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The Telecom Digest for Fri, 01 May 2020
Volume 39 : Issue 106 : "text" format

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National parks balancing demands for cell service, silence
AT&T, T-Mobile butt heads with Comcast, Wi-Fi in 5.9 GHz melee
Where Does AT&T Go From Here?
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20200430164822.GA21218@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:48:22 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: National parks balancing demands for cell service, silence PHOENIX - (AP) - Musetta Vander has been to several of the most iconic national parks and landscapes in the U.S., capturing herself doing a yoga pose among the Joshua trees, driving on a tree-lined highway framed by Yosemite's towering rock formations and sitting at the edge of a cliff overlooking a horseshoe-shaped bend in the Colorado River. https://www.wftv.com/news/national-parks/FWUI2ZIOVYJMHNCSF5LCCUDPOI/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200430162656.GA21107@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:26:57 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: AT&T, T-Mobile butt heads with Comcast, Wi-Fi in 5.9 GHz melee by Monica Alleven The 5.9 GHz band, aka "the mess," is at the center of several fights as the FCC considers rejiggering the band for Wi-Fi after years of the spectrum laying mostly fallow. https://www.fiercewireless.com/regulatory/at-t-t-mobile-butt-heads-comcast-wi-fi-5-9-ghz-melee -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200430155108.GA20975@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:51:08 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Where Does AT&T Go From Here? by Wayne Friedman Where does AT&T -- and other diversified communications/media companies -- go in future? Randall Stephenson's departure as CEO of AT&T, after recent years of big entertainment/TV acquisitions, would seem to be a good place to start. https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/350660/where-does-att-go-from-here.html -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 01 May 2020
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