---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <nfvkq5$n7l$2@dont-email.me> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:45:10 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Will the FCC Stop Verizon & AT&T=E2=80=99s Manipulation = of Financial Accounting & Special Access (BDS) Overcharges? By Bruce Kushnick On April 28th, 2016, the FCC started the process to take actions to fix the broken $40 billion special access market, now called "Broadband Data Services" (BDS). As we discussed in our "primer", special access services are NOT special, but are based on basic, aging copper, as well as fiber optic wires that are part of the state utility networks and are mostly provided and controlled by the incumbent phone companies - AT&T, Verizon and Centurylink. And these are the wires that go to the cell sites for wireless calls or are used by businesses for broadband. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/will-the-fcc-stop-verizon_b_9802890.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <nfvk8n$m1k$1@dont-email.me> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:35:50 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon claims sabotage on network and cables By Brooke Crothers Verizon says equipment sabotage spiked in the wake of a strike by Verizon workers, now entering its third week. Thousands of Verizon customers have been cut off from "critical services" because of "criminals" who have "damaged or destroyed critical network facilities," according to an announcement last week. That announcement came after a Verizon union went on strike on April 13. http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/04/28/verizon-claims-sabotage-on-network-and-cables.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <nfvjos$k4r$1@dont-email.me> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:27:23 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon offers union its 'last, best and final offer' In a statement released Thursday, Verizon said that it had met with union leaders and presented them with a contract after more than 10 months of negotiation. The news comes more than two weeks after 36,000 workers went on strike -- the largest since 2011. According to Verizon, the proposal includes a 7.5% wage increase and protection from layoffs. http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/28/news/companies/verizon-strike-contract/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <nfvki6$n7l$1@dont-email.me> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 08:40:53 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Does The Verizon Strike Signal A Resurgence Of Labor? BY Arne L. Kalleberg Opinion The ongoing strike by nearly 40,000 Verizon workers - the largest work stoppage in the United States in recent years - is a bold fight against the kind of strategies that big corporations have used for decades to maximize profits at the expense of workers. In the case of Verizon, the tactics the company has already used, and is pushing to intensify in its new contract, include offshoring good jobs to countries such as the Philippines, India and Mexico; outsourcing work domestically to low-wage, non-union contractors; forcibly transferring workers away from their families; and fiercely combating employees trying to organize in the company's almost entirely non-union wireless side. http://www.newsweek.com/does-verizon-strike-signal-resurgence-labor-453532 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <8b0fcdfc-b150-4b91-9572-94895e159bce@googlegroups.com> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:27:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com> Subject: Nashville Gets Its Google Fiber By Laura Hamilton, CED, 04/28/2016 Nashville's been wondering where exactly Google Fiber was going to launch in the city, and yesterday got the news that the 1 Gbps service is available in four luxury buildings. The company now lists those rollouts at its website here. Plans and pricing were also posted. The company has plans to launch in other apartment buildings in Nashville, with service to single-family residences to reportedly come later. Google Fiber also had previously announced it would offer Gigabit Internet for free to some low-income housing in the city. Comcast and AT&T also are competing in 1 Gbps service game in Nashville. http://www.cedmagazine.com/news/2016/04/nashville-gets-its-google-fiber?et_cid=3D5257292&et_rid=3D652835436&location=3Dtop&et_cid=3D5257292&et_rid=3D652835436 -or- http://tinyurl.com/NashGoogFiber Neal McLain ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 30 Apr 2016