---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180301224635.GA25483@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 17:46:35 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon and a company it bought just paid $614M in biggest FCC fine ever Straight Path failed to use spectrum, resulting in $614M fine and sale to Verizon. By Jon Brodkin The Federal Communications Commission today collected a $614.3 million fine from Verizon and Straight Path, a company that Verizon just bought. The merger and fine are related. Straight Path held about 1,000 FCC spectrum licenses but failed to use them. Straight Path thus entered a settlement with the FCC requiring it "to sell its licenses and remit 20 percent of the overall proceeds of the transaction to the US Treasury," the FCC said in its announcement today. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/verizon-and-a-company-it-bought-just-paid-614m-in-biggest-fcc-fine-ever/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180301224949.GA25501@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 17:49:49 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T's Latest Net Neutrality Talking Point: Internet Fast Lanes Could Save Lives By Rhett Jones It's a confusing time for net neutrality legislation. Since the FCC voted to repeal Title II protections for the open web in December, a lot of solutions are being thrown around. One good rule is to never trust any arguments presented by telecoms. Alas, on Tuesday, AT&T issued a laughable statement saying it supports net neutrality, but it might need "fast lanes" to keep self-driving cars from slamming into each other. Tuesday brought another "Day of Action" protest to support net neutrality, and this time it was specifically designed to raise awareness about the efforts in Congress to reverse the Federal Communications Commission's decision to abandon net neutrality rules. Democrats in the Senate are one vote shy of pushing through the initiative under the Congressional Review Act. It's a long shot and would face greater hurdles in the House, but it's all part of the process. It might surprise you that AT&T wanted everyone to know that it supports the Day of Action. And, in fact, it supported the last Day of Action. But it supports these efforts in the way that the majority of Americans support the end of net neutrality - that is to say, not at all. https://gizmodo.com/at-ts-latest-net-neutrality-talking-point-internet-fas-1823400177 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180301225621.GA25521@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 17:56:21 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Colorado bill takes aim at broadband grant process By Charles Ashby DENVER - Two Western Slope lawmakers want to end the practice of allowing some in the telecommunications industry from being able to take away grants awarded to start-up companies that are trying to deploy broadband. Under current law, a company or organization that wins a grant from the state's Broadband Deployment Board can see that grant taken away. https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/western_colorado/bill-takes-aim-at-broadband-grant-process/article_c16febea-1d1e-11e8-bc33-10604b9f7e7c.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <C1BBE24E-0893-4345-97FA-59C2CB7E1AEE@roscom.com> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 02:24:02 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Why Amazon is sending you pictures of your front porch Why Amazon is sending you pictures of your front porch SAN FRANCISCO - Have you suddenly started getting porch snapshots from your Amazon delivery person? You're not alone. Amazon has been quietly expanding a program over the past few months in which some of its delivery providers take a picture of where they put your package. The photo is included in the notice of delivery received by shoppers so they know when it arrived and where to look for it. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/02/28/why-amazon-sending-you-pictures-your-front-porch/368761002/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <0BAC57E7-0F98-4FCB-956E-EEE2E9FA551B@roscom.com> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 00:16:17 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: JetBlue Inflight wi-fi update Excerpt from https://www2.jetblue.com/JetblueAlerts/WeatherUpdate.aspx Inflight wi-fi update Last Updated: 2/28/2018 11:00 PM ET Our third party high-speed wi-fi provider has notified us that their security certificate will be expiring soon. Beginning on March 1, 2018, customers logging in to Fly-Fi may receive an error message specific to the choice of browser used. Fly-Fi is still available; however, an additional step is required to complete log in. Please be assured that: * The error message is designed to protect customers from going to sites that are claiming to be something they are not. * flyfi.com has not been hacked. * Your data is not at any higher risk due to the expired security certificate. Timeframe for resolution The renewed security certificate needs to be manually installed on each aircraft by our business partner, so installation is not estimated to be completed fleet-wide before the end of March. ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 02 Mar 2018