---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20200417155935.GA31226@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:59:35 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Mississippi Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds Ruling To Award C Spire With State Technology Contract By C Spire RIDGELAND, Miss., April 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- C Spire today announced that its new contract with the Mississippi Department of Information Technology Services (ITS) will move forward without any further delays. This exciting news follows a unanimous decision by the Mississippi State Supreme Court denying AT&T's appeal and ushers in a new era of technology access for Mississippians, which will employ C Spire's fiber technology to improve the state's communications capabilities. https://www.leader-call.com/news/state/mississippi-supreme-court-unanimously-upholds-ruling-to-award-c-spire-with-state-technology-contract/article_dad822d7-d718-54ef-b54a-b2ba589cb34a.html -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <315C0710-9139-4929-BF76-D9DD4679CE2B@roscom.com> Date: 15 Apr 2020 10:17:31 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: 'Scared to Death' by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System "Scared to Death" by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System Lawyers and a Silicon Valley start-up have found ways to flood the system with claims, so companies are looking to thwart a process they created. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/business/arbitration-overload.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <B9494E7E-E119-41CC-9D73-D4FA6086E594@roscom.com> Date: 15 Apr 2020 10:17:02 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: AT&T loses key ruling in class action over unlimited-data throttling AT&T loses key ruling in class action over unlimited-data throttling AT&T's mandatory-arbitration clause is illegal in California, court rules. By Jon Brodkin T&T's mandatory-arbitration clause is unenforceable in a class-action case over AT&T's throttling of unlimited data, a panel of US appeals court judges ruled this week. The nearly five-year-old case has gone through twists and turns, with AT&T's forced-arbitration clause initially being upheld in March 2016. If that decision had stood, the customers would have been forced to have any complaints heard individually in arbitration. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/att-loses-key-ruling-in-class-action-over-unlimited-data-throttling/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 18 Apr 2020