---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <D9570465-A090-44E0-A359-9FD6FE4D0EB2@roscom.com> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 01:56:39 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Net neutrality fight isn't over yet Net neutrality fight isn't over yet Usually when you see a crowd outside the Verizon retail store on Boylston Street, it means Apple's rolling out a new smartphone. But the group that gathered outside the Boston store last Thursday was much bigger than the one iPhones usually attract, and made up of people who were anything but happy. The crowd of about 100 had come to protest, not mainly against Verizon, but rather the Federal Communications Commission. On Thursday it's expected to reverse the Obama administration's policy on "Net neutrality," the principle that all data moving over the Internet should be treated equally by broadband providers like Verizon. Similar protests were held Thursday in dozens of other US cities. https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/12/10/net-neutrality-fight-isn-over-yet/Zveti5fZaJ13NNM9pBJjfP/story.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <A6E05E5D-EDE8-4C62-A7FE-53F991B75CCF@roscom.com> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 01:55:10 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: What Will the End of Net Neutrality Do to America? What Will the End of Net Neutrality Do to America? The FCC votes in days and likely will repeal Obama-era rules on Net Neutrality, the doctrine which says that all legal Internet traffic should be equally accessible. What comes next? Next week, the FCC is set to repeal the concept of Net Neutrality. While the effects of that decision are unknown, it is easy to anticipate some of the possibilities - and none of them are good. So we're going to talk about the very idea of Net Neutrality, and then discuss the possible ramifications of its repeal. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-will-the-end-of-net-neutrality-do-to-america_us_5a2b5b00e4b0d7c3f26222e5 ------------------------------ Message-ID: <p0l63m$26c9$1@grapevine.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 05:46:30 +0000 (UTC) From: wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Re: Net neutrality fans speak up as FCC set to strike down rules In article <20171211010635.GA1502@telecom.csail.mit.edu>, Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> wrote: >By Tali Arbel > >Net neutrality is a simple concept but a dense and often technical >issue normally discussed in tech and telecom circles. Now it's hit the >mainstream. In fact, it's *so* mainstream that last week I received incoherent but grammatical English-language spam from a Russian anti-semitic hate group about it. No, I'm not joking. I haven't managed to figure out who investigates such things, and don't want to leave a long data trail looking into it myself, but if anyone can suggest an appropriate organization, I kept a copy of the spam. (Don't bother suggesting ADL or SPLC; I already checked there.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | "Act to avoid constraining the future; if you can, wollman@bimajority.org| act to remove constraint from the future. This is Opinions not shared by| a thing you can do, are able to do, to do together." my employers. | - Graydon Saunders, _A Succession of Bad Days_ (2015) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20171211162506.GA5697@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 11:25:06 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Selling iPhone X. T-Mobile and Verizon salespeople speak out Commentary: After visiting several different carrier stores, I had emails from all over the US, offering deep salesperson feelings BY Chris Matyszczyk It's been a pulsating few weeks. I've wandered around various carrier stores and Best Buy, learning about phones and failing to find a single salesperson to tell me that iPhone X is the best phone you can buy. Phone salespeople from all over America contacted me afterward. Some were sympathetic. https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-x-t-mobile-and-verizon-salespeople-explain-its-problems/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20171211163416.GA5715@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 11:34:17 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon skips California RFP bid, claims FirstNet, AT&T are 'Rigging the Game' By Donny Jackson Verizon reverses its public stance and does not bid on California's procurement seeking an alternative vendor to FirstNet in a potential "opt-out" scenario, citing "onerous" mandates from FirstNet and claiming that FirstNet and contractor AT&T are "rigging the game to stifle true competition." Last month, California issued a request for proposals (RFP) seeking vendors willing to build and maintain the LTE radio access network (RAN), if Gov. Jerry Brown decides to pursue the FirstNet "opt-out" alternative by the Dec. 28 deadline. The deadline for California bids was Wednesday. California officials told IWCE's Urgent Communications that state policy prohibits the release of the number of bidders or the identity of bidders during an active procurement. http://urgentcomm.com/ntiafirstnet/verizon-skips-california-rfp-bid-claims-firstnet-att-are-rigging-game -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20171211213524.GA7455@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:35:24 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T pushes lawmakers, state officials to block document release By Dave Gram The public safety communications project known as FirstNet has been criticized - even by some of the officials closely involved with it - as being shrouded in too much secrecy. Now the leak of two consultants' reviews of plans for the public safety broadband buildout has state officials and corporate lawyers scrambling to find the leaker and demand that the recipient of the leak return copies and not disseminate them further. https://vtdigger.org/2017/12/10/officials-lawyers-scramble-firstnet-document-release/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20171211220656.GA7556@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:06:56 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: FCC's copper retirement plans face repeal from nongovernmental organizations by Sean Buckley A four-part nongovernment organization (NGO) coalition has filed an appeal against the FCC's decision in November to remove some of the obligations for operators to notify customers when they stop servicing copper lines. Public Knowledge, the Greenlining Institute, the Utility Reform Network and the National Association of State Utility Advocates filed the petition for review with the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and asked the court to reverse the FCC's order and restore consumer protections. https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/fcc-s-copper-retirement-plans-face-repeal-from-non-governmental-organizations -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <981cbdaf-ba79-4784-99d5-5207cf150893@googlegroups.com> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:37:53 -0800 (PST) From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Pay-by-phone parking returns to Philadelphia The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that paying for parking by smartphone is coming back to Philadelphia. The parking app meterUP relaunched Monday, and the Philadelphia Parking Authority will be posting signs on streets where the app is usable in the coming weeks, the agency reported in a news release. The areas of the city covered by meterUP will continue to expand over the next four months, with the goal of making the app usable with all metered spots in the city by March 30, a spokesman said Monday. full article at: http://www.philly.com/philly/business/transportation/pay-by-phone-app-parking-returns-to-philly-ppa-smartphone-20171211.html ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Tue, 12 Dec 2017