---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20161120205605.GA767@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 15:56:05 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Apple accused of throtling data on iPhone 7 Update 11/19: Sources tell Recode that Apple purposely limited the LTE capability of the iPhone 7 on Verizon in order to make the handset similar across carriers. If you're looking for the fastest phone on Verizon, you may want to steer clear of the iPhone 7. According to researchers at Twin Prime Inc and Cellular Insights, Apple may be throttling its flagship phone on that network. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/apple-reportedly-throttling-verizon-iphone-120000534.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <5dc33c1kcou65ui9d02j4qf95j7hu7gci5@4ax.com> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 09:24:35 -0500 From: Pete Cresswell <PeteCress@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: FTC Do-Not-Call web page redesigned Per Bob Prohaska: >This seems a little overthought. What's wrong with using an answering >machine to pick up the line, recite the number reached and invite the >caller to leave a message? If somebody hears a recognized caller, they >can always pick up. We have to listen to 4 rings of the phone - basically stop whatever we are doing, listen for the pickup, and then decide. May sound trivial, but try going through that a dozen or more times per day. Maybe I'm just another closet Type-A.... but that's a non-starter for me. Also, it imposes a burden on legitimate callers because they have to wait through all that. - - Pete Cresswell ***** Moderator's Note ***** It is time. We have waited long enough. We have suffered more than enough. We don't have to take it anymore, and we should not have to. The Telecom Digest readership has the expertise, the tools, and the will to create a solution to this problem. WE CAN DO THIS! I think we should design and manufacture and sell an electronic butler which will demand a security code from any calling number which is not on a whitelist. Who's with me? Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <762200c1-5c41-4323-8ca4-6b8440247e5f@googlegroups.com> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 12:30:12 -0800 (PST) From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Hope everyone here has a wonderful holiday! Here is a holday greeting from Western Union, in Life magazine dated Nov 25, 1946, pg 151: https://books.google.com/books?id=cE0EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA151&dq=life%20%22have%20a%20happy%20day%20today%22&pg=PA151#v=onepage&q=life%20%22have%20a%20happy%20day%20today%22&f=false ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20161120225412.8393.qmail@ary.lan> Date: 20 Nov 2016 22:54:12 -0000 From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Subject: Re: FTC Do-Not-Call web page redesigned Telecom Digest Moderator wrote: >I think we should design and manufacture and sell an electronic butler >which will demand a security code from any calling number which is not >on a whitelist. My VoIP service throws that in for free, along with a spam scroring feature you can use to decide whether to ask for the security code. The code is only a random digit ("Press 3 to complete your call") but that's plenty to defeat the predictive dialers and robots. The spam calls get forwarded to Lenny. R's, John ***** Moderator's Note ***** Thanks for the info: please tell us more about it. 1. What's their name? 2. What is the usual price for a single line? 3. Can they serve phone numbers outside their own LATA? 4. Do they charge extra for long distance or voice mail? 5. What equipment would someone need to make it work? TIA. Bill Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Mon, 21 Nov 2016