---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <q6egec$q68$1@pcls7.std.com> Date: 14 Mar 2019 21:18:04 +0000 From: "Michael Moroney" <moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com> Subject: Re: T4 and T5 carrier systems "Fred Goldstein" <invalid@see.sig.telecom-digest.org> writes: When things went to fiber, what kind of signalling was used? Was it digital from the start and similar to the DS1/DS3 signalling? Is what used now all packets like on a computer LAN? Also what about Verizon FIOS to a home, do they piggtback the phone/TV on the IP link, or perhaps the other way around the piggyback the IP on a TV band like cable companies do? >***** Moderator's Note ***** >Lost-in-the-mists-of-time department: IIRC, T5 was never implemented, >because fiber was being rolled out and there weren't enough coax >cables. But, I may be wrong: does anyone recall when fiber became >commonly available? I have no idea about "commonly available", but I do remember ads from the 70s where they show this big fat zillion conductor copper phone cable being yanked into a conduit, followed by this tiny thin cable with light coming out of its end, coming back out of the conduit, and ATT boasting that it could carry many times more phone calls than the copper cable. Must be early-mid 70s. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <02BABFD0-6FE1-4CF0-B85B-96F7AB898C50@roscom.com> Date: 15 Mar 2019 10:05:26 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: FCC Tackles 911 Dilemma: What Floor Are You Calling From? FCC Tackles 911 Dilemma: What Floor Are You Calling From? Telecom regulator wants carriers to send emergency operators a caller's altitude within 10 feet https://www.wsj.com/articles/fcc-tackles-911-dilemma-what-floor-are-you-calling-from-11552653206 ------------------------------ Message-ID: <3252C2C7-2368-4AF8-90A4-1BCDB38409D5@roscom.com> Date: 14 Mar 2019 12:06:29 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: T-Mobile Reveals More Location Data Abuse Following Questions from Senator Wyden Since January, Motherboard has reported on a series of abuses with phone location data from major US telecommunications companies. Most recently, we reported how stalkers and people with a history of domestic violence were tricking telecom companies into providing location data by simply impersonating US law enforcement officials on the phone or over email. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3mjvy/tmobile-phone-location-data-abuse-senator-ron-wyden ------------------------------ Message-ID: <899555D2-58E6-4861-A32E-836CCEA3EF0F@roscom.com> Date: 13 Mar 2019 23:17:21 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: John Oliver fights robocalls... by robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC John Oliver fights robocalls - by robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC Pai has helped robocallers by failing to issue strict rules, Oliver argues. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/john-oliver-fights-robocalls-by-robocalling-ajit-pai-and-the-fcc/ ***** Moderator's Note ***** Guilty-pleasure-department: this one just deserves to be shared. Know what? I think we should all call the FCC, every Monday morning at 9 AM, and ask them what they're doing about robocalls. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 16 Mar 2019