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The Telecom Digest for Sun, 17 Mar 2019
Volume 38 : Issue 76 : "text" format

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911 Outage in MontanaBill Horne
Two-thirds of all Android antivirus apps are fraudsMonty Solomon
911 Outage in Schuyler, NEBill Horne
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190316221056.GA5917@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 22:10:56 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: 911 Outage in Montana (3/13) Emergency calls from Verizon phones are now going to the proper emergency lines and are no longer being re-routed to non-emergency lines at the Gallatin County 911 Center, according to a media release. ... According to a media release, calls [were] being re-routed due to "a telecommunications company issue between Verizon Wireless, CenturyLink and Zayo," and not technical issues at the 911 Center. The county says it is doing what it can to mitigate the problem. https://kbzk.com/news/local-news/2019/03/13/issues-with-verizon-911-calls-in-gallatin-county-have-been-resolved -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <0B3EE27D-C71D-4789-92BC-504AE46F9AB1@roscom.com> Date: 16 Mar 2019 00:59:49 -0400 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Two-thirds of all Android antivirus apps are frauds Two-thirds of all Android antivirus apps are frauds Only 23 Android antivirus apps had a 100 percent detection rate with no false positives. https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-thirds-of-all-android-antivirus-apps-are-frauds/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190316220641.GA5894@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 22:06:41 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: 911 Outage in Schuyler, NE (3/14) SCHUYLER, Neb. - Customers in the Minden area of Pottawattamie County are experiencing a phone outage that has disrupted 911 calls to the area. The service provider is making repairs to a washed-out fiber line. https://www.ketv.com/article/911-outage-in-minden/26824440 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 17 Mar 2019

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