---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180913043029.GA27231@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:30:29 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: There's a Facebook page for everything Well, I guess there's a Facebook page for everything - including people who don't like AT&T. https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Telecommunication-Company/ATT-Sucks-230368933646924/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + The Telecom Digest depends on generous supporters like John Lewandowski + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180913031156.GA26792@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 23:11:56 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: What to Do When Your Phone or Tablet Won't Charge If your phone just stops charging, even when it's plugged in, it doesn't mean it's time to shop for a new one. Here are a few simple steps you can take before calling the pros or opening your wallet. By Whitson Gordon You go to plug in your phone, and - you're not getting any power. Maybe it says "Not Charging" in the corner. Maybe it says it's charging, but the battery doesn't seem to be going up at all. Or maybe your phone isn't even recognizing that it's plugged in. Whatever the case, here are a few troubleshooting tips to get your phone juiced back up. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/smarter-living/what-to-do-phone-tablet-wont-charge.html?emc=edit_nn_20180912&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=8417658120180912&te=1 -- 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: <20180913025828.GA26729@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 22:58:28 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Sham telecoms created to scam AT&T must pay back ill-gotten gains Sham companies billed AT&T $13 million for services not provided. By Jon Brodkin AT&T has won a $252,000 judgment from the remnants of sham telecoms that were created in order to bill legitimate phone companies for services they didn't provide. The companies billed AT&T $13 million, but AT&T figured out the scam after paying only a fraction of that. The defendants, All American Telephone Co., e-Pinnacle Communications, Inc., and ChaseCom, operated out of Utah and Nevada and had all shut down by 2010. The Federal Communications Commission granted AT&T's complaint against the companies in March 2013 and last week ordered the defendants to pay back the $252,496.37 they got from AT&T. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/sham-telecoms-created-to-scam-att-must-pay-back-ill-gotten-gains/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I used to code PL/I in the NYNEX billing application: we billed over 6 Billion a year, back in 1994. The security paradigm was simple: we assumed that every record we received was valid. There were lots of tests for valid values in the various fields of each record, but no way to verify if it had been sent from a company that actually provided the service being billed for. It was a leftover from the "One Bell, One System" days when the executives faced Bell Labs while they prayed. Looks like nothing much has changed. Bill -- 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: <20180913032903.GA26832@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 23:29:04 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T to pay $7.75 million for allowing sham directory- assistance calls By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - AT&T Inc will pay $7.75 million in refunds and fines after federal investigators found it allowed unauthorized third-party charges related to phony directory-assistance service on its customers' telephone bills, U.S. regulators said on Monday. The fraud was uncovered by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration while investigating two Ohio companies for drug-related crimes and money laundering, the Federal Communications Commission said. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-at-t-fcc-idUSKCN10J1TX -- 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 Fri, 14 Sep 2018