---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20200314163440.GA8019@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 16:34:40 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: AT&T tells its gigantic workforce, including WarnerMedia, to work from home Retail employees, installers, and CNN's TV staff are still expected to show up By Chris Welch AT&T is the latest enormous company to instruct its employees to start working from home if they haven't already. The work-from-home edict does not apply to AT&T's retail employees, equipment installers, and CNN's TV talent and production staff, according to CNN. But AT&T's massive corporate workforce (including those at WarnerMedia) are being asked to work from home for the time being - as long as their role allows for it. https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/13/21178991/att-warnermedia-cnn-staff-work-from-home-coronaviru -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200314164112.GA8055@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 16:41:12 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: AT&T, Verizon, and more pledge not to penalize customers for missed payments during the COVID-19 outbreak As part of the FCC's 'Keep Americans Connected Pledge' By Cohen Coberly What just happened? Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today announced a new policy intended to keep Americans online during the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The policy, dubbed the Keep Americans Connected Pledge, will aid many individuals who may soon find themselves unable to work due to direct COVID-19 infection, or collateral damage caused by the virus (such as workplace closures). https://www.techspot.com/news/84394-att-verizon-more-pledge-not-penalize-customers-missed.html -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200314164543.GA8153@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 16:45:43 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: One man lost his life savings in a SIM hack. Here's how you can try to protect yourself Rob Ross lost his life savings when a hacker tricked his cell phone provider into an illegal SIM swap. Here's how you can protect yourself. By Donie O'Sullivan Robert Ross was sitting in his San Francisco home office in October 2018 when he noticed the bars on his phone had disappeared and he had no cell coverage. A few hours later, he had lost $1 million. https://www.wtva.com/content/national/568768122.html?ref=122 -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <barmar-4E5DCD.00095514032020@reader.eternal-september.org> Date: 14 Mar 2020 00:09:55 -0400 From: "Barry Margolin" <barmar@alum.mit.edu> Subject: Re: AT&T waives data cap during coronavirus; Comcast keeps charging overage fees In article <20200313155841.GA764@telecom.csail.mit.edu>, Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.remove-this.remove-this.telecom-digest.org> wrote: > We asked 10 ISPs if they'll waive caps as pandemic forces people to > stay home. > > By Jon Brodkin > > Comcast, the biggest home-Internet provider in the United States, > hasn't told us whether it will suspend data caps, so the caps are > apparently still being enforced for now. I've been working from home for years, and I've never used more than 80 GB in a month. Comcast's usage cap is more than 10 times that much. The only thing that uses huge amounts of bandwidth is videos. So unless your job is video production, working from home isn't going to add much to your usage. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 15 Mar 2020