---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20200112204013.GA13514@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 20:40:13 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: CenturyLink to pay back $8.9M to Minnesota customers By Stephen Montemayor CenturyLink, the nation's third-largest telecom company, has agreed to pay $8.9 million to tens of thousands of customers in Minnesota who were allegedly overcharged, state Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Wednesday. The settlement also requires the company to reform its billing practices by disclosing its true prices, honoring all promised prices and discounts, and banning what officials deemed "sham internet fees." Under the terms of the agreement, CenturyLink also is required to submit audits to the Attorney General's Office for the next three years. http://www.startribune.com/centurylink-to-pay-back-8-9m-to-minnesota-customers/566821302/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <34fb8f26-7d43-4d89-a6c1-93a5e03bc188@googlegroups.com> Date: 9 Jan 2020 12:58:42 -0800 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: How to spot a Photoshopped image, or, The Problem with the Internet On Thursday, January 9, 2020 at 12:53:59 PM UTC-5, Monty Solomon wrote: > How to spot a Photoshopped image, or, The Problem with the Internet > > Tips for members of Congress and other Americans. > > "No one said the president of Iran was dead. No one said Obama met > with Rouhani in person," (Congressman) Gosar wrote to the "dim witted > reporter." "The point remains to all but the dimmest: Obama coddled, > appeased, nurtured and protected the worlds No. 1 sponsor of terror." > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/07/how-spot-photoshopped-image-or-problem-with-internet/ Interesting, but darkroom work has always been a factor in pho- tography. Sometimes it's just simple cropping, other times it's rearranging a photo to appear that people are together whey they weren't. The other night PBS aired a documentary of Sen McCarthy. There was a doctored photo alleging that some politician was visiting with a crook, but that was false. A point of trivia, "Photoshop" is a brand name for a software product, although it has taken on general usage like the word Xerox for photocopying. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200112202247.GA13490@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 20:22:47 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Bossier City, LA emergency services now working for AT&T users SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) - AT&T phone customers are now able to directly call emergency dispatch offices. The issue has been remedied by the phone service provider. https://www.arklatexhomepage.com/news/local-news/bossier-city-emergency-services-down-for-att-users/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200112210443.GA13863@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 21:04:43 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Cut fiber optic cable briefly disrupts Gig Harbor, WA 911 service amid broader internet outages By Paul Roberts A cut fiber optic cable was being blamed for one of a series of internet outages Friday that briefly interrupted 911 services in Gig Harbor and created internet problems in parts of the Seattle area, Portland, southern Idaho, and at least a dozen other regions across the United States, according to news reports and CenturyLink, whose customers were affected. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/centurylink-outage-disrupts-911-and-internet-services-in-wide-swath-of-u-s/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Mon, 13 Jan 2020