---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <9cfcfa39-cb72-3ca1-5b9c-fc7df2c0a0a4@horne.net> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 19:34:29 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T offers wireless internet to 15 Mississippi counties JACKSON, Miss. - AT&T says it's now serving parts of 15 Mississippi counties with a fixed wireless internet service aimed at rural residents. The Dallas-based company said the service relies on cell service from a nearby tower captured by a professionally mounted antenna. http://wreg.com/2017/07/19/att-offers-wireless-internet-to-15-mississippi-counties/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <7de163bc-49c1-4750-2177-b5a8df678521@horne.net> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 19:41:29 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T and Verizon want free rein to put new wireless transmitters in your neighborhood. By George Skelton There's a classic brawl raging in the California Legislature between a bankrolling private interest and several toothless local governments over wireless expansion. It's a fight being waged essentially under the radar. This subject isn't sexy like a gas-tax increase, universal healthcare or a so-called "sanctuary state" for immigrants here illegally. So it hasn't gotten much public attention. That's when special interests tend to win. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-skelton-telecom-att-verizon-california-bill-20170710-story.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <e0253be9-0a48-c84e-b273-70e0a61e2a4b@horne.net> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 19:37:23 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Bid to relax restrictions for AT&T boxes in SF suffers setback By Joshua Sabatini A proposal to relax the rules for AT&T and the installation of its controversial utility boxes in San Francisco suffered a setback Tuesday at the Board of Supervisors and was referred back to a committee. In 2011, the board voted to allow AT&T to install the boxes, and years later in subsequent legislation, mandated certain requirements such as landscaping and art murals. But AT&T is threatening to sue The City over those requirements after permit applications to site some of its boxes were rejected by the Department of Public Works and are being appealed to the Board of Appeals. http://www.sfexaminer.com/bid-relax-restrictions-att-boxes-sf-suffers-setback/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <0601be1d-5d6f-34a6-f6d6-bbfdd14cee23@horne.net> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 19:24:40 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T lets 82-year-old woman stop paying for phone she no longer has By Jae C. Hong - AP A stint in the hospital is bad, and losing your phone or having it stolen from you while there probably doesn't help the healing process. Getting billed for the phone for several months after its disappearance was enough to put 82-year-old Emerita Phillips "in tears." http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/ask/sos/sos-at-t-lets--year-old-woman-stop-paying/article_cc5be622-f093-5339-b3d9-6ddd28488af1.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Mon, 24 Jul 2017