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The Telecom Digest for March 14, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 69 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
The Age Of Apps (Monty Solomon)
Anti-Verizon sites not hard to find (Bill Horne)
Re: CenturyLink subscribers claims she had to pay previous tenant's bill (Bill Horne)
Falcone's LightSquared Hires Legal Team to Fight Regulators (Bill Horne)
Alleged AT&T Employee shown on tape at harvest time (Bill Horne)

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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:23:10 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org. Subject: The Age Of Apps Message-ID: <p06240858cb85872ecdff@[10.0.1.3]> The Age Of Apps On Point with Tom Ashbrook Monday, March 12, 2012 A new iPad and the avalanche of "apps," all over. We'll look at everyday life in the age of apps. It's amazing what the apps on a smart-phone or tablet can now do. And how ubiquitous they're becoming. Apps to play. Apps to learn. Apps to share and eat and track and socialize. Point your phone at sign in Spanish. Click. It tells you what the sign says - in English. We've got Google apps and Kindle apps and Apple apps all over. Last week, Chunli Fu in Qingdao, China, downloaded the world's 25 billionth Apple app - a game called "Where's my Water?" Apps are bringing computer power deep into the world. This hour, On Point: the newest, the coolest, and life in the age of apps. -Tom Ashbrook Guests Hiawatha Bray, tech reporter and columnist for the Boston Globe. Christina Bonnington, staff writer for Wired Digital's blog "Gadget Lab". http://onpoint.wbur.org/2012/03/12/the-age-of-apps
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:03:22 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org. Subject: Anti-Verizon sites not hard to find Message-ID: <jjp5ac$ac4$1@dont-email.me> I just came across several anti-verizon sites, and I pass them along with a large grain of salt. The first, which, among other things, has the following entry: I have experienced the worse customer service in response to any company I have encountered. Verizon at times has even broken the law in how they treated me, their good customer. And what does a little guy like me do? Build a website of course; a website to warn others of the evils of Verizon. I'll include a "short" url, because the actual website name isn't suitable for family viewing. See http://goo.gl/nmveo There is also a Facebook page called - well, you'll get the idea. Again, the name isn't for children's eyes. http://goo.gl/oS8Wm Last but certainly not least, here's a UTube page that features a disappointed customer doing batting practice with a cell phone: as before, the actual title is a bit too risqué for publication. You've been warned. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9MhQtcb5M4 Bill -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:37:00 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org. Subject: Re: CenturyLink subscribers claims she had to pay previous tenant's bill Message-ID: <jjp3ov$3c2$1@dont-email.me> On 3/11/2012 12:00 PM, Bill Horne wrote: > Here's a new twist on debt collection: according to a complaint shown > below, CenturyLink has demanded that a new tenant pay the previous > tenant's bill in order to get phone service. > > I call and order the basic $17.00 per month service and the line > backer for my life alert system. I am told I have to pay the > previous tenants bill before they will even talk to me. So I pay > that and get the service ordered ... > > Rest is at > > http://centurylink.pissedconsumer.com/century-link-sucks-20120309303584.html > CenturyLink appears to be taking note of customer complaints on the above site: the following reply was posted yesterday. 1. Written by @CenturyLinkHelp on March 12, 2012 from Denver, Colorado, US Hey Retheridge, sorry to hear about your experience. Not typical. Generally speaking the only reason to pay a balance from a prior resident is if it was an "endebted household" which means you would have had to reside there or been listed on the previous account. If that was not the case we can get this corrected. ... It remains to be seen if the "@CenturyLinkHelp" group is able to address the issue, or if it is interested only in spin control. Bill -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:42:10 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org. Subject: Falcone's LightSquared Hires Legal Team to Fight Regulators Message-ID: <jjp42k$4e3$1@dont-email.me> Falcone's LightSquared Hires Legal Team to Fight Regulators by Scott Moritz and Todd Shields - Mar 13, 2012 6:12 PM ET . Billionaire Philip Falcone's LightSquared Inc. hired litigators Theodore Olson and Eugene Scalia of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP as it gears up for a possible legal battle with U.S. regulators. The wireless venture, facing a regulatory rejection for its business plan, is seeking to make sure it doesn't lose its multibillion-dollar investment due to the government's decision, Olson, a former U.S. solicitor general, said today in an e-mailed statement. Rest at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-13/falcone-s-lightsquared-hires-legal-team-to-fight-regulators-1-.html -or- http://goo.gl/eo2YS -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:24:28 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org. Subject: Alleged AT&T Employee shown on tape at harvest time Message-ID: <jjp6ht$eas$1@dont-email.me> This one, I can't resist. It's a UTube shot of an alleged AT&T employee doing, um, alleged bad deeds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhB1WhMjfUI&NR=1&feature=fvwp -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my address to write to me directly)
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