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The Telecom Digest for Fri, 31 May 2019
Volume 38 : Issue 151 : "text" format

Table of contents
Arrest in stealing telephone copper linesHAncock4
It's the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?Monty Solomon
'Makes me angry': Big telcos' $10 service fees concern wireless customers and the CRTCMonty Solomon
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <a2d4c253-a087-455e-b909-fee229b514b8@googlegroups.com> Date: 29 May 2019 12:42:29 -0700 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Arrest in stealing telephone copper lines The Phila Inqr reported that Cherry Hill [Camden County, NJ] police arrested a 38-year-old Southamption, N.J., man for allegedly cutting Verizon Communication telecom lines and selling it for scrap, the Cherry Hill police said on Tuesday. article at: https://www.philly.com/business/verizon-arrest-theft-copper-lines-new-jersey-20190528.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <1F02AAAE-78FA-4744-8674-8CFFF63A267F@roscom.com> Date: 29 May 2019 16:31:41 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: It's the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to? It's the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to? Apple says, "What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone." Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data - in a single week. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/28/its-middle-night-do-you-know-who-your-iphone-is-talking/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <9F16F104-DFA5-48AD-B802-CAE12F7F0DFC@roscom.com> Date: 27 May 2019 11:49:40 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: 'Makes me angry': Big telcos' $10 service fees concern wireless customers and the CRTC Canada's telecom regulator has joined angry customers in questioning the growing number of fees that wireless providers charge when people call customer service to make changes to their account. The telcos' goal is to encourage customers to instead make their own changes online - using the free, self-serve option. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/10-fee-customer-service-calls-crtc-fido-koodo-bell-1.5130950 ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 31 May 2019

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