Message-ID: <20210701155434.6811A799@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2021 15:54:34 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Where AT&T and Verizon failed, Comcast is now quietly
poised to win
By Mike Dano
AT&T and Verizon have been widely mocked for their mostly unsuccessful
forays into the media and content industry.
Specifically, AT&T splurged $85 billion on Time Warner in 2018 only to
offload it to Discovery this year. Similarly, Verizon acquired AOL in
2015 for $4.4 billion and Yahoo in 2017 for $4.5 billion only to sell
them to Apollo Global Management this year for $5 billion.
https://www.lightreading.com/cable-tech/where-atandt-and-verizon-failed-comcast-is-now-quietly-poised-to-win/a/d-id/770605
Message-ID: <20210701160607.7AC7F799@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2021 16:06:07 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: AT&T sets Google Messages as default SMS app for all its
Android phones
In a Tweet posted by @Android today, Google and AT&T have agreed to
make Google Messages the default messaging app for all Android phones
sold by the carrier. While most Android devices already come
pre-installed with Google Messages, Samsung phones continued arriving
with Samsung's built-in messaging app that did support RCS, but does
not support Google's recently enabled end-to-end encryption for
one-on-one chats.
With T-Mobile agreeing to do the same a few months ago, and now AT&T
pledging to completely switch to Google Messages' RCS, Verizon is the
only major US carrier left to make the pledge to make Google Messages
the default app for messaging on its Android phones. As of now,
Verizon continues to pre-load its self-branded Messages+ app as the
default.
https://www.gsmarena.com/at_t_sets_google_messages_as_default_sms_app_for_all_its_android_phones-news-49825.php
Message-ID: <20210701160137.8439F799@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2021 16:01:37 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: The three major US carriers have implemented the FCC's
anti-spoofing system
The deadline for STIR/SHAKEN certification is today
By Mitchell Clark Jun 30, 2021
T-Mobile announced on Wednesday that it is fully compliant with the
FCC's new anti-spoofing protocol, telling the FCC that its now
certifying that calls from its network are protected against
impersonation by scam callers using the STIR/SHAKEN protocol.
Verizon also announced that it's verifying that the number that shows
up on your caller ID is actually the number that's calling you using
the same STIR/SHAKEN protocol. The two major carriers announcing their
progress on the same day isn't a coincidence -- Wednesday, June 30th,
is the deadline the FCC set for major carriers to implement
STIR/SHAKEN. An AT&T spokesperson told The Verge that the carrier also
met the deadline, as it filed on the 29th, and said that "all LTE and
5G calls originating on [its] wireless network are STIR/SHAKEN
compliant."
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/30/22557539/t-mobile-verizon-carriers-fcc-stir-shaken-certification-deadline-spam-calls
