all treat consumers like crap. We were better off under regulation, where at least the phoneco had to answer to the state PUC. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <b5e725be-e5a7-4e39-8e14-63e440b77269@googlegroups.com> Date: 29 Dec 2019 22:09:45 -0800 From: "Bill Horne" <malasQsiRmiMlation@gmail.com> Subject: Re: How Your Phone Betrays Democracy On Friday, December 27, 2019 at 8:21:36 PM UTC-5, Monty Solomon wrote: > How Your Phone Betrays Democracy > > You protest, they watch. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/21/opinion/location-data-democracy-protests.html I'm puzzled by the NY Times' sudden urge to start pointing out how cellphones are so dangerous to those needing privacy. ISTM that this has been a long-standing problem, and yet I've never seen anything about it anywhere before. There were probably dozens of warnings in the security trade press, but this is the first major outlet that has done a series on it. -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20191230014632.GA21874@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 01:46:32 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Washington: People with CenturyLink service experiencing phone outage in Ocean Shores People with CenturyLink service experiencing phone outage in Ocean Shores OCEAN SHORES, Wash. - People who live in the Ocean Shores area are experiencing a phone/911 outage, according to Grays Harbor County Emergency Management. Officials said the outage began at 5:54 p.m. and is affecting residential and VOIP phones serviced by CenturyLink. -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Tue, 31 Dec 2019