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The Telecom Digest for February 15, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 44 : "text" Format
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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:19:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Joseph Singer <joeofseattle@yahoo.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Many users apparently don't care for CenturyLink
Message-ID: <1329272358.99164.YahooMailClassic@web161502.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:05:36 -0500 Bill Horne wrote:
> According to a website called, appropriately enough, pissedconsumer.com,
> CenturyLink isn't making many friends lately. Of course, annonymous
> statements have to be taken with a grain of salt, but here's a tip: when
> people make basic grammar and spelling mistakes, it's often due to anger.
Former Northwest Bell/PNWB/USWest users can't get a break. When LCI/Qwest
took over USWest (one of the companies formed when the "consent decree"
happened in January of 1984) hasn't been able to catch a break. Early
on they decided that wireless wasn't a service that would really do them
any good, so they sold USWest Cellular to Airtouch PLC, which became Verizon.
A few years later they decided that maybe they should try wireless again, so
they made a whole new network and operated a CDMA PCS network. Then, Qwest
took over, and I guess they didn't know how to operate a PCS network either,
and sold the plant to Sprint -- eventually all customers became part of
Verizon Wireless. But that's neither here nor there. I knew from the
outset, when Qwest got sold out to CenturyLink, that we'd have a situation
not entirely dissimilar to what happened in northern New England -- where
Verizon bowed out in favor of FairPoint. We've got a company that doesn't
know how to run a big area like USWest/Qwest had; the ongoing screwing up
of orders, and all the other stuff that's going on with CL. I was never
so glad to go completely wireless back in June of 2000 and knowing that
I'd never have to deal with Qwest or their successor again.
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:54:47 -0500
From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: [LightSquared] F.C.C. Bars the Use of Airwaves for a Broadband Plan
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1202142353370.5941@panix1.panix.com>
[ Several readers submitted items on this N.Y. Times article. ]
[ I chose to run 'just one'; this one provided the best ]
[ summary. -- rdb, temp. mod. ]
F.C.C. Bars the Use of Airwaves for a Broadband Plan
A proposed wireless broadband network that would provide voice and
Internet service using airwaves once reserved for satellite-telephone
transmissions should be shelved because it interferes with GPS technology,
the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday.
...
The news appears to squash the near-term hopes for the network pushed by
LightSquared, a Virginia company that is majority-owned by Philip Falcone,
a New York hedge fund manager.
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rest:
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/business/media/fcc-bars-airwave-use-for-broadband-plan.html
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