---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20200224190523.GA3551@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 19:05:23 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: CWA reaches tentative agreement with AT&T Southwest Mobility The Communications Workers of America (CWA) reached a tentative agreement with AT&T on a new four-year contract for Southwest Mobility workers, according to a release. The CWA AT&T Southwest Mobility contract covers technicians, call center customer support workers, and representatives at AT&T's retail stores in Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas. https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2020/02/23/cwa-reaches-tentative-agreement-with-att-southwest-mobility/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200224190853.GA3590@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 19:08:53 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: AT&T Proposes Tweaks to FCC's C-Band Auction Plan WASHINGTON - While AT&T generally approves of the FCC's proposed plan for making C-band spectrum previously used for fixed satellite service available for 5G development, it does have a few tweaks that it sees as beneficial to the transition process. At the top of the list is the proposal of payouts to satellite operators who accept an accelerated relocation from their current position on the C-band spectrum to the upper 200 MHz. The FCC says it plans to provide incentive payments to those operators who take on an accelerated relocation that could eventually total billions of dollars of reimbursements, which service licensees would be required to pay a portion of, AT&T says. AT&T poses the question then, what would service licensees receive in return? https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/atandt-proposes-tweaks-to-fccs-c-band-auction-plan -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <15CB33AA-4AB5-42E7-8E85-04E9ACE63641@roscom.com> Date: 23 Feb 2020 14:10:57 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: 911 operators couldn't trace the location of a dying student's phone. It's a growing issue. 911 operators couldn't trace the location of a dying student's phone. It's a growing issue. The college student's garbled 911 call is the latest tragedy to plague emergency call systems. Yeming Shen called 911 on Feb. 10. He was alone in his Troy, N.Y., apartment, dying of the flu. But the garbled call was unintelligible to the operators, and police couldn't pinpoint the phone's location. For 45 minutes after Shen called 911, five police officers, three firefighters and a police dog searched in vain for the student. All they had was a general area encompassing two apartment buildings. They eventually gave up without finding Shen. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/22/student-died-911-call-location/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Tue, 25 Feb 2020