---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20210104155137.785B6736@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 15:51:37 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: The Biden Administration Should Increase Phone and Internet Subsidies for Low-Income Americans By Claire Park When life moved online with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 77 million people were left behind. Those who lack an adequate home internet connection struggle to keep up with distance learning, stay in touch with family and friends, receive public health and emergency alerts, apply for jobs, and continue working from home. https://slate.com/technology/2021/01/lifeline-fcc-expansion-biden-broadband-access.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20210104151125.1EA98736@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 15:11:25 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Nashville bombing reveals US communication networks' vulnerability; officials demand answers on how to secure them By Meghan Mangrum and Donovan Slack NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Four days after the bombing downtown on Christmas Day crippled cell service, internet and even tools for law enforcement across a multistate region, residents in White County, Tennessee, struggled to get through to the emergency communication center. https://news.yahoo.com/nashville-bombing-revealed-vulnerabilities-us-132205934.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20210104152302.93C53736@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 15:23:02 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: T-Mobile suffers security breach exposing call records of customers American mobile operator T-Mobile has suffered a security breach that may have exposed call records and phone numbers for some of its customers. T-Mobile said the data breach did not expose customers' names, physical addresses, email addresses, financial data, credit card information, social security numbers, tax IDs, passwords or PINs. https://www.telecomlead.com/telecom-services/t-mobile-suffers-security-breach-exposing-call-records-of-customers-98266 ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Tue, 05 Jan 2021