---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190821155009.GA29722@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:50:09 +0000 From: Telecom Digest Moderatr <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Today is the Digest's Birthday I have a reminder set up in my alarm which only rings once per year. It came up again today, reminding me to change the header of the Telecom Digest Online Edition so that "37" became "38" - "38 Years of the Digest." ( The online edition is at http://telecom-digest.org/latest-issue.html ) I haven't been here that long: Pat Townson asked me to help out while he recovered from a stroke back in 2007, and he never recovered. There were others before Pat, but he was the only man I ever associated with the Digest, although all of my predecessors contributed in their own way. Well, let's all raise a relay to The Telecom Digest, and to all the people who made it possible. I hope I've made it better. Time will tell. Bill -- Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190821155310.GA29819@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:53:10 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: FCC Issues Scathing Report on 37-Hour CenturyLink Outage The Federal Communications Commission released a damning report about the cause and impact of a nationwide network outage that CenturyLink experienced late last year. The outage impacted as many as 22 million customers across 39 states, and at least 886 calls to 911 were not delivered, according to the FCC. The outage on CenturyLink's fiber network, which lasted for nearly 37 hours, was caused by an equipment failure that was "catastrophically exacerbated by a network configuration error," the agency concluded. As many as 17 million customers spread across 29 states lacked reliable access to 911 throughout the outage. Further studies determined that there was no harm to life or property resulting from the outage. https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/fcc-issues-scathing-report-on-37-hour-centurylink-outage/2019/08/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190821155945.GA29941@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:59:45 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Tech Tuesday: De-clutter your smartphone MADISON (WMTV) -- We could all use a little time to tidy up our smarphones. Caleb Drolshagen from AT&T is in the studio with some phone tidying tips. https://www.nbc15.com/content/news/Tech-Tuesday-De-clutter-your-smartphone-557163531.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190821160257.GA29999@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:02:57 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Study: U.S. cell phone carriers throttle your Netflix, YouTube more than other countries By Wes Wilson AUSTIN (KXAN) - A yearlong study of cell phone carriers found that almost every major U.S. cellular carrier throttles your data, and they do it much more often than ever previously reported. The U.S. companies also do it more often than companies in other parts of the world. The study found carriers mainly throttle video streaming services and they play favorites. For example, AT&T throttled Netflix and YouTube 70% and 74% of the time respectively but never throttled Amazon Prime. https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news/state-news/study-u-s-cell-phone-carriers-throttle-your-netflix-youtube-more-than-other-countries/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190821155802.GA29904@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:58:02 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Business lobby prods 9th Circuit to revisit decision curbing consumer arbitration By Alison Frankel (Reuters) - I told you that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was going to get blowback from its June 28 rulings in a trio of cases in which plaintiffs claimed they couldn't be forced into arbitration because they sought injunctions against corporate defendants. That resistance has arrived: The Chamber of Commerce and other business and employer groups have just submitted amicus briefs calling on the 9th Circuit to reconsider decisions that, in the views of these amici, eviscerate mandatory arbitration provisions. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-otc-mcgill/business-lobby-prods-9th-circuit-to-revisit-decision-curbing-consumer-arbitration-idUSKCN1VA24J -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 22 Aug 2019