---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180909142923.GA11256@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 10:29:23 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon silent on reports that wireless chief Dunne could leave by Mike Dano Verizon officials declined to comment on a new report that said the head of the company's wireless business may leave. Specifically, the United Kingdom's Telegraph reported that Ronan Dunne, EVP and group president of Verizon's wireless business, recently visited the United Kingdom to discuss the potential of becoming the CEO of BT. The news comes amid efforts by BT to find a new chief executive and the recent appointment of Hans Vestberg as the CEO of Verizon. https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/verizon-silent-reports-wireless-chief-dunne-could-leave -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + The Telecom Digest depends on generous supporters like John Levine + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180909145308.GA11367@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 10:53:08 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: 1 out of 3 people shouldn't be getting free government phones Have you seen the blue tents throughout the City of Rochester? They're handing out free, government-funded cell phones paid for by you, the taxpayer. The Federal Lifeline program is funded by a fee tacked on to everyone's cell phone bill. The money is to help those is need, but an audit of the program reveals that's not always the case. https://www.whec.com/news/1-out-of-3-shouldnt-be-getting-free-government-phones/5048620/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + The Telecom Digest would not be possible without the generous support + + of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180909142325.GA11231@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 10:23:25 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Peeled onions and a Minus Touch: Verizon data breach digest lifts the lid on theft tactics The 2018 report gives us a glimpse of tactics hackers are using today in the name of data exfiltration. By Charlie Osborne Data breaches, successful cyberattacks, and hacking events are often shrouded in silence. Beyond the bare-bones facts, it is often difficult for companies which have become victims of such crimes -- as well as the external cybersecurity experts which perform forensics and damage control after -- to admit to more than they have to. https://www.zdnet.com/article/peeled-onions-and-a-minus-touch-verizon-data-breach-digest-lifts-the-lid-on-data-theft-tactics/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + The Telecom Digest would not be possible without the generous support + + of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <2ad421d51474ae927659b97262efbd76.squirrel@webmail.mishmash.com> Date: 8 Sep 2018 12:57:18 -0600 From: "Fred Atkinson" <fatkinson.remove-this@and-this-too.mishmash.com> Subject: Cannot Get Answer from Verizon Folks, I have an issue I need to get an answer from Verizon Wireless on. When I spoke to their customer service, they told me to write their support team at the following address and they would get it to the right person so I could get an answer: Verizon Wireless Correspondence Team Attn: Customer Service / Carrier Network Department P. O. Box 660108 Dallas, TX 75266-0108 I sent my first request to them on July 4th. I never got a reply either by mail, email, or phone. I sent a second request [for the same information] to them on August 7th. Still no reply of any kind. So on August 28th, I wrote them again and this time I copied the Verizon Corporate Headquarters with copies of my current and previous correspondences asking that they respond to my inquiry. This is the Corporate address that I used: Verizon Corporate Offices 1095 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10013-6797 It has been ten days and still no phone call, email, or reply. I consider this totally unacceptable. The very least I expect is a reply. Anyone have a suggestion as to how to get a response to my inquiry? I would never have believed this out of Verizon Wireless. Fred +--------------------------------------------------------------+ Who is John Galt? +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + The Telecom Digest depends on generous supporters like John Lewandowski + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180909143846.GA11294@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 10:38:46 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: This Week In Techdirt History: September 2nd → 8th from the depths-of-time dept Five Years Ago This week in 2013, the NSA revelations continued with the discovery that the US was launching hundreds of cyberattacks and that AT&T had employees embedded in the government to provide real-time phone call searches. The various excuses and half-measures were coming frequently, with a former agency boss saying surveillance is important but the NSA should just lie less, President Obama saying the NSA needs more checks and balances while simultaneously claiming the existing ones are working well, and the agency itself asserting that it only spies on bad people while leaving open a giant loophole that covers spying on everyone else. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180908/11191840602/this-week-techdirt-history-september-2nd-8th.shtml -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + The Telecom Digest depends on generous supporters like John Lewandowski + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Mon, 10 Sep 2018