---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <0d171897698d3e9e76af9b8b24a00f50.squirrel@email.fatcow.com> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:57:25 -0500 From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com> Subject: Set-Top Box Proposal Pulled From FCC Meeting By John Eggerton, B&C, 9/29/2016 It appears FCC chairman Tom Wheeler could not secure the three votes needed for his set-top revamp proposal, at least not yet. That comes after major pushback on the vote from legislators from both parties, ISPs, studios, unions and some diversity groups. "The Set-Top Box Order has been removed from the September Open Meeting Agenda. The proposal will go on the Commission's circulation list and remain under consideration by Commissioners," the FCC said just 20 minutes before the start of the public meeting where it was to have been voted. http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/set-top-box-proposal-pulled-fcc-meeting/159996 -or- http://tinyurl.com/hhdttsm Neal McLain ------------------------------ Message-ID: <slrnnuqg85.itk.Mark@dora.home.misty.com> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 16:27:49 +0000 (UTC) From: Mark G Thomas <Mark@Misty.com> Subject: Re: Mystery Calls On 2016-09-28, Matt Simpson <usenet@news.jmatt.net> wrote: > I have been getting several calls a day to my Google Voice number from > seemingly random callerids. If I answer, nobody is there. If I don't > answer, I get a brief empty voicemail message. > > Although the callerids are never the same, it seems likely that these > are all from the same organization. The changing numbers makes it > impossible to effectively block the calls. > > Does anybody have any idea who/what these calls might be from, and why > somebody would want to continue making numerous calls without any > attempt to communicate? I receive a lot of these too, many on VOIP lines, but not speciifically on Google Voice numbers. My theory so far is: 1) Outdialing telemarketing call centers may use dialers where a live operator isn't allocated and connected to the call until you answer. I suspect they overcommit on available operators. Furthermore, if they think it's VM, they probably hang up and do not even try to connect an operator. In spite of all the human telemarketing calls I answer, I don't get any VM messages from these live operators when I do not answer, so they must simply dump the calls. 2) Call centers with operators and broken robodialers misidentifying certain VOIP recipient connections as non-completed calls. I'm getting several calls daily from "Lisa with Green Study Survey Company" (free cruise scam), with different CIDs every time. Maybe Lisa's auto-dialer doesn't always realize I've answered, or hangs up sometimes when it think's it's reached VM, or is just broken. Their answer detection may not be reliable. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <eeef4c18-75bc-485c-a4ff-7c942a475414@googlegroups.com> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 16:50:47 -0700 (PDT) From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: Mystery Calls On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 11:27:15 AM UTC-4, Matt Simpson wrote: > I have been getting several calls a day to my Google Voice number > from seemingly random callerids. If I answer, nobody is there. If > I don't answer, I get a brief empty voicemail message. > > Although the callerids are never the same, it seems likely that > these are all from the same organization. The changing numbers > makes it impossible to effectively block the calls. > > Does anybody have any idea who/what these calls might be from, and > why somebody would want to continue making numerous calls without > any attempt to communicate? Not too long ago, the telephone company would assist callers with that problem by tracing the real origin of such calls and get the caller to stop. Sometimes it was a mechanical malfunction on the caller's end, such as a bad fax machine. However, in today's world, I don't know if the modern day VOIP carriers bother to support such problem, or if the established carriers, e.g. Verizon, bother to care. ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 01 Oct 2016