---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180414013354.GA14774@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 21:33:54 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon: Cut fiber line caused Central Florida service outage By: Evan Axelbank TAMPA (FOX 13) - Verizon Wireless has confirmed the cause of a service outage that affected thousands of customers in Central Florida Thursday night into Friday morning. A representative from Verizon Wireless says a fiber line was cut, causing service to be disrupted at around 800 cell tower sites. http://www.fox13news.com/news/local-news/verizon-cut-fiber-line-caused-central-florida-service-outage -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180414081019.GA16108@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 04:10:19 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CenturyLink Drops TV Services, May Ditch Residential Broadband By Carl Bode CenturyLink is what you might call a hot mess right now. The company's lagging broadband upgrades make it clear that residential customers across countless markets simply aren't a priority. That apathy has resulted in a steady stream of customer defections as customers in many un-upgraded markets flee to faster cable speeds. While millions of customers within its footprint struggle with sub-6 Mbps speeds, CenturyLink has shifted its focus toward enterprise service with its recent acquisition of Level 3. CenturyLink is also facing a wave of lawsuits over fraudulent billing, after a whistleblower revealed the company routinely overbills its users and upgrades users to services they neither wanted nor asked for. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/CenturyLink-Drops-TV-Services-May-Ditch-Residential-Broadband-141598 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180414081429.GA16148@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 04:14:29 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CenturyLink, Frontier and Windstream to narrow broadband losses in Q1, says analyst By Sean Buckley CenturyLink, Frontier and Windstream - three service providers that are in the middle of the wireline ILEC pack - will see broadband fortunes start to turn slightly in the first quarter with a smaller amount of subscriber losses. While these service providers won't report their first quarter earnings until later this month and in May, the ILEC industry segment has continued to trail the cable industry, which has consistently added subscribers for the past several quarters. Cable continues to enjoy a nice lead in the broadband addition race, a factor related to MSOs' ongoing DOCSIS 3.1 build-outs. That trend will likely be seen in the first quarter results. https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/centurylink-frontier-and-windstream-to-narrow-broadband-losses-q1-says-analyst -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180414081909.GA16177@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 04:19:09 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: PTC: A La Carte Is Path to AT&T-TW Approval By John Eggerton The Parents Television Council has some advice for AT&T in its effort to buy Time Warner: Offer its programming a la carte. PTC has long argued (immediately remedy the anti-consumer sentiment the cable industry is so frequently accused of) that programmers should give viewers more choice over channels to weed out what it sees as family-unfriendly fare by offering channels a la carte. https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/ptc-a-la-carte-is-path-to-at-t-tw-approval -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <E3A91736-D143-4802-A149-4B922D1CEB00@roscom.com> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:55:45 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: After Cambridge Analytica, Privacy Experts Get to Say "I Told You So" After Cambridge Analytica, Privacy Experts Get to Say "I Told You So" The scandal over how Facebook let a consulting firm gain access to user information is ushering in a new era for privacy experts, whose warnings about online privacy have long gone unheeded. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/technology/privacy-researchers-facebook.html ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 14 Apr 2018