---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20200403124154.GA17773@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 12:41:54 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: The Sprint / T-Mobile merger is complete, so what happens now? An FAQ The deal is done and Sprint is now officially part of T-Mobile. By Jerry Hildenbrand and Samuel Contreras Despite all of the opposition and debate, T-Mobile has finally completed its purchase of Sprint. Whether this ends up being a good thing for the customer remains to be seen, but in the short term, the combined company under the T-Mobile name will be a real competitor for AT&T and Verizon, especially when it comes to 5G. https://www.androidcentral.com/t-mobile-sprint-faq -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200402105528.GA8093@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 10:55:28 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Disconnected and Disadvantaged: Schools Race to Give Students Access Millions of children don't have internet access at home but schools are getting creative to deliver distance learning tools. By Lauren Camera When the coronavirus prompted the swift closures of school districts across the country and education officials began devising distance learning plans, the technology team for Charleston's public schools knew they had a problem: the roughly 4,000 students in their district without internet at home and no way to access online instruction. https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2020-04-01/schools-rush-to-get-students-internet-access-during-coronavirus-pandemic -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200403130733.GA17920@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 13:07:33 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Chemerinsky: SCOTUS Comcast case is a serious loss for civil rights BY Erwin Chemerinsky The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on March 23 in Comcast v. National Association of African American Owned Media is a significant setback for civil rights plaintiffs. https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/chemerinsky-a-serious-loss-for-civil-rights -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <ED9337D1-71AB-4A99-BF7D-73FAF07F05F6@roscom.com> Date: 2 Apr 2020 21:52:50 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Dispelling Zoom Bugbears: What You Need to Know About the Latest Zoom Vulnerabilities As the COVID-19 global pandemic moved the whole knowledge-working world abruptly to work-from-home, virtual meetings are rapidly becoming de rigueur for pretty much everyone I know. Well, almost everyone. Turns out, all this recent success has painted a huge target on Zoom's back, and people are falling all over themselves every time a new security issue is discovered in the platform, no matter how minor. Because of this, I wanted to take a little bit of your time - and mine - to discuss the Zoom-related scuttlebutt that has surfaced over the past few days. But, if you don't have time to get into it, the TL;DR summary is best summed up as: ... https://blog.rapid7.com/2020/04/02/dispelling-zoom-bugbears-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-latest-zoom-vulnerabilities/ ***** Moderator's Note ***** This is a product-placement ad for Zoom. Normally, I would hit "delete," but I've been asked to use Zoom for a video conference, even though I know nothing about the software and would prefer to use Google Hangouts. You see where that goes, of course: COVID-19 makes strange bedfellows. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 04 Apr 2020