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The Telecom Digest for Thu, 17 Jun 2021
Volume 40 : Issue 168 : "text" format

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FCC June Meeting Agenda Includes Improved Emergency Alerts And Robocall Reporting
Ex-Verizon Employee Must Turn Over Tax Returns in Race Bias Suit
AT&T CEO seems confident industry can kill Biden's municipal broadband plan

Message-ID: <20210615145723.48163736@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:57:22 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: FCC June Meeting Agenda Includes Improved Emergency Alerts And Robocall Reporting FCC June Meeting Agenda Includes Broadened Supply Chain Measures, Improved Emergency Alerts And Robocall Reporting, And Expanded Telehealth Guidance by Carolyn Mahoney and Joshua Guyan .. The FCC will also consider a Report and Order that would streamline private entity reporting of robocalls and spoofed caller ID by creating a direct reporting portal to the Enforcement Bureau, along with a Report and Order providing additional guidance and clarity on the agency's telehealth-driven Connected Care Pilot Program. ... https://tinyurl.com/hhhts7n4
Message-ID: <20210616162824.74AADAF2@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:28:24 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Ex-Verizon Employee Must Turn Over Tax Returns in Race Bias Suit * Relevant to company's damages mitigation, offset defenses * Judge rejects 'heightened' test used by other federal courts Verizon Wireless can review the tax returns of a former employee suing for alleged race discrimination and retaliation because the infor- mation is relevant to the company's defenses and requiring her to produce it is proportional to the needs of the case, the District of Utah ruled. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/ex-verizon-employee-must-turn-over-tax-returns-in-race-bias-suit
Message-ID: <EA263798-F4EC-4CA4-BFC9-9947AD39C92D@roscom.com> Date: 13 Jun 2021 16:43:26 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: AT&T CEO seems confident industry can kill Biden's municipal broadband plan CEO thinks US will keep giving billions to private ISPs instead of public networks. By Jon Brodkin AT&T CEO John Stankey yesterday called President Biden's plan to fund municipal broadband networks "misguided" and said the US shouldn't pay for any broadband deployment in areas that already have networks. But as AT&T and other ISPs lobby against public networks and government- funded competition, Stankey said he is confident that Congress will steer legislation in the more "pragmatic" direction that AT&T favors. In an interview with The Economic Club of Washington, DC, Stankey was asked, "Do you support the president's proposal to have municipalities own broadband facilities?" Stankey responded, "I think actually the president's proposal is probably a bit misguided in that regard." https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/att-ceo-seems-confident-industry-can-kill-bidens-municipal-broadband-plan/

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