---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20181013201823.GA3162@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 16:18:23 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Robert Reich: Living in a New Gilded Age ... why does the United States have the highest broadband prices among advanced nations and the slowest speeds? Because more than 80 percent of Americans have no choice but to rely on their local cable company for high capacity wired data connections to the Internet - usually Comcast, AT&T, or Verizon. And these corporations are among the most politically powerful in America. (In a rare exception to Trump's corporate sycophancy, the Justice Department is appealing a district court's approval of AT&T's merger with Time Warner.) https://yubanet.com/opinions/robert-reich-living-in-a-new-gilded-age/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20181013200428.GA3054@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 16:04:28 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Nevada City, CA OKs urgency ordinance regulating telecommunications Nevada City's city council has adopted an interim urgency ordinance regarding the regulation of wireless facilities. The emergency ordinance, designed to help the city retain control over who installs wireless arrays in town, went into effect immediately and will last 45 days. https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/nevada-city-oks-urgency-ordinance-regulating-telecommunications/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20181012214025.GA32657@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:40:25 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon Sends Employees to Infosys with a Timebomb Tied We covered the deal between Verizon and Infosys in 3 different articles (Verizon Infosys Deal - What is Wrong in Terming it Slave Trade? and Verizon Infosys Slave Trade : US Employees Worst Affected), in the last 2 weeks. We talked about various issues faced by Indian employees who are being transferred to Infosys. In our third article, we promised to discuss about the impact on US employees. This article talks about issues faced by US employees: "Those employees aren't eligible for severance payments and won't receive their 2018 bonus if they are offered a job at Infosys and don't accept it, according to materials given to the employees." http://new-democrats.com/verizon-sends-employees-to-infosys-with-a-timebomb-tied/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 14 Oct 2018