---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190214151704.GA12606@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:17:04 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Flooding causes outages of telephone service in Ohio WARREN - Some CenturyLink customers in Warren and Leavittsburg have been experiencing network outages affecting internet and voice services since Friday, according to Stephanie Meisse, communications manager at CenturyLink. The outages are affecting both residences and businesses, and are the result of damage to underground cables in manholes caused by continued flooding, she said. http://www.tribtoday.com/news/local-news/2019/02/flooding-causes-outages-of-telephone-service/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190214152755.GA12674@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:27:55 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Selling 911 location data is illegal, but US carriers reportedly did it anyway AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint sale of GPS data called "unquestionably illegal." By Jon Brodkin Three of the four major wireless carriers have been accused of breaking US law by selling 911 location data to third parties. "Telecom giants broke the law by selling detailed location data" that was "meant for use only by emergency services," consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge said last week in a blog post that urged the Federal Communications Commission to punish the carriers. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/02/att-t-mobile-sprint-reportedly-broke-us-law-by-selling-911-location-data/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190214152114.GA12640@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:21:15 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: In Wake Of Verizon Flub, New Law Would Ban Wireless Throttling Of First Responders from the ill-communication dept Thu, Feb 14th 2019 By Karl Bode Last summer Verizon got caught in a PR shitstorm after it throttled the wireless data connection of a California fire department -- just as they were fighting one of the biggest forest fires in California history. When the firefighters complained to Verizon about the throttling (which occurs on all of Verizon's "unlimited but not really" data plans), instead of fixing the issue Verizon tried to upsell the department to a more expensive plan. While some responsibility lies with the department for not understanding the data connection they'd bought, Verizon ultimately admitted that throttling any first responders violated the company's policies and should have never happened. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190212/07315041575/wake-verizon-flub-new-law-would-ban-wireless-throttling-first-responders.shtml -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <F6EFFE9F-5CA3-4DCB-BA19-7BF31CA912FB@roscom.com> Date: 13 Feb 2019 19:58:50 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a phone scammer -- and wins Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a phone scammer - and wins Scammer took hundreds of thousands of dollars from more than 30 victims. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/02/phone-scammer-jailed-after-trying-to-extort-50k-from-ex-fbi-cia-director/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 15 Feb 2019