---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20160915011110.GA27562@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 21:11:10 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CenturyLink employees receive memo regarding layoffs MONROE, La. CenturyLink announces that it will make some layoffs before the end of the year. Annmarie Sartor, spokesperson for the company, says employees received a company-wide memo Wednesday from CenturyLink's CEO Glenn Post about the layoffs. The letter stated that the company will be making a 7-8 percent reduction in the workforce in the near future. http://www.myarklamiss.com/news/local-news/centurylink-employees-receive-memo-regarding-layoffs -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20160915010752.GA27526@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 21:07:52 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: NYC chastises Verizon over slow FiOS rollout By Mike Snider, USA Today New York City wants its broadband and is taking on Verizon for failing to deliver. City officials have told Verizon Communications that it considers the telecommunications provider in default of its agreement to provide broadband and pay-TV services throughout the city. Verizon delivers pay-TV and high-speed broadband service over its fiberoptic FiOS network to more than 7 million subscribers, primarily in the Northeast U.S. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/09/14/nyc-verizon-has-not-met-fios-coverage-targets/90347810/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20160915010316.GA27506@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 21:03:16 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: FCC reviewing Verizon data-overage complaints By Teresa Dixon Murray, The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Federal Communications Commission is looking into widespread billing problems at Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless carrier. The regulatory agency is receiving complaints about Verizon following a series of Plain Dealer stories in the last 10 days that raised questions about unexplainable explosions in cellular data use among thousands of Verizon customers nationwide. In many cases, the supposed increases in the use of data on smartphones led to over-limit fees or caused people to buy larger a data plan to avoid fees. http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2016/09/fcc_probing_verizon_data_overa.html -- Bill Horne ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 16 Sep 2016