---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20171030044604.GA20583@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:46:04 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Inside Verizon Wireless' Hurricane Playbook To maintain phone service, the chief network officer deploys drones, boats and a lot of fuel By Henry Williams Nicola Palmer, chief network officer at Verizon Wireless, began preparing for this year's hurricane season long before meteorologists started predicting any would hit the U.S. Still, even she was surprised when one severe storm hit Texas, then another hit Florida, then another hit Puerto Rico. https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-verizon-wirelesss-hurricane-playbook-1509329161 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20171030045243.GA20636@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:52:43 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon Presses Regulators To Block State Privacy Laws by Wendy Davis Verizon is urging the Federal Communications Commission to prohibit individual states or towns from moving forward with proposed new broadband regulations, including laws aimed at preserving net neutrality and regulations intended to protect web users' privacy. "Allowing every state and locality to chart its own course for regulating broadband is a recipe for disaster," Verizon argues in a 20-page white paper submitted to the FCC this week. "It would impose localized and likely inconsistent burdens on an inherently interstate service, would drive up costs, and would frustrate federal efforts to encourage investment and deployment by restoring the free market that long characterized Internet access service. https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/309430/verizon-presses-regulators-to-block-state-privacy.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <8FB3921D-B202-4707-83CF-ADEC88ADC7D1@roscom.com> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 10:26:35 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Google responds to Pixel 2 XL screen burn-in and color concerns with upcoming software updates, 2-year warranty Google responds to Pixel 2 XL screen burn-in and color concerns with upcoming software updates, 2-year warranty This past Sunday, Google let us know that it was "actively inves- tigating" reports of screen burn in on the Pixel 2 XL. Now, less than a week later, we are learning some of what the results of that investigation are. Here's the short version: Google stands by the screen on the Pixel 2 XL, but it is nevertheless going to issue some software updates to expand its color gamut and protect it against screen burn-in. It will also offer a two-year warranty on Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL phones. https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/26/16555406/google-pixel-2-xl-screen-burn-in-color-concerns-software-updates ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20171030044213.GA20531@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:42:13 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Best Buy Defends Charging $100 Extra for iPhone X It's practically impossible to find discounts on newly launched Apple phones. But imagine being charged more than even Apple's listed price on a new iPhone. You won't have to imagine that if you go shopping for an iPhone X at Best Buy. As first reported by Bloomberg, the retailer is offering the base 64GB iPhone X for $1,099.99 and the 256GB iPhone X for $1,249.99. In both cases, that's a full $100 over the Apple Store's price. https://www.tomsguide.com/us/worst-iphone-x-deal,news-26052.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <ckqbvc54n6e99a1p44um88ho4ucnkoibqh@4ax.com> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 10:49:53 -0400 From: David Thompson <dave.thompson2@verizon.net> Subject: Re: White House wants to end Social Security numbers as a national ID On Sat, 07 Oct 2017 23:18:05 -0500, gordonb.fox5s@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) wrote: [snip] > I'd like to suggest a few objectives for a replacement for a > Social Security Number. [snip much] > There should be *NO* personal information encoded within the SSN > itself, unlike the current SSN which seems to have state of > registration (which often implies state of birth) and year of birth > within a few years for a fairly good percentage of the numbers. > > The Social Security numbers of families registering for numbers at > the same time should be unrelated (e.g. *NOT* consecutive). [snip] They already did that, six years ago: https://www.ssa.gov/employer/randomization.html Unfortunately, some people born (or immigrated) before 2011 are still alive, and some of us have fond hopes remaining alive in the future. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <96319051-02f2-199d-e4a9-19bc2d76f40a@ionary.com> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 11:44:35 -0400 From: Fred Goldstein <invalid@see.sig.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: FCC Proposes Market-Based Changes to Toll Free Number Administration On 10/29/2017 5:30 AM, Gordon Burditt wrote, > Would there be any effect on toll-free number hoarding if there > was a fee of, say, $1 / month per number "owned", whether there > is any service connected with that number or not? Yes, that means > you and me as well as the hoarders, but the hoarders have a LOT > more numbers, and I suspect this would upset their business plan. A dollar or two a number for the limited supply of 8xx numbers would be a good approach. I have already drafted a formal Comment to that effect, for the docket which is open until Nov. 13, and perhaps others would like to submit similar Comments. > Most people do not have *UNLIMITED* national plans, and it's really > easy to burn up a few months worth of your minutes on hold with one > attempt to resolve an issue with, say, an insurance company, which > may involve lots of calls and many hours on hold. If you're talking about mobile minutes, then 800 doesn't help -- those are "airtime" minutes, not "toll" minutes, so an 800 call is still billed to your own minute quota. The real value of 800 numbers now is as a nongeographic national number that can be intelligently routed within the carrier's network. The bulk of numbers, however, are used by "typosquatters" who are picking up calls to numbers near a real 800 user's number. At a price of free, they gobble up the bulk of the 8xx space and will gobble up whatever other space is created, unless something is done to discourage it. Like a small contribution to the universal service fund. -- Fred R. Goldstein k1io fred "at" ionary.com ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Mon, 30 Oct 2017