---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20161111213513.GA1479@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 16:35:13 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CenturyLink's mystery gift may come in handy By Lou Marzales Just last week mysterious packages from CenturyLink arrived at various businesses and residences around its service area. They contained a small gift (a Tile, a device that can be attached to a key chain or cell phone and tracked via an application if the key chain or phone gets lost), along with a letter saying, "We at CenturyLink value your business and regret losing you as our customer.": The gift and the promotional offer of two months' free service were aimed at getting back lost customers. But the packages were a mystery because they were sent to businesses and residences that had not cancelled their CenturyLink service. Yet. After experiences around much of the country Sunday and Monday, some may want to get those packages. For much of those days, for example, most of the Columbia River Gorge had no direct 9-1-1 service. CenturyLink phone lines were down throughout the area. Emergency agencies in Washington and Oregon made quick announcements advising residents of work-arounds to contact 9-1-1 help. Some banks were unable to transact some of their business. http://www.goldendalesentinel.com/story/2016/11/09/news/centurylink-sends-gorge-into-dark-ages/8199.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20161111212722.GA1434@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 16:27:22 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon facing loss of coverage in part of Washington, D= .C. Verizon faces 'significant loss' of cell coverage in Capitol Riverfront without emergency action By Michael Neibauer Verizon Wireless faces a "significant loss" of cell coverage along the South Capitol Street corridor in the area of Nationals Park as the lease for its current antennae site - the Capitol Skyline Hotel at 10 I St. SW - is about to expire and will not be re-upped. Verizon currently has 15 roof-mounted antennas on the top of the hotel, 106-feet above the ground. Those antennas, Verizon says in documents filed with the D.C. Board of Zoning Adjustment, "serve the important South Capitol corridor and the growing Capitol Riverfront neighborhood which has office, retail and residential uses as well as the National's stadium." http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2016/11/10/verizon-faces-significant-loss-of-cell-coverage-in.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <cd7991ed-b80b-4e75-bdac-0266794eb04c@googlegroups.com> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:33:16 -0800 (PST) From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: A look inside a Verizon switch location On Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 10:55:24 AM UTC-4, Bill Horne wrote: > Guilty-pleasure department - > I don't know why this TV report delights me, but it does: a local > ing=C3=83=C2=A9nue informs us that the building even has batteries to keep > things going if the power fails. Here is a Bell Telephone ad from Popular Science, May 1939, inviting subscribers to visit their telephone central office (pg 5): Call your business office to arrange a visit Historically, the Bell System always had tight security at all of its telephone buildings, including business and administrative offices. While visitors to central offices were permitted from time to time and there were even open houses, generally access was tightly restricted. In the 1970s onward, new telephone buildings were windowless or even constructed below ground. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20161111211753.GA1401@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 16:17:53 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Yahoo Warns Verizon Could Pull Out of 4.8B Deal by Alyssa Newcomb It's possible Verizon may say, "Thanks, but no thanks" when it comes to its planned Yahoo acquisition, based on information in Yahoo's latest SEC filing. "There is no assurance" the $4.8 billion merger will be "consummated in a timely manner or at all," wrote Yahoo in Wednesday's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/yahoo-warns-verizon-could-pull-out-4-8b-deal-n682126 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 12 Nov 2016