---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20171011143340.GA30516@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:33:40 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CenturyLink line cut, knocking out phones, internet from Carbondale to Aspen Echoing an incident more than two years ago, a CenturyLink fiber-optic link was cut Tuesday near Carbondale, knocking out much of the cellphone and internet service from Carbondale to Aspen [Colorado] for several hours. Service was restored in Carbondale at about 11 p.m., and Pitkin County authorities said service was back shortly after midnight. http://www.postindependent.com/news/centurylink-fiber-down-in-carbondale/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <e7b090db0c7f8b82128b7e07d2a3f15c.squirrel@email.fatcow.com> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:34:15 -0500 From: "Neal McLain" <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com> Subject: Cities Want Super-Fast Wireless Internet, But on Their Terms. Cities Want Super-Fast Wireless Internet, But on Their Terms. By Linda Poon, CityLab, Oct 9, 2017 Mayors, state lawmakers, and carriers can't agree on who gets to regulate the deployment of next-gen wireless technology--and it's crucial for the future of smart cities. In the race to make the U.S. a nation of smart cities, there's no shortage of big ideas. Cities want to attach sensors to everything - streetlights, bridges, garbage trucks - and use the data they collect to predict things like potholes and traffic. They want their buildings to talk to residents via phones and wearables. They want the city grid to talk to cars. The list goes on. But beneath all those ambitions lies a bigger challenge, one that's at the heart of legal battles brewing between cities, states legis- latures, and telecom companies in at least 17 states. For these projects to work out and scale up, cities are scrambling to build out the sort of high-speed, wireless infrastructure to support them. Among the most highly coveted is the much ballyhooed 5G network, which promises by 2020 to be anywhere between 10 and 100 times faster than what's available now. https://www.citylab.com ... -or- http://tinyurl.com/ydhhamze Neal McLain ([See comment by] "TexasCableGuy" in the comment section [of the article at the above URL]) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <D0E9B877-570D-4202-A726-9853B2758404@roscom.com> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 23:00:45 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: American Tower Excerpt from Seven Boston Executives on What You Might Not Know About Their Companies ... Finally, Jim Taiclet is the chairman, president, and CEO of American Tower, which just might be the most important Boston company you've never heard of. We're the only cell-tower company with global reach - with nearly 150,000 sites in 15 different countries on five continents. And we're the leading independent provider of towers in the largest free-market democracies on all five of those continents. Nobody else even comes close to our size and reach. http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2017/10/10/boston-execs-factoids/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <225b681b-e344-b34f-741e-0237df82cb70@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:44:09 -0400 From: Steve Stone <n2ubp@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: American Tower -------- Original Message -------- From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: American Tower Date: Tuesday, Oct 10, 2017 11:00 PM EST To: > Excerpt from Seven Boston Executives on What You Might Not Know About > Their Companies ... > > Finally, Jim Taiclet is the chairman, president, and CEO of American > Tower, which just might be the most important Boston company you've > never heard of. > > We're the only cell-tower company with global reach - with nearly > 150,000 sites in 15 different countries on five continents. And > we're the leading independent provider of towers in the largest > free-market democracies on all five of those continents. Nobody else > even comes close to our size and reach. > > http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2017/10/10/boston-execs-factoids/ As a ham radio operator my ARES public service group has had signi- ficant issues with American Tower. They come in, buy up what they can, and kick out the hams, many times finding thousands of dollars of repeater gear tossed in a heap for garbage pickup without a warning shot over our bow. Maybe it's just the local American Tower guy has a bad attitude, but he has a bad attitude even with local government representatives. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <afd7dd13e906cbaf3d31e2983fa8d55b.squirrel@email.fatcow.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:11:20 -0500 From: "Neal McLain" <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com> Subject: The Rise of Fiber Infrastructure By the editors, FireceCable, October 11, 2017 The dawn of the 5G era will require a massive infusion of fiber deep into networks to provide a foundation for the explosion of mobile data traffic that will occur around 2020. To prepare for this infusion, you need to plan now for your next fiber upgrade. https://pages.questexweb.com/RiseOfFiber-October2017- ... -or- http://tinyurl.com/yaf84uko Neal McLain ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 12 Oct 2017