---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <b77b8aab-4c52-b5e2-a102-f856cd4431c1@ionary.com> Date: 28 Feb 2020 19:13:36 -0500 From: "Fred Goldstein" <invalid@see.sig.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: 911 operators couldn't trace the location of a dying student's phone. It's a growing issue. On 2/23/2020 2:10 PM, Monty Solomon wrote: > 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/ None of the posts here picked up on a detail that some press reports had. The man was Chinese. His phone was Chinese, with a Chinese SIM card, roaming in the US. It was not built to US standards and not part of a US carrier. So it did not have the aGPS that US phones usually have. -- Fred R. Goldstein k1io fred "at" ionary.com +1 617 795 2701 ***** Moderator's Note ***** In my darker moments, I wonder if the freedom our constitution guarantees to the press has been abused by those whom it was meant to protect. It seems to me that our TV network news organization are now headlining a generation of blow-dried airheads: men and women whose only talent is the ability to look sincere on television. The TV anchors of old - World War II and Korean war veterans who had actually risked their lives in search of truth - have now been replaced by actors whose only job is not to tell the whole truth, but rather to sell as much soap as they can while generating as little controversy as possible. I'll make a prediction: if that shoddy and once-over-lightly report is ever given serious criticism, the blow-dried airheads who will stand in front of the cameras while they read the sincere words someone else wrote for them will inevitably say that the phone was made by Huawei. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200229192827.GA24235@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 19:28:27 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: T-Mobile customers are the most likely to get 5G on their new Galaxy S20 phones - but there's a catch Antonio Villas-Boas, Business Insider US I was able to connect to T-Mobile's long-range 5G network on a small, windy country road, where AT&T and Verizon's 5G networks are nowhere to be found. [Reasons]: * T-Mobile customers will have a greater chance of connecting to a 5G network with the new Galaxy S20 phones than AT&T and Verizon customers. * That's because T-Mobile has a long range 5G network compared to AT&T's and Verizon's 5G short-range networks. * But the trade-off with longer range 5G networks like T-Mobile's is slower 5G speeds. So while a T-Mobile customer may get 5G where AT&T or Verizon customers don't, they're not getting the blistering speeds that you may have heard about with 5G. https://www.businessinsider.my/samsung-galaxy-s20-users-will-see-more-5g-t-mobile-2020-2-2 -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200229193231.GA24270@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 19:32:31 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: FCC votes to auction C-band satellite spectrum for 5G use FCC votes to auction C-band satellite spectrum for 5G use - and potentially pay satellite operators billions for the trouble. By Richard Lawler FCC chairman Ajit Pai has been pressing for an auction of "mid-band" wireless spectrum that could be useful for expanding the reach of 5G, and on Friday the commission voted to approve rules for just such a redistribution. The rules cover "C-Band" spectrum that satellite companies like Intelsat, SES SA and Telesat are currently using, and include payment incentives for those companies to speed plans to shift operations away from those frequencies by dates in 2021 and 2023. Otherwise, the spectrum will need to be freed up no later than December 5th, 2025. https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/29/fcc-5g-auction/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 01 Mar 2020