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Message-ID: <20181001155512.GA20600@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 11:55:12 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
Subject: 1,000 Verizon employees to move to Infosys
By Shilpa Phadnis
Bengaluru - Around 1,000 Verizon employees in the U.S. and India are
expected to transition to Infosys beginning [in] October. This follows
the $700-million IT outsourcing deal Infosys won from the U.S. telecom
giant, about which TOI reported last week.
Infosys will initialy rebadge a few hundred employees, who are subject
matter experts, and is expected to offer them comparable and com-
petitive compensation. Some employees fear that if they resist the
offer, they could be laid off. Some are concerned about the quantum of
severance payout.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/1000-verizon-employees-to-move-to-infosys/articleshow/66021423.cms
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Message-ID: <20180930153122.GA16874@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 11:31:22 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
Subject: Verizon sends portable cell tower to assist in search for
missing hiker
As first responders continue their search for a missing hiker near
Andrew Bald Mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park area
of Tennessee, Verizon Wireless has deployed a portable cell phone
tower to Andrews Bald to assist with search efforts.
Mitzie Sue "Susan" Clements, 53, of Cleves, Ohio, was last seen about
5 p.m. Tuesday on the Forney Ridge Trail, approximately a quarter-mile
from Andrews Bald, after she and her daughter separated SPOT
(Satellite Pico Cell on a Trailer) is a mobile cell site that utilizes
satellite connectivity to provide wireless service for those engaged
in these ongoing efforts.
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2018/09/28/missing-hiker-smokey-mountains-verizon-mitzie-sue-susan-clements/1457902002/
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Message-ID: <20181001160819.GA20669@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 12:08:19 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
Subject: Caroline supervisors concerned about state-mandated 911
services upgrade
By Adele Uphaus
Upcoming statewide changes to 911 services have Caroline County
[Virginia] supervisors worried.
The board heard a presentation last week from Chief Deputy Scott Moser
about the state-mandated deployment of Next Generation 911 services.
Upgrades to 911 systems across the country are necessary because most
were built using analog rather than digital technologies and are
tethered to voice-centric communications, according to the federal
government's 911.gov.
https://www.fredericksburg.com/news/local/caroline/caroline-supervisors-concerned-about-state-mandated-services-upgrade/article_3878fc3f-85c7-5fd7-b497-578925427144.html
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Message-ID: <20181001160322.GA20644@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 12:03:22 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
Subject: Trump administration to sue California to quash its new net
neutrality law
Trump administration to sue California to quash its new net neutrality
law
By Tony Romm and Brian Fung
The Trump administration said Sunday it will sue California in an
effort to block what some experts have described as the toughest net
neutrality law ever enacted in the United States, setting up a
high-stakes legal showdown over the future of the Internet.
California on Sunday became the largest state to adopt its own rules
requiring Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon to
treat all web traffic equally. Golden State legislators took the step
of writing their law after the Federal Communications Commission
scrapped nationwide protections last year, citing the regulatory
burdens they had caused for the telecom industry.
https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/business/article/Trump-administration-to-sue-California-to-quash-13270581.php
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Message-ID: <20181002031157.GA23300@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 23:11:57 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
Subject: Outage in Reno, Tahoe areas for AT&T cell phone customers
RENO, Nev. (KOLO)-- AT&T cell phone customers are having issues in the
Reno and Lake Tahoe area today, the company confirmed.
"Some wireless customers in the Lake Tahoe and Reno areas may be
experiencing issues with their service due to a hardware issue,"
spokesman Steven Ramirez said in a statement. "Technicians are engaged
and working to repair the issue as quickly as possible."
AT&T provided no information on the number of customers affected and
when the outage started.
https://www.kolotv.com/content/news/Outage-in-Reno-Tahoe-areas-for-ATT-cell-phone-customers-494859471.html
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Message-ID: <20181002035944.GA23657@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 23:59:44 -0400
From: Jonathan Kamens <jik@remove-this.kamens.us>
Subject: Please chip in to help keep moderated newsgroups working
***** Moderator's Note *****
I'm passing along a request from Jonathan Kamens that he sent to me as
a Usenet moderator. Jonathan is one of the good guys: generous,
selfless, and dedicated.
Please do what you can, and thanks.
Bill Horne
Moderator
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Subject: Please chip in (or ask your readers to) to help keep moderated
newsgroups working
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:34:16 -0400
From: Jonathan Kamens <jik@kamens.us>
To: Telecom Digest <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Hi,
I've been maintaining one of the moderated newsgroup relay servers,
i.e., the email servers that route moderated newsgroup postings to
moderators, since 2010.
There used to be three relays, but one was having technical
difficulties so it was removed from the rotation. Furthermore, the
hosting infrastructure I was using has had reliability issues, so not
infrequently we've been at only one active, working relay. In short,
there isn't enough redundancy to ensure that there's a working relay
all the time.
To improve things, I've moved the relay I maintain from its old
infrastructure, which was free for me, to Linode, which costs money. I
also want to set up a third relay on a different hosting provider
(probably Vultr) in a different geographic location, for maximum
redundancy.
I am happy to donate my time to this, but I would rather not also have
to pay for it out-of-pocket, given that I'm paying school tuition for
five children and I rarely even read any moderated newsgroups
nowadays. Therefore, I've set up a Patreon page at
https://www.patreon.com/usenetmoderatorrelays,
and I'm asking people to chip in to help pay for the relay servers I'm
maintaining.
If you're willing to chip in $1 a month to help ensure that posters
will continue to be able to get submissions reliably to your
newsgroup, and/or you're willing to make a posting to your newsgroup
asking readers to chip in, I'd appreciate it. I only need ~20 patrons
to pledge $1 a month to provide enough funding to support two highly
available and redundant relays.
I don't want to annoy people by asking too often, so once I have
enough money banked to last for the next two years, I will disable the
Patreon page and not ask again until the money runs out.
Please feel free to email me if you have any questions.
Again, the URL of the Patreon page is
https://www.patreon.com/usenetmoderatorrelays.
Thanks,
Jonathan Kamens
P.S. For /maximum/ redundancy, I'd actually prefer for someone else to
maintain the third relay, rather than maintaining two myself. That
way, there would be full redundancy in terms of maintainer as well as
hosting provider and location. Setting up and maintaining a relay is
pretty easy, since I can provide an Ansible playbook which completely
builds out a relay from scratch. Of course if you don't have VM
infrastructure to host on and end up paying for a VM like I am, I will
share any donations I get with you to help cover the costs. Please get
in touch with me if you are interested.
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