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The Telecom Digest for January 15, 2014
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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:54:26 -0500
From: bernieS <bernies@netaxs.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: How to torment telemarketers (LA Times)
Message-ID: <r5Bn5.A.AfE.-9V1SB@telecom>
The air-horn-blasting technique recommended by the retired police
detective obviously wouldn't work nearly as well as suggested, because
the PSTN's dynamic range of is intentionally capped at a small
fraction of that of human hearing. But some of the other techniques
in this article are pretty clever.
-bernieS
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How to torment telemarketers
Blasting an air horn, putting the telemarketers on a lengthy hold,
boring them with sob stories readers respond in force to a request
for ideas on combating 'Rachel from cardholder services.'
David Lazarus
4:52 PM PST, January 13, 2014
I almost feel sorry for telemarketers. Almost.
Last week, I solicited advice from readers about the best ways to get
telemarketers to stop bugging you, especially robocallers like "Rachel
from cardholder services," which the former head of the Federal Trade
Commission branded "public enemy No. 1."
Judging from the avalanche of responses I received, I can say with
confidence that many of you are not only fed up with these pests,
you're more than happy to exact a little revenge in the form of pranks
and time-wasting tactics.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20140114,0,1753169.column
***** Moderator's Note *****
Bernis S is right: an air horn isn't effective. However, the tones
from an ordinary touch-tone phone are actually much louder on the
other end of a call than they sound when you push the button. You can
say "I'll get my wife on the intercom, and force the marketeer to
listen to two or three attempts to "transfer" his call before he gives
up.
It's all about money: the most expensive factor to "Rachel" and her
friends is the "hit ratio" of successes versus failures. When you
answer the phone, please take one for the team and do what you can
to waste the human's time. If even a small fraction of victims fought
back this way, "Rachel" would be out of business in a month.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 21:32:39 -0500
From: T <kd1s.nospam@cox.nospam.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Why T-Mobile wants Verizon's discarded 4G airwaves
Message-ID: <MPG.2d3e6bd1f8add282989f2c@news.eternal-september.org>
In article <laveoc$tou$1@dont-email.me>, bill@horneQRM.net says...
>
> by Kevin Fitchard JAN. 6, 2014
>
> Verizon has owned these 700 MHz licenses for six years but never found a
> use for them. One's man trash is another's treasure. By buying these
> licenses T-Mobile can build an LTE network more like Verizon's.
>
>
> http://gigaom.com/2014/01/06/why-t-mobile-wants-verizons-discarded-4g-airwaves/
>
T-Mobile already has an LTE network - they bought MetroPCS. I'm a Metro
customer - 4G phone and all.
So I doubt they'll be able to use the spectrum either.
***** Moderator's Note *****
So, why did they buy it?
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:01:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Appeals court shoots down FCC net neutrality rules
Message-ID: <12013af0-deb3-4ca5-b5aa-68a2bd49998f@googlegroups.com>
By Steve Donohue, FierceCable, January 14, 2014
| In a big victory for broadband providers such as Verizon and
| Comcast, the U.S. Court of Appeals ordered the FCC Tuesday to
| rewrite network neutrality rules that have prevented ISPs from
| discriminating against traffic from Netflix and other online
| video providers.
|
| Verizon filed a lawsuit against the FCC in 2011 after the
| commission adopted net neutrality rules, arguing that it
| doesn't have the authority to regulate how it handles
| broadband traffic. But the commission insisted that net
| neutrality rules were required to protect competing providers,
| and it noted in court filings that broadband providers
| Comcast, Cox Communications and RCN had previously blocked
| access to file-sharing services such as BitTorrent.
Continued:
http://www.fiercecable.com/story/appeals-court-shoots-down-fcc-net-neutrality-rules/2014-01-14
Neal McLain
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