---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20191011014411.GA2017@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 01:44:11 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: U.S. presidential candidate Warren calls on AT&T to reject plan she says will cost jobs By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren called on AT&T Inc to reject an activist investor plan she said would lead to job cuts, staking out a different position than President Donald Trump who has cheered the investor's involvement. In a Twitter post on Thursday, Warren said she sided with union workers at the telecommunications and media conglomerate, who have criticized a plan submitted last month by AT&T activist investor Elliott Management Corp to boost the company's profits. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-warren/u-s-presidential-candidate-warren-calls-on-att-to-reject-plan-she-says-will-cost-jobs-idUSKBN1WP2M9 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20191011013957.GA1920@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 01:39:57 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T and Verizon Don't Want You To Know Where 5G Really Is Big Telecom is resisting efforts by the government to require it to include 5G availability in broadband maps. By Karl Bode Wireless carriers are fighting back against efforts to better map 5G wireless availability, worried that better data could deflate their 5G marketing hype. To hear wireless carriers tell it, 5G is just short of magic. As the faster network standard is quickly and broadly deployed, carriers say 5G will result in a "fourth industrial revolution" that will change absolutely everything, resulting in smart cities and even smarter cancer cures. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59nkvd/atandt-and-verizon-dont-want-you-to-know-where-5g-really-is -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <557c82a4-cd3c-4ca1-bd5c-00096f0fb8de@googlegroups.com> Date: 12 Oct 2019 13:31:42 -0700 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: Boston Coast Guard, yes COAST GUARD, phones are out On Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 12:10:58 PM UTC-4, danny burstein wrote: > the after action report should be interesting... > > [twitter] > > USCGNortheast > @USCGNortheast > 22m > #UrgentNotice Sector Boston Command Center telephones are currently down. > > If you or someone you know is experiencing a maritime emergency, > contact 911. > > Mariners may also use VHF channel 16. Wow. You'd think they'd have it working after nearly 100 years. The following article from 1921 describes ship-to-shore radio telephone service. https://books.google.com/books?id=ekJEAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22ship%20to%20shore%22%20telephone&pg=PT462#v=onepage&q&f=false (The rest of the issue covers news of Southern Bell Telephone Company. Interesting writeups on conversion to dial service.) Here is another article from Wireless Age https://books.google.com/books?id=6J43AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22ship%20to%20shore%22%20telephone&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false By 1950, Bell advertised that 13,500 vessels ------------------------------ Message-ID: <87mue7lvvl.fsf@roadgrime.nodomain.nowhere> Date: 11 Oct 2019 02:00:14 -0300 From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer@tallships.ca> Subject: Re: Digital Knowledge Quiz "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> writes: > Take the Digital Knowledge Quiz at: > > https://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/digital-knowledge-quiz/ > > Americans and Digital Knowledge > > A majority of U.S. adults can answer fewer than half the questions > correctly on a digital knowledge quiz, and many struggle with certain > cybersecurity and privacy questions. > > Survey results are at: > > https://www.pewinternet.org/2019/10/09/americans-and-digital-knowledge/ > > ***** Moderator's Note ***** > > *I* got a 90% score! Ahem! One of the questions was to identify a photo of a megatech company founder. Makes me about the notion of tech savvy implicit in the quiz. Such a question is a freebie for someone who watches a lot of TV but believes that what they see on their [ObTelecom] phone's browser *is* "the internet". And I didn't see my score, apparently because I have js disabled. -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20191013202858.GA18678@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 20:28:58 +0000 From: Telecom Digest Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@QRM.telecom-digest.org> Subject: New & Improved FAQ [nfp] I've just updated the Telecom Digest FAQ, and I'd appreciate your help to find mispillings and other erors. The FAQ is at http://telecom-digest.org/faq.html. Bill -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Mon, 14 Oct 2019