---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <6b22fda8-19a3-4202-9b32-75fab501f492@googlegroups.com> Date: 14 Dec 2019 11:58:58 -0800 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: Cook County, MN says it has 911 redundancy now On Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 2:11:59 PM UTC-5, Bill Horne wrote: > 911 Service redundancy was finally achieved through a partnership with > CenturyLink, The Northeast Service Cooperative, True North Broadband, > and the State of Minnesota, assisted by Cook County MIS, the Sheriff's > Office, and Emergency Management. The result: no more County-wide 911 > outages! General Telephone once advertised the importance of telephone service for emergencies: https://archive.org/details/the-saturday-evening-post-1956-08-25/page/n13 Bell telephone used to proudly advertise that an operator would always be there to help out in emergencies https://archive.org/details/the-saturday-evening-post-1964-01-18/page/n67 https://books.google.com/books?id=I1QEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA5&dq=bell%20telephone%20emergency&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20191215193757.GA16407@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 19:37:57 +0000 From: Bill Horne <hornew113QRM@telecomdigest.us> Subject: Re: Cook County, MN says it has 911 redundancy now On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 11:58:58AM -0800, HAncock4 wrote: > On Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 2:11:59 PM UTC-5, Bill Horne wrote: > > > 911 Service redundancy was finally achieved through a partnership with > > CenturyLink, The Northeast Service Cooperative, True North Broadband, > > and the State of Minnesota, assisted by Cook County MIS, the Sheriff's > > Office, and Emergency Management. The result: no more County-wide 911 > > outages! > > General Telephone once advertised the importance of telephone > service for emergencies ... OK, so much for subtlety. I was in charge of the E911 system in New England once, and the thought of "finally" having redundancy in 2019 would have been anathema to me, and IMNSHO, it should have been anathema to Centurylink and to every other person involved with E911. -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <73622061-d54d-44f7-8cbb-3d17964716ad@googlegroups.com> Date: 14 Dec 2019 10:43:20 -0800 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: Activists Protest AT&T's New Plan to Cut Labor Costs On Friday, December 13, 2019 at 8:11:45 PM UTC-5, Moderator wrote: > Outside the UBS Investor Conference in New York City this week, > activists protested vulture hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer's > plan to extract profits from AT&T by eliminating jobs and divesting > critical assets. AT&T has already agreed to some of Singer's > proposals, including announcing a plan to buy back $30 billion of > its own stock over the next three years. There's a good book that describes in detail the nasty impact of those vulture hedge funds on communities. It's called, "Glass house : the 1% economy and the shattering of the all-American town" by Brian Alexander. (St. Martin's 2017). ------------------------------ Message-ID: <76e9dd5b-0168-437d-8a24-fb4880582610@googlegroups.com> Date: 14 Dec 2019 10:49:01 -0800 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: AT&T Launches 5G You're Actually Allowed to Use On Saturday, December 14, 2019 at 12:00:52 PM UTC-5, Bill Horne wrote: > By Ryan Whitwam > > If you ask AT&T, it'll tell you it was the first US carrier to > launch 5G at the very end of 2018, but that's only true by some very > narrow definitions of the word "launch." It wouldn't let most people > actually buy or use phones on its 5G network, but that's finally > changing. AT&T has fired up a 5G network covering several markets, > and it'll even sell you a 5G phone. Just be ready to drop $1,300 on > it. Historical note: The General Telephone Co, an independent company, offered its own mobile telephone service made by its Automatic Electric and Lenkurt subsididaries. Here are some ads by them from 1959: https://archive.org/details/the-saturday-evening-post-1959-12-12/page/n79 https://archive.org/details/the-saturday-evening-post-1958-10-18/page/n1 Note the telephone on the asphalt, that's an AE model 80. It has slightly different styling than the Western Electric 500 set. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <8C0C08FF-70A1-4B5C-8AD4-13F3E706B1DD@roscom.com> Date: 14 Dec 2019 12:15:41 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: FCC advances plans for 988, a national suicide-prevention hotline FCC advances plans for 988, a national suicide-prevention hotline U.S. suicide rates are at their highest levels since World War II. The Federal Communications Commission is moving forward with plans to make 988 the nation's suicide prevention hotline in the face of a mental health pandemic that claims more than 130 Americans each day. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/12/13/fcc-approves-plans-national-digit-suicide-prevention-hotline/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Mon, 16 Dec 2019