---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190925134127.GA2546@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:41:27 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: 911, AT&T service restored in Merrill, WI by Michael Leischner MERRILL, WI (WSAU) -- Residents in Merrill can again use 911 and AT&T service. According to a press release issued at 7:45 Tuesday night, Merrill Fire Chief Josh Klug says the city is experiencing a communication system malfunction involving both Charter/Spectrum and AT&T. https://wsau.com/news/articles/2019/sep/25/911-att-service-down-in-merrill/940629/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190925135637.GA2593@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:56:37 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Suspected copper thieves cut down 250 feet of AT&T cable By Hal Scheurich Three weeks after the crime, the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office made three arrests in a big copper theft. Investigators said the copper came from phone and communications wire belonging to AT&T. AT&T recognized the theft on September 3, 2019 after receiving complaints that their service was out, north of Stockton. "They sent their engineers up that way, their crews to try and figure out what happened and why there is an outage and boom! They find two hundred and fifty feet of their wire has been cup down over a bridge span," explained Capt. Clint Cadenhead with the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office. https://www.fox10tv.com/news/suspected-copper-thieves-cut-down-feet-of-at-t-wire/article_39f96d0e-df18-11e9-9ce5-53471a49e29d.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <670BE8C8-FA54-44C7-ABB6-18C6226A133E@roscom.com> Date: 25 Sep 2019 01:07:03 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Secret F.B.I. Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data From Scores of Companies The practice, which the bureau says is vital to counterterrorism efforts, casts a much wider net than previously disclosed, newly released documents show. The F.B.I. has used secret subpoenas to obtain personal data from far more companies than previously disclosed, newly released documents show. The requests, which the F.B.I. says are critical to its counter- terrorism efforts, have raised privacy concerns for years but have been associated mainly with tech companies. Now, records show how far beyond Silicon Valley the practice extends - encompassing scores of banks, credit agencies, cellphone carriers and even universities. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/us/data-privacy-fbi.html ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 26 Sep 2019