---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <9309FD4C-A04A-4EB0-A85E-162283D75D0B@roscom.com> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 01:00:24 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Should You Charge Your Phone Overnight? http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/22/technology/personaltech/charge-phone-overnight.html Leaving your phone plugged in when its battery is already fully charged shouldn't be bad for it. Except that the act of charging can itself hurt our phones. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20160824023614.GA15776@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 22:36:15 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon sues Appleton, WI over cell tower By Madeleine Behr APPLETON - Verizon Wireless has sued the city after the Appleton Common Council rejected the company's bid for a cell tower permit in July. "The basis for the Common Council's denial of the Special Use Permit Application is both groundless and in direct conflict with Wisconsin law," Verizon Wireless and two other plantiffs argue in the civil complaint. --- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) The Telecom Digest depends on contributions from readers like John Lewandowski. We are grateful for their support. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20160824022755.GA15751@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 22:27:55 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: T-Mobile fourth in latest RootMetrics report T-Mobile shows improvements in new RootMetrics report, but finishes fourth overall. By Alex Wagner RootMetrics today published its Mobile Network Performance in the U.S. report for the first half of 2016. In this test, RootMetrics says that it drove 265,386 miles and performed 3,676,470 tests, including tests conducted within the 125 most populous metro areas across the U.S. RootMetrics also notes that to conduct its tests, it uses "leading Android-based smartphones." Starting in the first half of 2016, which is today's report, RootMetrics used T-Mobile's VoLTE for its calling tests as well as AT&T's VoLTE when it was available. http://www.tmonews.com/2016/08/t-mobile-shows-improvements-new-rootmetrics-report/ --- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) The Telecom Digest depends on contributions from readers like John Levine. We are grateful for their support. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20160824024435.GA16055@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 22:44:35 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon Toys With Risky App Revenue Plan Verizon Toys With Risky App Revenue Plan By David Jones Verizon's reported consideration of a plan to preinstall mobile apps from major retailers and financial firms on users' smartphones has drawn sharp criticism. The carrier reached out to numerous retail and finance brands with an offer to preload mobile apps on its Android phones for between US$1 and $2 per device, AdAge reported last week, citing unnamed ad agency executives. Verizon kept the offer to Android phones because the operating system, which is owned by Google, is capable of being customized by carriers. Apple's mobile OS, on the other hand, is closely controlled. http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83829.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20160824025129.GA16168@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 22:51:29 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Let's Commiserate About Verizon The Opinion Pages | LETTERS To the Editor: Re "On Hold With Verizon," by Delia Ephron (Op-Ed, Aug. 20): When are we going to realize that telecommunications companies have gotten too big and arrogant, and institute mandated levels of service and insist that failure to perform means big fines and refunds for the customers? Oh, I know: Never. It is the rare individual who cannot empathize with Ms. Ephron and her friends Deena and Marty, for whom the very thought of changing internet providers provokes meltdown anxiety. When AT&T mistakenly disconnected my internet because of a "clerical error" (canceling me instead of the customer who requested it), it took a whole week to restore service. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/opinion/lets-commiserate-about-verizon.html --- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email adress to write to me directly) The Telecom Digest depends on support from readers like John Levine. We're grateful for their help. ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Wed, 24 Aug 2016