---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180329053352.GA5516@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 01:33:52 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Frontier Communications Reaches Tentative Deal With CWA Frontier Communications Corporation recently reached a new tentative deal with the Communications Workers of America (Local) 142. This puts an end to the three-week long strike by almost 1,400 Frontier Communications employees in West Virginia and Ashburn. The newly formed agreement has been sent to the employees for their consent. [The] CWA Union's Local 142 covers 1,400 employees in West Virginia and Ashburn. The previous contract expired on Mar 3, 2018. https://www.zacks.com/stock/news/297144/frontier-communications-reaches-tentative-deal-with-cwa -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <D8B4BEDB-C909-494E-9D85-6CBEEB4E291B@roscom.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:17:50 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: A Cyberattack Hobbles Atlanta, and Security Experts Shudder A Cyberattack Hobbles Atlanta, and Security Experts Shudder Atlanta's city government has been struggling for days with ransomware that has crippled its computer networks and forced it back to doing business with ink and paper. By Alan Blinder and Nicole Perlroth ATLANTA - The City of Atlanta's 8,000 employees got the word on Tuesday that they had been waiting for: It was O.K. to turn their computers on. But as the city government's desktops, hard drives and printers flickered back to life for the first time in five days, residents still could not pay their traffic tickets or water bills online, or report potholes or graffiti on a city website. Travelers at the world's busiest airport still could not use the free Wi-Fi. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/us/cyberattack-atlanta-ransomware.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <f2bfd147-6760-411b-b781-c2fe77ec2b91@googlegroups.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:12:04 -0700 (PDT) From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: History--PAX advertising brochures The following are links is to various advertising brochures from various manufactures for dial Private-Automatic-Exchanges. They were generally intended for use as a separate private telephone system for use _within_ an organization. They were not interconnected with outside Bell Telephone lines. They were usually sold, not rented, and over the long run saved money, especially in large organizations that had their own maintenance staff. Many school districts, transit companies, and industrial sites used them for internal communications. All of the brochures are from the Telephone Collectors International Library, http://www.telephonecollectors.info/ Automatic Electric Company of Chicago--general brochure, 1952: http://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/catalogs-manuals-educational-docs-by-company/automatic-electric-2/3680-ae-brochure-p-a-x-business-telephone-system North Electric Company, of Galion, Ohio: http://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/catalogs-manuals-educational-docs-by-company/north-electric-2/3676-north-brochure-all-relay-automatic-telephone-systems Stromberg-Carlson, Rochester, NY, 1960: http://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/document-repository/catalogs-manuals/stromberg-carlson/12274-sc-brochure-dialmaster-pax-1960s-020514 Kellogg Switchboard & Supply of Chicago. Note on the last page there is a photo of the company's plant. In years past, many industrial companies proudly included such pictures in their advertising brochures. http://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php/browse/catalogs-manuals-educational-docs-by-company/kellogg-1/12229-kellogg-sop-brochure-may59 As an aside, Kellogg was located at 6650 S. Cicero in Chicago. According to google-streetview, that site is now a Dunkin Donuts. So many industrial sites have been razed or abandoned. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180329054614.GA5623@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 01:46:14 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Lobbyist threatens suits against any state the passes a Net Neutrality law Lobbyist for AT&T and Verizon publishes a threat to "aggressively" sue any states that pass net neutrality laws Jonathan Spalter is the CEO of Ustelecom, a telcoms lobby group funded by AT&T and Verizon; in an op-ed on the lobbyists' site, he threatened to "aggressively" sue any state that passes net neutrality rules. Much of Spalter's editorial consists of a hymn to federalism, in which he repeatedly asserts that states do not have the right to make telcoms policy, because that is the exclusive province of the federal government. https://boingboing.net/2018/03/28/menacing-corporate-lickspittle.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180329055136.GA5792@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 01:51:36 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T judge warns parties to hurry to make June 21 deadline By Jessica Toonkel (Reuters) U.S. judge Richard Leon on Wednesday warned attorneys for the Department of Justice and AT&T Inc to speed up the trial over the proposed merger of the large telecommunications company and Time Warner Inc, or risk missing the June 21 deadline to complete the deal. Under the agreement, which had been extended from April 22, either company can pull out if the deal announced in October 2016 is not completed by the deadline. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-time-warner-m-a-at-t/att-judge-warns-parties-to-hurry-to-make-june-21-deadline-idUSKBN1H42Y3 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 29 Mar 2018