---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <FD1CE1B1-18AE-48D3-A3DC-8C6C79808638@roscom.com> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 23:04:50 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Inside the Opposition to a Net Neutrality Repeal Inside the Opposition to a Net Neutrality Repeal By Cecilia Kang Fight for the Future, a scrappy 10-person nonprofit, has helped lead the uproar against changes to internet rules, including hundreds of protests on Thursday. WORCESTER, Mass. - Hundreds of protests were staged across the country on Thursday in the latest uproar over a repeal of rules ensuring an open internet. The drumbeat of action can in good part be traced back to a yellow Victorian house in this leafy New England city. The home is the nerve center for Fight for the Future, a scrappy 10-person nonprofit that has helped lead the opposition to the change - even if its effort to protect so-called net neutrality has the longest of odds. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/technology/net-neutrality-protests-opposition.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <AB890AB9-CD7E-4AA9-A03F-EFF798CE8DF1@roscom.com> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 10:01:06 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Trump jokes, Verizon shilling and the end of the Internet: Ajit Pai roasts himself at event Trump jokes, Verizon shilling and the end of the Internet: Ajit Pai roasts himself at event Before the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission made fun of himself, his critics and the telecom industry at an annual Washington dinner, net neutrality activists protested nearby https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/08/trump-jokes-verizon-shilling-and-the-end-of-the-internet-ajit-pai-roasts-himself-at-event/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <BEB886E5-862A-4B79-9073-B92E29F1FA74@roscom.com> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 20:29:50 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Fire Alert Sent to Millions of Cellphones Was California's Largest Warning Yet Fire Alert Sent to Millions of Cellphones Was California's Largest Warning Yet The cellphone alert, which went to at least eight million people, was California's largest use ever of a federal warning system activated in 2012. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/us/cellphone-alerts-california-fires.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20171209153927.GA26250@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 10:39:27 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: FCC Must Investigate Fraud Before Voting On Net Neutrality By Jessica Rosenworcel When Netflix debuted the second season of Stranger Things on October 27, more than 15 million people watched the first episode in the following three days. But the strangest thing about Stranger Things? Its early audience was bigger than some of this year's World Series games. Today, we have an explosion of online video and countless other services because the internet is open to all. Anyone can use digital tools to create and distribute their work online. Despite the wild benefits of this openness, Washington is ready to unravel it. https://www.wired.com/story/fcc-must-investigate-fraud-before-voting-on-net-neutrality/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20171209153429.GA26227@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 10:34:29 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Thousands Braved The Cold Outside Verizon Stores Yesterday By Janet Burns Around the country yesterday, supporters of net neutrality rules took to the streets--specifically, those areas around Verizon stores--to re-emphasize the fact that voters from across the political spectrum want the rules kept intact for major financial, privacy, and free speech reasons. Ahead of the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) expected vote to ditch the Obama-era policies next Thursday, then (Dec. 14, 2017), thousands of Americans of all stripes turned out in the cold to spread the word, which the FCC has tried to suppress, while they still can. https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetwburns/2017/12/08/thousands-braved-the-cold-outside-verizon-stores-yesterday-heres-why/#2de27f5823ae -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20171210011749.GA28451@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 20:17:49 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T's courtroom conundrum: How to avoid paying an extra $500 million to Time Warner By Brian Fung On March 19, AT&T and the Justice Department are expected to head to court to decide the future of Time Warner in what could be a historic legal showdown over a massive $85 billion merger. The timing of the trial could put AT&T in an uncomfortable position as it seeks to buy up one of the world's most valuable media and entertainment conglomerates, known for popular TV channels such as CNN and hit film franchises like the "Harry Potter" series. AT&T has been racing to get its deal with Time Warner closed by April 22, which would allow it to avoid having to pay Time Warner $500 million in recognition of its "time and expenses" spent on the process. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/08/atts-courtroom-conundrum-how-to-avoid-paying-an-extra-500-million-to-time-warner/?utm_term=.9f149f522e88 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20171210012553.GA28676@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 20:25:53 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Mom-to-be was so angry at AT&T, she called to complain while having her baby By Dave Leiber and Marina Trahan Martinez I am preparing my monthly report of complaints that The Watchdog sends to AT&T CEO/President/Chairman/Big Kahuna Randall Stephenson. But there was one emergency complaint that could not wait. I sent it to AT&T immediately upon receipt. What was it? A photograph of a woman in the hospital about to have a baby, calling AT&T for the umpteenth time to get her bill fixed. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2017/12/07/mom-angry-att-calls-complain-baby -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 10 Dec 2017