---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190225192912.GA5008@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 19:29:12 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: A Verizon store salesman gave me a startling opinion on the Galaxy Fold By Chris Matyszczyk ... I went to a Bay Area Verizon store to bathe in the S10's look and feel. The loud, graphic displays confronted me the minute I walked in the door. A slightly less loud, less graphic salesman greeted me. https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-verizon-store-salesman-gave-me-a-withering-opinion-on-the-galaxy-fold/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190225185419.GA4947@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 18:54:19 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T travels the open-source road to help build an industry ecosystem by Mike Robuck In order to drive down costs and ramp up the speed of innovation, AT&T is taking an open source-first approach to virtualization. While some service providers, such as CenturyLink, pick and choose elements of open source, AT&T is all in. AT&T has its fingers in various open source groups, many of which it has championed in the early going before turning them over to an open source community. https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/at-t-travels-open-source-road-to-help-build-industry-ecosystem -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190225185952.GA4985@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 18:59:52 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Pine, AZ residents weigh in on Fossil Creek plan by Gary Morris More than 100 residents of Rim Country attended the first of three meetings that Coconino National Forest officials are sponsoring to present the latest draft of the Fossil Creek Comprehensive River Management Plan. Nearly a dozen Forest Service officials also attended the meeting on Feb. 11 where they presented six plan alternatives, all designed to protect the creek from overuse. ... In the fall, due to a lack of [road] maintenance, monsoonal rains washed away a large section of the road, exposing four CenturyLink cables. Had they been severed, all Internet and phone service in Rim Country would have gone down. It took 28 days for CenturyLink to obtain a permit from the Forest Service to make the temporary repairs. https://www.paysonroundup.com/news/local/pine-residents-weigh-in-fossil-creek-plan/article_b1aeee92-9ce6-5990-99f7-adf642b81e2f.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <D5E8A0E4-0061-4ABD-8B82-9DE606B92E20@roscom.com> Date: 24 Feb 2019 10:19:51 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: New Bill Would Stop Internet Service Providers From Screwing You With Hidden Fees Like the airline and hotel industries, the cable TV and broadband sector has a masterful knack for obnoxious, hidden fees. From fees for simply trying to pay your bill to broadband surcharges based entirely on fluff and nonsense, the industry has spent years advertising one rate, only to hit you with a significantly higher price once your bill actually comes due. A new bill being proposed by Senator Ed Markey and Representative Anna Eshoo is attempting to put an end to the practice. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j57ddb/new-bill-would-stop-internet-service-providers-from-screwing-you-with-hidden-fees ***** Moderator's Note ***** No, Virginia, there is no capitol-hill Santa Claus. This bill is just that: a proposed law which has a much chance of getting by the cable lobby as universal health care has of passing the Health-Insurance lobby or meaningful immigration reform has of winning approval from agribusiness. I like Ed Markey. I understand that he has to play a political game and pretend to be working on big-concept issues, but this is the same process that Barney Frank used to refer to as "Slopping the Hogs." Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Tue, 26 Feb 2019