---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <300A8D08-3452-4675-9245-E78A0F07D8A0@roscom.com> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 01:12:04 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Think Pittsburgh drivers are bad? Turns out they're the worst Think Pittsburgh drivers are bad? Turns out they're the worst By Ed Blazina / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette This is one category where Pittsburghers didn't want to be tied with New York City residents: worst drivers in the country, according to a report released Wednesday morning by EverQuote Inc., an online insurance marketplace. EverQuote studied 11 months of driving habits through March 6 for 150,000 drivers who use the company's EverDrive cellphone app and released the rankings Wednesday. The rankings are based on five driving activities during 20 million trips recorded by the app: speeding, cellphone use, excess acceleration, hard braking and hard turning. http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2017/04/26/pittsburgh-worst-drivers-by-city-us-everride-app-distracted-driving/stories/201704260102 ------------------------------ Message-ID: <a19c068e-cc50-4909-b366-fe443f1994a1@googlegroups.com> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 20:18:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com> Subject: FCC Chair Ajit Pai announces plan to eliminate Title II FCC Chair Ajit Pai announces plan to eliminate Title II net neutrality rules Vote to begin net neutrality rollback scheduled for May 18. By Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 4/26/2017 The Federal Communications Commission will vote next month to start the process of reversing the commission's 2015 net neutrality order, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced in a speech today. Earlier today, Pai shared with his fellow commissioners a plan to "reverse the mistake of Title II and return to the light-touch regulatory framework that served our nation so well during the Clinton administration, Bush administration, and the first six years of the Obama administration," he said. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/ajit-pai-announces-plan-to-eliminate-title-ii-net-neutrality-rules/ -or- http://tinyurl.com/mx3vbfd Neal McLain ------------------------------ Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1704271708090.26471@panix5.panix.com> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 17:09:21 -0400 From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> Subject: cellular telco region with lowest "911" and other gov't fees? Given the increasing use of "two factor authorization" which sends a "good for five minutes" password via sms text to your phone, plus lots of other reasons to have a textable cell phone that's NOT my or my wife's "real" one [a], I figured I'd get a Tracfone or similar prepaid cheapie. More and more areas are adding specialized cellco taxes and "911 fees" and non tax taxes, etc. which they're extending to the pre-paid accounts (up to now they've usually forgotten about them...) which will quickly eat up the balances. Since 99 pct of our use would be texting, which is distance and location insensitive, the "home area" doesn't matter. And while a "where is this area code" might sometimes be an issue if we use it for calling, that's something we can deal with. Any one know of any publicly available list that keeps track of all these fees? Thanks muchly [a] Giving it to, say, the IRS would be annoying but not critical. But there are plenty of others where they'd be data mining/sharing and would text out other times and garbage... So we do NOT want to rutinely give out our real phones. _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] ------------------------------ Message-ID: <AA44F528-E492-4609-AD41-ECE18FEE5DEF@roscom.com> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 16:10:33 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: F.C.C. Chairman Pushes Sweeping Changes to Net Neutrality Rules F.C.C. Chairman Pushes Sweeping Changes to Net Neutrality Rules WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday outlined a sweeping plan to loosen the government's oversight of high-speed internet providers, a rebuke of a landmark policy approved two years ago to ensure that all online content is treated the same by the companies that deliver broadband service to Americans. The chairman, Ajit Pai, said high-speed internet service should no longer be treated like a public utility with strict rules but should largely be left to police itself. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/technology/net-neutrality.html ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 29 Apr 2017