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The Telecom Digest for Fri, 09 Oct 2020
Volume 39 : Issue 262 : "text" format

table of contents
Central office backup power endurance
Verizon, AT&T to pay $127M for allegedly overcharging government agencies
Disbarred Attorney Seeks Sanctions Against TCPA Defendant for Arguing that His Number Belonged to a Law Firm
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <rll2r2$4l8$1@dont-email.me> Date: 7 Oct 2020 18:53:23 -0000 From: "bob prohaska" <bp@www.zefox.net> Subject: Central office backup power endurance What is the present "normal practice" for backup power at central offices? Not looking for hard-and-fast rules, just an idea of what's normal. If it matters, I'm in a town of ~60k people with an ATT CO in the middle. Thanks for reading, bob prohaska ------------------------------ Message-ID: <865z7oaz8i.fsf@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: 6 Oct 2020 02:02:05 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Verizon, AT&T to pay $127M for allegedly overcharging government agencies $127 million settlement in lawsuits that said carriers violated gov't contracts. By Jon Brodkin Verizon and AT&T have agreed to pay a combined $127 million to settle lawsuits alleging that they overcharged California and Nevada government entities for wireless service. The lawsuit was filed in 2012 and resulted in a settlement approved on Thursday last week by Sacramento County Superior Court, the plaintiffs' law firm, Constantine Cannon, announced. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/verizon-att-to-pay-127m-for-allegedly-overcharging-government-agencies/ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <86mu0zrnd9.fsf@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: 6 Oct 2020 22:38:42 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Disbarred Attorney Seeks Sanctions Against TCPA Defendant for Arguing that His Number Belonged to a Law Firm Here's the latest from the ever-colorful TCPAWorld. A disbarred lawyer received calls on his cell phone. He claims it is his personal cell phone. But the number appeared on a docket in Florida as belonging to a law firm. https://www.natlawreview.com/article/meanwhile-maryland-disbarred-attorney-seeks-sanctions-against-tcpa-defendant-arguing\ -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 09 Oct 2020
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