---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190813222351.GA6672@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 22:23:52 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: United States: New York City Bill Would Bar Sharing Of Cellphone Location Data by Gary Kibel and Maxine Sharavsky A bill has been introduced in the New York City Council that, if enacted, would make it unlawful for a mobile application developer or a telecommunications carrier to share a customer's location data with third parties without the customer's consent based on whether the data was collected while the customer's mobile communications device was physically present in New York City. http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=834318&email_access=on -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190813225043.GA6741@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 22:50:43 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: TCPA Class Action Costs Rack Room Co. Up To $25.97 Million by Kimberly J. Gold and Erika Kweon Rack Room Shoes, Inc. (Rack Room) has agreed to pay up to nearly $26 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Privacy Act (TCPA). The lawsuit, Goldschmidt v. Rack Room Shoes, Inc., centers on claims that defendant Rack Room violated the TCPA when it initiated a text message campaign using an automatic telephone dialing system to target consumers without their express written consent. http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=835706&email_access=on -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <2F05B654-D1B1-415D-8ED6-E9C6D325BACA@roscom.com> Date: 12 Aug 2019 16:24:37 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: 5G Explainer: There Will Be Five 'Flavors' By Mark Lowenstein If you're in the telecom/wireless space, you've no doubt been asked by tech industry colleagues, or even by curious friends and family, about 5G: What is it, how will it be different than 4G, and when and where will it be available? It's awfully difficult to give a clear and succinct answer. As evidence, I present AT&T's August 6 press release announcing the availability of 5G in New York City: it serves a very limited area (which AT&T did not specify), and is only available to select enterprise customers. And, in the same announcement, AT&T said that "5G will be launched broadly over sub-6GHz in the coming months, with plans to offer nationwide 5G in the first half of 2020". Huh? So, dear Techpinions reader, I offer you the tech equivalent of a 'summer beach read' - the easiest way to understand, and then explain, what 5G will look like over the next couple of years. You can thank me now for laying it out in a way that eliminates the need to use the following terms: 5G SA/NSA, mmWave, sub-6, mid-band, 5G TF, 3GPP-based. This is also meant to help you ignore, and/or override, operators' particular branding of their own version(s) of 5G, and (often obfuscating) marketing terms that they might use. https://techpinions.com/my-5g-explainer-there-will-be-five-flavors/57523 ***** Moderator's Note ***** Every "flavor" of 5G leaves a bad taste in my mouth, so I propose "Horne's Corollary to the Negroponte Switch" - "Every part of the telecommunications network that is maintained by union technicians will be converted to a black box which can be swapped out by a low-wage non-union menial." Bill Horne Moderator Moderator's Note Copyright (C) 2019 E.W. Horne. All Rights Reserved. ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 15 Aug 2019