Message-ID: <20210611160704.BFC93763@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 16:07:04 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: FL: Jefferson County and CenturyLink part ways
By Lazaro Aleman
It seems that the long planned joint venture between local officials
and CenturyLink to expand broadband service to remote areas of the
county is pretty much off the table, if a recent board discussion is
any indication.
On Thursday evening, May 20, Melissa Beaudry, a public affairs
consultant with Langton Consulting in Jacksonville, held a Zoom
meeting with Jefferson County commissioners on the status of the
CenturyLink broadband project. Langton Consulting is on contract to
the county to help it find grants and also with the use of the RESTORE
Act funding from the 2010 BP oil spill disaster. Beaudry told the
commissioners that she and County Attorney Scott Shirley had been
meeting with representatives of CenturyLink over concerns that the
latter continued to have with the contract, and more specifically with
the federal funding.
https://ecbpublishing.com/county-and-centurylink-part-ways/
Message-ID: <20210611160001.E51D6763@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 16:00:00 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Columbia wins almost $54 million in judgment against
CenturyLink
By Matthew Sanders
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
The City of Columbia has won a nearly $54 million judgment in a case
against telecommunication company CenturyLink for unpaid taxes.
A St. Louis County judge issued the ruling last week in the case
brought by Columbia and Joplin in 2014. Courts had previously found
that CenturyLink and its related companies had excluded certain types
of revenue from taxes paid to the city in violation of local laws
going back to 2007.
https://abc17news.com/news/columbia/2021/06/10/columbia-wins-almost-54-million-in-judgment-against-centurylink/
Message-ID: <20210611161907.03058763@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 16:19:06 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Some people can't get FCC subsidy because "Street" isn' the
same as "St."
ISPs' data must exactly match FCC's or application is rejected. A fix is on
the way.
By Jon Brodkin
Some broadband users who qualify for the government's new
$50-per-month subsidies haven't been able to obtain the discounts
because of technical problems in the Federal Communications
Commission's rollout of the program.
The problems stem from the FCC's National Verifier and how the
broadband providers' systems interact with the FCC database, as
detailed in an article published by Protocol today. Small mismatches
between entries in databases - such as having an address recorded as
"Elm St." in an ISP's system and "Elm Street" in the FCC's - can cause
people's applications to be rejected.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/some-people-cant-get-fcc-subsidy-because-street-isnt-the-same-as-st/
