---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <1810459B-CB98-44E3-B515-D8A6186B2631@roscom.com> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 08:31:17 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Why Your Face Will Soon Be the Key to All Your Devices By Christopher Mims Why Your Face Will Soon Be the Key to All Your Devices It was a memorable moment in Pixar's 2004 classic "The Incredibles," one that seemed wildly futuristic at the time: Mr. Incredible picks up a wafer-thin tablet computer, and it scans his face to verify his identity before divulging his secret mission. http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/08/20/why-your-face-will-soon-be-key-to-all-your-devices.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <oncoja$ub6$1@pcls7.std.com> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 19:40:26 +0000 (UTC) From: moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) Subject: Re: History - 1971 - highway call boxes, direct-dial savings HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> writes: > A Bell System advertisement in the July 9, 1971 LIFE magazine > describes emergency call boxes being installed on a remote stretch > of I-80. >https://books.google.com/books?id=PkAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA19&dq=life%20highway%20call%20box&pg=PA18-IA4#v=onepage&q=life%20highway%20call%20box&f=false > (two pages) > (I don't know if they're still there.) The Northway (I-87 north of Albany) was built with these callboxes in the mid-late 1960s. They are long gone, but I don't know when they were taken out of service. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20170823013112.GA17953@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 21:31:12 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Editor's Corner - Verizon breaks ranks with AT&T, CenturyLink on next-gen FTTP, G.fast by Sean Buckley Verizon always likes to carve its own path, and the service provider's stance on next-gen fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) architectures and G.fast set off ongoing debate with its counterparts AT&T and CenturyLink during the recent Adtran Connections event. Being one of the first telcos to deploy a large BPON-based network in 2004 - one that still exists in congruence with GPON - Verizon's stance on these issues should be of little surprise. Out of the big three providers, it also launched an aggressive fiber build-out focusing on its wireless backhaul and business needs. The telco will likely leverage the NG-PON2 infrastructure for those efforts. http://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/editor-s-corner-verizon-breaks-ranks-at-t-centurylink-next-gen-fttp-g-fast -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <3a498d56-d935-4ac0-915c-bb1d27e9e9f9@googlegroups.com> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 11:05:09 -0700 (PDT) From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Comcast completes Xfinity Mobile rollout in U.S. Comcast Corp.'s new cellphone service is now available in all its U.S. markets, the company said Thursday. Comcast launched Xfinity Mobile - which the company says can save consumers 30 percent on wireless bills - earlier this year to its employees and in select markets including Philadelphia, reselling Verizon Communications Inc. wireless spectrum and utilizing Comcast's 18 million WiFi hotspots. for details and full article please see: http://www.philly.com/philly/business/comcast/comcast-nations-no-1-cable-company-completes-xfinity-mobile-roll-out-in-u-s-20170817.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20170823014052.GA18586@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 21:40:52 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Mexico approves AT&T/Time Warner merger Mexico Approves AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner By Paul Bond Once the merger closes, John Stankey, the head of AT&T's entertainment group, is expected to run Time Warner, which will be renamed. The merger of AT&T and Time Warner earned the blessing of Mexican regulators, the telecom giant said Tuesday. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mexico-approves-at-t-acquisition-time-warner-1031900 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Wed, 23 Aug 2017