Message-ID: <slhho4$hjl$3@dont-email.me>
Date: 29 Oct 2021 15:23:56 -0400
From: "Michael Trew" <michael.trew@att.net>
Subject: Here's the FBI's Internal Guide for Getting Data from AT&T,
T-Mobile, Verizon
"A newly obtained document written by the FBI lays out in unusually
granular detail how it and other law enforcement agencies can obtain
location information of phones from telecommunication companies."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vqkv/how-fbi-gets-phone-data-att-tmobile-verizon
Message-ID: <e67bda4e-03a7-6ed9-423f-9547ff133490@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 12:10:13 -0400
From: Bill Horne <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Footing the Bill for Broadband
THE ELECTRFIER
October 2021
Manager's Report
Footing the bill for broadband shouldn't fall to French Broad EMC
Members. Rural North Carolina needs better access to broadband internet;
all of us who live here understand that deeply. The large cable
companies never considered serving any of our members outside of Mars
Hill or Marshall. French Broad EMC recognized that high speed broadband
was never going to be available to most of our customers in our Marshall
District so our board of directors challenged our staff to find a solution.
We began applying for grants and other funding opportunities to get high
speed service into our most rural areas. In the past four years, we have
connected over 5,000 members to our fiber internet service and our plan
is to continue to expand our service until every member has access.
Without FBEMC, none of these customers would have high speed internet
today regardless of what the major cable companies claim.
Recently, we have seen commercials and media from cable companies
blaming the lack of rural broadband on electric utilities, including us,
a rural, not-for-profit electric cooperative. Their claim is that
electric cooperatives are blocking cable companies from using utility
poles for broadband.
But what are those commercials not saying? That cable companies want
electric cooperatives and members to foot the bill for broadband
deployment.
https://www.frenchbroademc.com/ElectrifierOctober2021.pdf (Page 2)
***** Moderator's Note *****
The "old" way of doing things was that the "power" company owned about
half of the poles, and the "phone" company most of the other half,
with a few provided by private companies or individuals.
The cable and Internet providers apparently feel that they should
enjoy attachment rights to existing poles, without sharing the costs
of installing and maintaining them, at least in this part of the
Tarheel State. I invite comments about this issue, especially from
those whom have negotated pole cost-sharing arrangements between
Internet access providers and traditional phone or power companies.
Bill Horne
Moderator
