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The Telecom Digest for March 14, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 69 : "text" Format
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:23:10 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: The Age Of Apps
Message-ID: <p06240858cb85872ecdff@[10.0.1.3]>
The Age Of Apps
On Point with Tom Ashbrook
Monday, March 12, 2012
A new iPad and the avalanche of "apps," all over. We'll look at
everyday life in the age of apps.
It's amazing what the apps on a smart-phone or tablet can now do. And
how ubiquitous they're becoming. Apps to play. Apps to learn. Apps
to share and eat and track and socialize. Point your phone at sign
in Spanish. Click. It tells you what the sign says - in English.
We've got Google apps and Kindle apps and Apple apps all over. Last
week, Chunli Fu in Qingdao, China, downloaded the world's 25
billionth Apple app - a game called "Where's my Water?" Apps are
bringing computer power deep into the world.
This hour, On Point: the newest, the coolest, and life in the age of apps.
-Tom Ashbrook
Guests
Hiawatha Bray, tech reporter and columnist for the Boston Globe.
Christina Bonnington, staff writer for Wired Digital's blog "Gadget Lab".
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/03/12/the-age-of-apps
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:03:22 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Anti-Verizon sites not hard to find
Message-ID: <jjp5ac$ac4$1@dont-email.me>
I just came across several anti-verizon sites, and I pass them along
with a large grain of salt.
The first, which, among other things, has the following entry:
I have experienced the worse customer service in response to any
company I have encountered. Verizon at times has even broken the
law in how they treated me, their good customer. And what does a
little guy like me do? Build a website of course; a website to
warn others of the evils of Verizon.
I'll include a "short" url, because the actual website name isn't
suitable for family viewing.
See
http://goo.gl/nmveo
There is also a Facebook page called - well, you'll get the
idea. Again, the name isn't for children's eyes.
http://goo.gl/oS8Wm
Last but certainly not least, here's a UTube page that features a
disappointed customer doing batting practice with a cell phone: as
before, the actual title is a bit too risqué for publication. You've
been warned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9MhQtcb5M4
Bill
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Bill Horne
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:37:00 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: CenturyLink subscribers claims she had to pay previous tenant's bill
Message-ID: <jjp3ov$3c2$1@dont-email.me>
On 3/11/2012 12:00 PM, Bill Horne wrote:
> Here's a new twist on debt collection: according to a complaint shown
> below, CenturyLink has demanded that a new tenant pay the previous
> tenant's bill in order to get phone service.
>
> I call and order the basic $17.00 per month service and the line
> backer for my life alert system. I am told I have to pay the
> previous tenants bill before they will even talk to me. So I pay
> that and get the service ordered ...
>
> Rest is at
>
> http://centurylink.pissedconsumer.com/century-link-sucks-20120309303584.html
>
CenturyLink appears to be taking note of customer complaints on the
above site: the following reply was posted yesterday.
1. Written by @CenturyLinkHelp on March 12, 2012 from Denver,
Colorado, US
Hey Retheridge, sorry to hear about your experience. Not typical.
Generally speaking the only reason to pay a balance from a prior
resident is if it was an "endebted household" which means you would
have had to reside there or been listed on the previous account. If
that was not the case we can get this corrected. ...
It remains to be seen if the "@CenturyLinkHelp" group is able to
address the issue, or if it is interested only in spin control.
Bill
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:42:10 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Falcone's LightSquared Hires Legal Team to Fight Regulators
Message-ID: <jjp42k$4e3$1@dont-email.me>
Falcone's LightSquared Hires Legal Team to Fight Regulators
by Scott Moritz and Todd Shields - Mar 13, 2012 6:12 PM ET .
Billionaire Philip Falcone's LightSquared Inc. hired litigators
Theodore Olson and Eugene Scalia of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
as it gears up for a possible legal battle with U.S. regulators.
The wireless venture, facing a regulatory rejection for its business
plan, is seeking to make sure it doesn't lose its multibillion-dollar
investment due to the government's decision, Olson, a former U.S.
solicitor general, said today in an e-mailed statement.
Rest at
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-13/falcone-s-lightsquared-hires-legal-team-to-fight-regulators-1-.html
-or-
http://goo.gl/eo2YS
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Bill Horne
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:24:28 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Alleged AT&T Employee shown on tape at harvest time
Message-ID: <jjp6ht$eas$1@dont-email.me>
This one, I can't resist. It's a UTube shot of an alleged AT&T employee
doing, um, alleged bad deeds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhB1WhMjfUI&NR=1&feature=fvwp
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Bill Horne
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