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The Telecom Digest for Wed, 18 Nov 2020
Volume 39 : Issue 300 : "text" format

table of contents
Android phones exchange 260MB/month with Google when 'not in use'
2 big reasons you might want to wait on upgrading to an iPhone 12
Verizon 5G DSS isn't the 5G you want
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20201117125519@telecom-digest.org> Date: 17 Nov 2020 12:55:19 -0700 From: Anonymous Poster <anonymous@telecom-digest.org.invalid> Subject: Android phones exchange 260MB/month with Google when 'not in use' New lawsuit: Why do Android phones mysteriously exchange 260MB a month with Google via cellular data when they're not even in use? By Thomas Claburn The lawsuit, Taylor et al v. Google, was filed in a US federal district court in San Jose on behalf of four plaintiffs based in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/14/google_android_data_allowance/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20201117182940.C4A20804@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:29:40 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: 2 big reasons you might want to wait on upgrading to an iPhone 12 BY James Gelinas Buying a brand new gadget can be exciting, but early adopters are often test pilots for the rest of us. If a newly released phone, laptop or operating system comes out and it's full of bugs, early adopters are the first to deal with the consequences. https://www.komando.com/gadgets/iphone-12-glitches/764657/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20201117182125.5C131804@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:21:25 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Verizon 5G DSS isn't the 5G you want There's the ultra-high-speed Verizon advertises, which is available only in a few urban spaces, and then there's Verizon's 5G-speed Dynamic Spectrum Sharing 5G, which is available almost everywhere. https://www.zdnet.com/article/verizon-5g-dss-isnt-the-5g-you-want/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Wed, 18 Nov 2020
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