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| Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:25:34 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: The government is spying on cell phones
Message-ID: <20141114212534.GA21379@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
The government has special airplanes designed to spy on peoples' cell phones
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the federal government has a
secret, airplane-based surveillance system that is capable of sweeping
up information from thousands of cell phones at a time.
While the device is intended to spy on criminal and terrorist
suspects, the program also sweeps up private information from many
innocent people.
The Justice Department says the program complies with the law and is
subject to judicial oversight, but some civil libertarians are
skeptical.
http://www.vox.com/2014/11/13/7217557/cell-phone-airplane-spying
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Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
When the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving slow
Go ask Alice, I think she'll know
- Jefferson Airplane
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| Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 08:12:51 -0500
From: "Elmo P. Shagnasty" <elmop@nastydesigns.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: The Map Apps That Move You in the Right Direction
Message-ID: <elmop-A5EA5F.08125114112014@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>
In article <0767F8F8-651F-41AA-AAF0-56AC1C9BB6CB@roscom.com>,
Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> wrote:
> It's been a long time since most of us carried a stand-alone GPS
> device around with us.
Maybe not when traveling, but in my own car? It's still there.
Because nothing beats a tool dedicated to that particular task.
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| Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:34:06 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon Wireless makes canceling contracts up to $70 more expensive
Message-ID: <m45sg4$778$1@dont-email.me>
$350 early termination fees now remain $350 until eight months into a
contract.
by Jon Brodkin
Verizon Wireless just made it more expensive to cancel service by
delaying monthly reductions in early termination fees (ETFs) until the
eighth month of a contract.
Until today, the early termination fees of $350 for new smartphone
contracts declined $10 each month. Customers who signed contracts before
today will still see their ETFs decline the first month and all months
thereafter. But customers who sign up today or later will not see any
reductions until the eighth month, Verizon's updated customer agreement
says. That means that after seven months, a customer's ETF would remain
at $350 instead of declining to $280.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/11/verizon-wireless-makes-canceling-contracts-up-to-70-more-expensive/
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Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
Money so they say
Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're
giving none away
- Pink Floyd
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| Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:41:40 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Montana PSC investigating CenturyLink phone problems
Message-ID: <m45sua$8qc$1@dont-email.me>
Montana's Public Service Commission wants to hear from CenturyLink
customers as part of its investigation into problems with the
company's landline telephone service.
An informal investigation found that telecommunications company's
quality of service violated PSC rules that require timely repairs.
http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/state/psc-investigating-centurylink-phone-problems/article_831fdbee-6c27-11e4-9dd8-636491179654.html
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http://goo.gl/BDESOT
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Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
Well, I call you up on the phone: nobody's at home.
Then I do my usual thing: I let the telephone ring and ring and ring.
I'm standing at a phone booth, coping with the ugly truth.
- Loudon Wainwright III
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| Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 13:49:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Comcast, Charter, 14 other companies form Streaming Video Alliance
Message-ID: <9b1a8fca-7b54-4cf4-8e5d-35ec06208077@googlegroups.com>
By Daniel Frankel, FierceTelecom, November 14, 2014
Conspicuously launching without the two biggest operators in the
Internet video market, a group of 17 MVPDs, programmers and technology
vendors have formed a new industry trade group, the Streaming Video
Alliance.
The group, which was partly organized by Frost & Sullivan analyst Dan
Rayburn, includes leading pay-TV operators Comcast, Charter Communi-
cations and Liberty Global, as well as a who's who of other video
industry heavyweights: Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Viacom, Epix, Fox
Networks Group, Korea Telecom, Level 3 Communications, Limelight
Networks, Major League Baseball Advanced Media, Qwilt, Telecom Italia,
Telstra, Ustream, Wowza Media Systems and Yahoo!.
Netflix and Google, which together consume up to half of all Internet
traffic with their video streams, are not in the group of 17.
http://www.fiercecable.com/story/comcast-charter-14-other-companies-form-streaming-video-alliance/2014-11-14?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
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http://tinyurl.com/mss6m6a
Neal McLain
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