---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20200325235906.GA5459@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 23:59:06 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Shreveport phone connections to Paratransit severed SporTran's main fiber line connecting the agencies' telephone system was cut Wednesday morning. As a result, telephone service to all SporTran facilities, including LiftLine (paratransit), is still down, according to information provided in a press release on the matter. AT&T and CenturyLink are said to be working to restore service as quickly as possible. https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2020/03/25/telephone-lines-sportran-down/5079193002/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200326001817.GA5612@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:18:17 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Verizon Must Face Strike Workers' Overtime Suit In DC Verizon Communications Inc. hoped to convince a New York federal judge to kill a suit accusing it of stiffing strike replacement workers on overtime pay with its argument that the claims didn't belong in the Empire State, but it was rewarded with a transfer instead. Since the trio of strike workers bringing the proposed class action claim the wage violations happened in Washington, D.C., where they worked, the case belongs there, U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe ruled Tuesday. https://www.law360.com/classaction/articles/1256619/verizon-must-face-strike-workers-overtime-suit-in-dc -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200326000433.GA5516@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:04:33 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: YouTube, Netflix Begin Slowing Services to Handle Coronavirus Strain The internet should generally hold up under the load of a pandemic. But content providers say they're taking extra precautions just to make sure. By Karl Bode As millions of Americans hunker down to slow the spread of COVID-19, gaming, teleconferencing, and video streaming are putting added stress on the internet. And while telecom executives tell Motherboard the U.S. internet will likely weather the storm, many content providers are taking extra precautions to make sure that's true. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74nna/youtube-netflix-slowing-services-download-speeds-coronavirus -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 27 Mar 2020