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The Telecom Digest for April 3, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 84 : "text" Format
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Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:10:50 -0500
From: Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Q.: Credo mobile: who are they?
Message-ID: <jlb1rg$tfe$1@dont-email.me>
On 4/1/2012 2:23 PM, tlvp wrote:
> Postal flier reached me yesterday, from "Credo mobile", seemingly a MVNO
> reselling Sprint wireless service, and portraying itself as anti-tea-party
> in keeping with its activist-oriented sales hook.
>
> Who -- or what -- are they, really? In league with Working Assets? Other?
>
They are a new (2007) name for Working Assets. Same operation.
Dave
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 22:33:42 -0700
From: Mark Kaminsky <kaminsky@kaminsky.org>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Q.: Credo mobile: who are they?
Message-ID: <4f793a35$0$49316$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>
On 04/01/2012 12:23 PM, tlvp wrote:
> Postal flier reached me yesterday, from "Credo mobile", seemingly a MVNO
> reselling Sprint wireless service, and portraying itself as anti-tea-party
> in keeping with its activist-oriented sales hook.
>
> Who -- or what -- are they, really? In league with Working Assets? Other?
>
> TIA; and cheers, -- tlvp
A number of years ago, Working Assets (a "socially conscious" mutual
fund) started to provide long distance service. That service morphed
into Credo - I'm not sure if they spun out the business or sold it, but
the transition was seamless from the customer point of view. Later,
Credo started to provide wireless service as Credo Mobile.
As far as I know, Working Assets itself went out of business a few
years ago, when the CEO (?) became ill, and needed to retire.
They found another "socially conscious" fund to take over the
assets (the Working Assets mutual funds were terminated, with the
money going into similar funds managed by the other organization).
For what it is worth, I have been a satisfied Credo customer for years,
but have not tried Credo Mobile.
Mark
Date: 02 Apr 2012 17:30:51 GMT
From: Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Q.: Credo mobile: who are they?
Message-ID: <4f79e24b$0$49358$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>
In article <4f793a35$0$49316$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
Mark Kaminsky <kaminsky@kaminsky.org> wrote:
>
>As far as I know, Working Assets itself went out of business a few
>years ago, when the CEO (?) became ill, and needed to retire.
>They found another "socially conscious" fund to take over the
>assets (the Working Assets mutual funds were terminated, with the
>money going into similar funds managed by the other organization).
Maybe the original mutual fund disappeared, but the credit cards
that give part of their earnings to nonprofits are still around:
http://www.workingassets.com/
Patty
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 23:26:11 -0400
From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: CSIRO (Australian group) settles/wins another WIFI case
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1204012320230.21013@panix5.panix.com>
[Register.co.uk]
Champagne at CSIRO after WiFi patent settlement
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
has won another round of its long-running patent battle with US carriers
AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile offering a settlement worth more than $AU220
million. (That's about $229 USD)
----
rest:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/01/csiro_settles_with_carriers/
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:17:29 -0500
From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: CSIRO (Australian group) settles/wins another WIFI case
Message-ID: <IMydnW6I9uOkcOTSnZ2dnUVZ_sudnZ2d@posted.nuvoxcommunications>
In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.1204012320230.21013@panix5.panix.com>,
danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
>[Register.co.uk]
>
>Champagne at CSIRO after WiFi patent settlement
>
>Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
>has won another round of its long-running patent battle with US carriers
>AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile offering a settlement worth more than $AU220
>million. (That's about $229 USD)
> ----
>rest:
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/01/csiro_settles_with_carriers/
>
>
One has to note the release date.
See also RFC 6592 and 6593.
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6592.txt
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6593.txt
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:55:53 -0500
From: Jim Haynes <jhaynes@cavern.uark.edu>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: "Account Services"
Message-ID: <slrnjnk4ip.4oe.jhaynes@Frances.localdomain>
I've noticed that if I just set the phone down when they call they
detect it right away and I'm back to dial tone. But if I punch 1
then put the phone down they don't seem to disconnect right away - I
don't get dial tone back until I hang up. So I wonder if that causes
them any annoyance by tying up their equipment a little.
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