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Volume 32 : Issue 54 : "text" Format
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Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 17:37:00 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon Outages Strand Lower Manhattan Businesses 4 Months After Sandy
Message-ID: <20130302223659.GA23784@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Verizon Outages Strand Lower Manhattan Businesses 4 Months After Sandy
Gerry Smith
Gerald.Smith@huffingtonpost.com
Potential customers don't need to ask whether The Wayland, a chic bar
in Manhattan's East Village, accepts credit cards. They can just read
the sign -- and sense the frustration -- taped to the door.
"STILL Cash Only. Sorry for the inconvenience," it says. "Thanks For
Nothing Verizon (And Hurricane Sandy)."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/verizon-sandy-new-york_n_2782664.html
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Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 23:25:23 +0000 (UTC)
From: wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Verizon Outages Strand Lower Manhattan Businesses 4 Months After Sandy
Message-ID: <kgu1p3$5q2$1@grapevine.csail.mit.edu>
In article <20130302223659.GA23784@telecom.csail.mit.edu>,
Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> wrote:
>Potential customers don't need to ask whether The Wayland, a chic bar
>in Manhattan's East Village, accepts credit cards. They can just read
>the sign -- and sense the frustration -- taped to the door.
>
>"STILL Cash Only. Sorry for the inconvenience," it says. "Thanks For
>Nothing Verizon (And Hurricane Sandy)."
What, exactly, does Verizon have to do with accepting credit cards?
It's not like Verizon is the only way to get an Internet connection in
lower Manhattan, particularly for something as low-bandwidth as
credit-card transaction processing. (Hell, Verizon's own wireless
joint venture can probably provide sufficient network for that.)
-GAWollman
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Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 04:09:06 +0000 (UTC)
From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Verizon Outages Strand Lower Manhattan Businesses 4 Months After Sandy
Message-ID: <kguid1$mpj$1@reader1.panix.com>
In <20130302223659.GA23784@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> writes:
>Verizon Outages Strand Lower Manhattan Businesses 4 Months After Sandy
>Gerry Smith
>Gerald.Smith@huffingtonpost.com
>Potential customers don't need to ask whether The Wayland, a chic bar
>in Manhattan's East Village, accepts credit cards. They can just read
>the sign -- and sense the frustration -- taped to the door.
>"STILL Cash Only. Sorry for the inconvenience," it says. "Thanks For
>Nothing Verizon (And Hurricane Sandy)."
>
>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/verizon-sandy-new-york_n_2782664.html
>
There are numerous options available for businesses in that
area to set up for credit cards. Their decision to hold off
on implementing any of them is their own choice.
Just as one of many examples there's the "Square Up" system
which workd fine in any of the post-Sandy area with cell
coverage.
One of the businesses I frequent was still blacked out
and operating only during "sunlight hours", but was handling
credit card transactions through them.
(I actually brought these folk a 6 kw generator and lots
of gasoline after a couple of days of the blackout, so
they had power about a day before Con Ed re-lit the area).
But yes, there are credit card options a'plenty.
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Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 17:43:17 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon lining up roaming partners for 4G service
Message-ID: <20130302224317.GA24588@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
(Reuters) - Verizon Wireless expects to sign its first international
roaming agreement later this year for customers of its fastest
wireless service who travel overseas, according to a top executive for
the No. 1 U.S. mobile provider.
While Verizon Wireless has 200 partnerships with overseas operators
for its older, third-generation mobile service, it has not yet been
able to set up agreements for its fourth-generation Long Term
Evolution (LTE) data service, which was first offered in the United
States in late 2010.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/25/us-verizonwireless-roaming-idUSBRE91O11Y20130225
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Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 19:14:15 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: CenturyLink may have been bilked for over $200,000
Message-ID: <20130303001415.GA6036@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
By Michael McFall | The Salt Lake Tribune
Mar 01 2013 01:01 am
Prosecutors have charged seven men and women for billing other people
for two Davis County jail inmates' collect calls for more than three
years.
The seven were charged Friday in 2nd District Court with identity
fraud, communications fraud and a pattern of unlawful activity, all
felonies. Five of defendants used other people's personal information
to open CenturyLink accounts so that the two jail inmates could make
collect calls and bill the victims, said Clearfield Police
Sgt. Kyle Jeffries on Friday.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/55882065-78/centurylink-jail-poulsen-victims.html.csp
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Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 19:07:42 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: CenturyLink launches Prism cable service
Message-ID: <20130303000742.GA4943@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
CenturyLink launches Prism cable service in El Paso County
CenturyLink has launched its Prism TV service in parts of El Paso
County and plans to expand it to much of the Colorado Springs area
by midsummer, becoming the area's first major cable television
competitor to Comcast, other than satellite services, since 1990.
The Louisiana-based telecommunications giant is offering television
packages starting at $39.99 a month for 130 channels on a
promotional rate that increases by $20 after the first six months
and requires a one-year commitment. CenturyLink also is offering an
expanded package with 62 additional channels for $55.99 for six
months and a top package that includes 55 premium movie channels
for $98.99 a month; both are promotional rates that also increase
by $20 after six months and require a one-year commitment.
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_22701357/centurylink-launches-prism-cable-service-el-paso-county
-or-
http://goo.gl/YCCZK
Here's the question: is this only for FTTH customers, or is it a
general Internet offering that's available to anyone?
Bill
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