---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20200807011952.GA13983@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 01:19:52 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: The Sixth Circuit Broadly Defines ATDS, Widening The Split Among Circuits Before The Supreme Court Rules Next Year by Lisa S. Yun and Shannon Petersen On July 29, 2020, the Sixth Circuit joined the Second and the Ninth Circuits in expansively defining Automatic Telephone Dialing System ("ATDS") under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA"). In Allan v. Pa. Higher Educ. Assistance Agency, No. 19-2043 (6th Cir. July 29, 2020), the Sixth Circuit held that "devices that dial from a stored list of numbers"--i.e. "predictive dialers"--qualify as an ATDS under the TCPA. https://tinyurl.com/y4lfmowq -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200807165244.GA16965@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 16:52:44 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: FCC Commissioner Questions AT&T And Verizon About Location Data by Wendy Davis Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission accused all four major U.S. mobile carriers of violating the agency's privacy regulations by selling information about consumers' locations to outside companies. https://tinyurl.com/y6465wz9 -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200807171508.GA17090@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 17:15:08 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: CWA Houston Local Employees Sentenced for Embezzlement Beverly Davis and Evelyn Smith stole together. And now they've been sentenced together. On July 21, Davis and Smith, each a former employee of Communications Workers of America Local 6222, were sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas to three years of probation for their roles in an embezzlement scheme that netted them more than $135,000 during 2010-17 from the Houston union, which represents AT&T employees. https://nlpc.org/2020/08/06/cwa-houston-local-employees-sentenced-for-embezzlement/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200807170405.GA16988@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 17:04:05 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Cell carriers scramble to install backup power By Kaitlyn Krasselt Cellular companies scrambled to ensure customers don't lose service while they wait for power to be restored, installing hundreds of generators at cell towers and switch facilities where power is down and backup batteries are fading. https://tinyurl.com/y3s9y6yx -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 08 Aug 2020