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The Telecom Digest for March 4, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 60 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
FCC asking for public input re: shutting down cell service (danny burstein)
Verizon questioned - locked bootload software in Android devices (Bill Horne)
Verizon explains locked bootloader stance in letter to FCC (Bill Horne)

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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 02:55:14 -0500
From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: FCC asking for public input re: shutting down cell service 
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1203030252110.16206@panix5.panix.com>

This is a followup to that decision by BART last year to turn off
their cellphone repeaters that extended the networks into the BART
system. Lots of people got upset...

  STATEMENT FROM FCC CHAIRMAN JULIUS GENACHOWSKI ON WIRELESS SERVICE
INTERRUPTIONS.  STMT. News Media Contact: Neil Grace at 
(202) 418-0506, email: Neil.Grace@fcc.gov OCHJG

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-312760A1.doc

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-312760A1.pdf

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-312760A1.txt

  Released: 03/01/2012.  COMMISSION SEEKS COMMENT ON CERTAIN WIRELESS
SERVICE INTERRUPTIONS. (DA No.  12-311). (Dkt No 12-52 ) FCC seeks
comment on concerns and issues related to intentional interruptions of
wireless service by government authorities for the purpose of ensuring
public safety. Comments Due: 04/30/2012. Reply Comments Due:
05/30/2012.

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-12-311A1.doc

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-12-311A1.pdf

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-12-311A1.txt




Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:04:12 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon questioned - locked bootload software in Android devices 
Message-ID: <jiubhv$htn$1@dont-email.me>

Verizon write letter in regards to bootloaders, claims they could cause 
a 'Negative Impact' to customers.

by David Pena
March 1, 2012

Oh Verizon. What are we going to do with you? The boys over at
Droid-Life intercepted a letter from one of their users to Verizon
Wireless. The user claims that the locked bootloaders that Verizon
loves to put on their phones, violates the "Block C License" . You got
to love Big Red's response, as they first talk themselves up before
getting to the point of why they are phone Nazis.

First and foremost, they begin the letter by stroking their "customer
service ego", by saying that they have established excellence to the
customer experience. Then they go on saying that if any customer has
any questions that they...blah blah BLAH! When they get to the point,
they simply state that any changes in the phone's software can cause a
negative impact to how the device connects to the network. In their
words, "alter the Verizon Wireless Experience". Like it is a freakin'
3D ride at Disneyland.

http://androidspin.com/2012/03/01/verizon-writes-letter-in-regards-to-bootloaders-claims-they-could-cause-a-negative-impact-to-customers/

-or-

http://goo.gl/CdNGX

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)




Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:16:04 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon explains locked bootloader stance in letter to FCC 
Message-ID: <jiuc87$qoc$1@dont-email.me>

by Dan Graziano - March 2, 2012

In a response to the FCC following a formal complaint, Verizon
Wireless has outlined the company's policy on locked bootloaders. An
irate Droid-Life reader became fed up with the carrier's consistent
locking of bootloaders on its flagship devices and decided to file a
complaint with the Federal Communications Commission. The reader
claimed Verizon's policy was in violation of the "Block C license," an
agreement the company made when it purchased its 700MHz LTE spectrum.

http://www.bgr.com/tag/verizon/

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)






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