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Message-ID: <n6h8aq$fjt$1@dont-email.me>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 15:19:05 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
Subject: Here's Why Verizon's "Better Matters" Ad Is Not Telling the
Whole Story
The company does have the best network just not by the margin it's
suggesting in its latest commercial.
It's possible to tell the truth while also being misleading.
For example it's true to say that one of my close relatives had a hall
of fame career in a popular sport. That however sounds better than the
reality because it was my grandmother and it's for candlepin bowling as
an organizer not for her bowling prowess. So, everything in the first
sentence is true, but it's really only a piece of the story.
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/01/04/here-why-verizons-better-network-ad-is-not-telling.aspx
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Bill Horne
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Message-ID: <n6h9m3$l02$1@dont-email.me>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 15:42:07 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
Subject: AT&T & Verizon File to Block Kushnick from the FCC's
"Special Access" Data... Again.
by Bruce Kushnick
On October 15th, 2002 -- over 13 years ago -- AT&T filed a Petition with
the FCC to investigate the "special access" services that are controlled
by the "Bell" companies, now AT&T, Verizon and Centurylink. The above
quote supplies two of the section headings from the Petition's Table of
Contents.
Fast Forward: During the summer of 2015, the FCC announced that it had
collected new information about special access services from users and
that special access was now a $40 billion dollar market. However, in
order to view this new information, you must sign a letter of
confidentiality.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/att-slams-att-att--verizo_b_8914806.html
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Message-ID: <4a2f8bc2-9b45-4f52-9b9d-2f9a4dc1625d@googlegroups.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 10:19:28 -0800 (PST)
From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: History--60 years ago
Happy New Year, everyone!
2016 will mark the 60th anniversary of two momentous events in
telephone history:
January 1956: AT&T settles anti-trust suit with Justice Dept.
It would license existing patents without royalty, and future
patents at reasonable royalties. AT&T would exit all businesses
not related to the communications field (other than government
work), such as Westrex motion picture sound equipment. Last,
Western Electric would maintain uniform cost accounting to
ensure fair prices for its products sold to Bell companies.
One key patent now royalty free was for transistors.
--New York Times, Jan 25, 1956, pg 1.
(Also, in 1956, IBM settled an anti-trust with the
Justice Dept with a Consent Decree. Among other terms,
IBM would also license out its patents for free or
reasonable royalties.)
September 1956: Inauguration of transatlantic voice cable.
This allowed much more reliable overseas telephone calls than
the radio system then in use. Originally it had 35 voice
channels and 1 telegraph channel (for 22 telegraph lines).
At the end, through various means, it had 72 voice channels.
It was retired in 1978.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAT-1
***** Moderator's Note *****
Ah, the good old days of TASI and telegraph. I can feel the heat of
the soldering iron and smell the rosin!
Sometimes, I wish there were no Clark Belt, no LNA's, no DS3 lines, no
fiber optic. The technical world of telephone used to be limited to
L-5 and SF units and negative-impedance repeaters and the soak
currents of relays I knew how to adjust and repair.
Bill Horne
Moderator
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End of telecom Digest Wed, 06 Jan 2016