---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190120010238.GA2596@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 20:02:38 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon Promises Not To Over-Hype 5G, Immediately Proceeds To Over-Hype 5G By Andrew Cheetham 'We've talked a lot about how while fifth-generation wireless is a good thing (in that faster, more reliable networks are always good), it's been comically over-hyped by cellular carriers and network hardware vendors. It has also been accompanied by what appears to be a race between cellular carriers to broadly misrepresent what 5G is capable of, and where and when it will actually be available. AT&T, for example, began changing the 4G icons on user phones to "5GE," despite the fact actual 5G isn't even out of the oven yet. https://www.davidicke.com/article/515183/verizon-promises-not-hype-5g-immediately-proceeds-hype-5g -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190119223809.GA2114@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 17:38:09 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Apple pays $7.50 to Qualcomm for each iPhone BY Cathy Guerrero In It&Software - Jan 18, 2019 As a result of Qualcomm's CEO, Steve Mollenkopf, turning down Apple, the company had to turn to Intel and request that Intel handle all of the LTE chips for the iPhones launched past year. But Qualcomm paints the payment quite differently: it says that Apple insisted on the $1bn payment as an "incentive" and to cover the costs of switching to its radio modem chips from Infineon to Qualcomm in its new phone designs. http://realfarrahgray.com/2019/01/18/apple-pays-7-50-to-qualcomm-for-each-iphone/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190121071058.GA6611@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 02:10:58 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon Promises to #ReverseTheFee on Remind After Educators' Outcry By Emily Tate After an outcry from educators on social media, along with countless phone calls to Verizon customer service, the telecommunications company says it will not enforce the 11-fold fee increase that was slated to hit Remind, a messaging service used widely by teachers and parents in the U.S., come February. On Monday, Remind notified its users, 7 million of whom are Verizon Wireless customers, that with the new fee hike, it would no longer be able to absorb the cost of its users sending text messages on its platform. https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-01-16-verizon-promises-to-reversethefee-on-remind-after-educators-outcry -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Tue, 22 Jan 2019