---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190507173807.GA2193@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 17:38:07 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Don't Buy a 5G Phone Yet Your phone company is going to start bombarding you with ads for 5G phones soon, but you should ignore them - at least for now. By Ryan Whitwam Wireless carriers will begin bombarding you with ads in the coming months, telling you about how great their new 5G networks will be. And they might be great someday, but for now it's just marketing fluff. Carriers will happily sell you an expensive 5G phone in 2019, but you shouldn't take them up on that. There's a lot of confusion over what 5G is and what it can do, and AT&T isn't helping when it rebrands its sluggish 4G as "5G E." Real 5G technology requires new mobile networks and new phones. It took a couple of years before the 4G LTE technology in your current phone offered a better experience than 3G, and the move to 5G will take even longer. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/smarter-living/wirecutter/dont-buy-a-5g-phone-yet.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190507174111.GA2341@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 17:41:11 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Court grants Youngevity International's motion to subpoena man's phone records from Verizon Wireless SAN DIEGO - Youngevity International's motion to reopen discovery in a case was granted in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of California on April 10. The defendant sought to re-open discovery in the case so the plaintiff's cellphone carrier, Verizon Wireless, could be served a subpoena. https://norcalrecord.com/stories/512440157-court-grants-youngevity-international-s-motion-to-subpoena-man-s-phone-records-from-verizon-wireless -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <qaqie5$pd1$1@news.xmission.com> Date: 7 May 2019 00:10:45 -0000 From: "Kenny McCormack" <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Arizona joins majority of nation in enacting texting while driving ban In article <qa9r1g$j8r$1@grapevine.csail.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org> wrote: >In article <qa02qd$pln$1@news.xmission.com>, >Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote: > >> 2) How do they plan to enforce it? How far away are we from being >> able to tell electronically - from cell phone company records and >> what not - that people are texting while driving. Like they do on >> the TV crime shows... > >Infinitely far, since there is no way to tell from cell tower records >whether the user is in the driver's seat or the passenger's seat. The solution to that is to make it illegal for anyone in the car to be doing it. I.e., treat it as something that no one should be doing in a car - a sentiment with which I agree. Just like drinking. Open container laws. Nobody is allowed to drink in a car. -- "First of all, I do not appreciate your playing stupid here at all." - Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn - ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Wed, 08 May 2019