---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180416045403.GA23931@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:54:03 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CenturyLink to Discontinue Legacy Service in Former Qwest Territory CenturyLink plans to discontinue another legacy service, this time its call event and management signaling service (CEMSS) - which it offers in its legacy Qwest ILEC footprint. The company is asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to shut down the service by June 1 or soon after in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. There are no longer customers for CEMSS, it said. https://www.channelpartnersonline.com/2018/04/02/centurylink-to-discontinue-legacy-service-in-former-qwest-territory/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180416044728.GA23891@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:47:28 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CenturyLink to FCC: Allow fiber overlashing on poles to accelerate broadband deployment by Sean Buckley CenturyLink says the if the FCC continues to allow attachers to overlash fiber on existing utility poles, the regulator will meet its goals to get broadband into the hands of more consumers and businesses. Overlashing is the process of physically tying additional cables to the cables that are already attached to a utility pole. https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/centurylink-says-fiber-overlashing-fiber-poles-can-accelerate-broadband-deployment -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180416045614.GA23951@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:56:14 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Does the Software Evolution Spell Doom for Desk Phones? by James Anderson Do businesses that sell desk phones need to rethink their practice? Last year we asked the same question with mixed results. Analysts and vendors told us that office phones might have a future if they play friendly in a "mobile-first" world. https://www.channelpartnersonline.com/article/does-the-software-evolution-spell-doom-for-desk-phones/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <BD935872-173B-4A58-BC0D-3B5D5D793D9D@roscom.com> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 23:40:18 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: The Internet Apologizes ... The Internet Apologizes ... Even those who designed our digital world are aghast at what they created. A breakdown of what went wrong - from the architects who built it. https://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/an-apology-for-the-internet-from-the-people-who-built-it.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180416045016.GA23909@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:50:16 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Scammy phone company Centurylink: "No one can sue us because we don't have any customers" Centurylink is a giant, scammy telco notorious for larding its customers' bills with fraudulent charges, and instructing its customer service reps to do everything possible not to waive those charges; they also open fake accounts in their customers' names, a la Wells Fargo, and then rack up charges against them. Naturally, they're getting sued; their customers have banded together in a class action suit. Centurylink has a great defense for this: it claims that these poor saps don't actually do business with Centurylink, they do business with a bunch of shell company subsidiaries that no one has ever heard of. According to Centurylink, it has zero customers. https://boingboing.net/2018/04/04/crooked-scumbags.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Mon, 16 Apr 2018