---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190304110220.GA11293@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 11:02:20 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CT federal delegation wants AT&T to rethink employee relocation plan By Luther Turmelle Connecticut's congressional delegation is asking the chief executive officer of AT&T to reconsider a plan that would force 117 of the company's employees who are based in Meriden to relocate to Georgia or Tennessee or face losing their jobs . https://www.nhregister.com/business/article/CT-federal-delegation-asks-AT-T-to-rethink-13653055.php -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190304110627.GA11315@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 11:06:27 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T workers want Congress to investigate company's use of tax cut benefits By: Courtney Shaw CLEVELAND - AT&T workers are asking Ohio members of Congress to support an investigation of the companies use of tax cut benefits. Last week, workers represented by the Communications Workers of America met with several members of Ohio's congressional delegation. https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/at-t-workers-want-congress-to-investigate-companies-use-of-tax-cut-benefits -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190304105338.GA11270@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 10:53:38 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Frontier, under state investigation for its service, has received over $100 million in federal grants Frontier disputes state inquiry that found it failed customers, may have misused grants. By Mike Hughlett Frontier Communications has received over $100 million in federal grants to improve rural broadband in Minnesota over the past four years, yet complaints about its internet service suffuse a state investigation of the company. http://www.startribune.com/frontier-under-state-investigation-for-its-service-has-received-over-100-million-in-federal-grants/506632742/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <q5hj20$ks9$1@pcls7.std.com> Date: 3 Mar 2019 22:04:48 +0000 From: "Michael Moroney" <moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com> Subject: Re: Crucial.com Cancels Legitimate Orders "Fred Atkinson" <fatkinson.remove-this@and-this-too.mishmash.com> writes: >> Over the last weekend, I ordered thirty-two gigabytes of memory >> for my personal Windows 2016 server I am running on my home network. >> I gave the vendor a shipping address where I routinely receive >> personal deliveries. ><snip> > Well, they told me to send my order through and it would go through >this time so long as I used the same address I used on the last one. >So I did. > Guess what? They canceled it, too! [apparently because shipping address didn't match PO Box billing address] Don't most online sites ask for both a billing address and a shipping address for this very reason? Crucial doesn't? ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Tue, 05 Mar 2019