Message-ID: <20210702173556.4C96179A@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 17:35:56 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Verizon Offers Low-Cost Service Commitment to Seal TracFone
Deal
Nation's largest wireless carrier told FCC it would keep backing subsidized
Lifeline service for three years
By Drew Fitzgerald
Verizon Communications Inc. told federal regulators it would keep
supporting low-cost wireless service for three years if it is allowed
to buy TracFone, a sign of deepening negotiations in the carrier's
effort to control a giant in prepaid cellphone plans.
"We're very comfortable to make that commitment to &elip; continued
participation in Lifeline for the next three years in any geography
where TracFone provides Lifeline services today," Ronan Dunne,
Verizon's chief of consumer services, said in an interview
Thursday. The carrier will also provide ultrafast fifth-generation, or
5G, service to Lifeline customers within six months of the deal's
closing, he added.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-offers-low-cost-service-commitment-to-seal-tracfone-deal-11625171554
Message-ID: <20210702174211.9B4B579A@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 17:42:11 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Verizon agrees to halt 5G pole installation in Dewey Beach
By Ellen Driscoll
Verizon's installation of 5G utility poles in Dewey Beach has
been halted due to a temporary restraining order issued by the Court
of Chancery July 1.
The order issued by Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock III in response to a
class-action lawsuit filed June 21 by Dewey Beach residents Alex
Pires, Diane Cooley and John Snow stated that Verizon and the
plaintiffs agreed on conditions of the proposed restraining order to
avoid the need for court intervention.
https://www.capegazette.com/article/verizon-agrees-halt-5g-pole-installation-dewey-beach/222888
Message-ID: <325140E4-382C-4FBD-9ECB-7C76A953235C@jt-mj.net>
Date: 1 Jul 2021 16:04:41 -0400
From: "Julian Thomas" <jt@jt-mj.net>
Subject: Fwd: The three major US carriers have implemented the
FCC's anti-spoofing system
On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 16:01:37 +0000 (UTC), Moderator
<telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.remove-this.telecom-digest.org> wrote:
> 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.
Does this do much good?
jt
-- jt@jt-mj.net
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate
cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
***** Moderator's Note *****
"Does it do much good?" That's a good question. The STIR/SHAKEN name
of this miracle cure is an obvious reference to Ian Fleming's mythical
superspy James Bond, who ordered his martinis "Shaken and not
stirred," and for that reason I suspect that the Friendly Candy
Company knows it's only a theoretical solution that either doesn't
work at all, or which can be easily bypassed.
Time will tell.
Bill Horne
Moderator
