---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20180404174234.GA25532@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 13:42:34 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T questions credibility of key government data point in antitrust trial by Hadas Gold and Tom Kludt AT&T and Time Warner attorneys on Tuesday questioned the method and motivation behind a consulting firm's research used as a key factor in the government's lawsuit to stop AT&T and Time Warner's merger. Stefan Bewley, a director at the San Francisco-based consulting firm Altman Vilandrie & Company, was called to the stand by the Justice Department to discuss his firm's research, which was conducted last year on behalf of Charter, a cable and broadband company that is publicly opposed to AT&T's proposed $85 billion takeover of Time Warner. http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/03/media/att-time-warner-stefan-bewley-study/index.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180404174558.GA25594@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 13:45:58 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: FCC Rejects Request to Pause Transfer of Spectrum Licenses to Verizon By Andy Szal The Federal Communications Commission this week rejected a request from an industry group to halt Verizon's acquisition of spectrum licenses held by Straight Path Communications. The Competitive Carriers Association, which represents many smaller wireless carriers, has called for the FCC to reject moves by Verizon and AT&T to acquire spectrum holding companies and instead auction the spectrum in question. https://www.wirelessweek.com/news/2018/04/fcc-rejects-request-pause-transfer-spectrum-licenses-verizon -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180404173221.GA25497@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 13:32:21 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CenturyLink contributes orchestration developments to open source By Caroline Gabriel AT&T has led the charge in contributing inhouse developments to open source processes, in a bid to accelerate adoption of new software-driven network technologies, and increase its own influence over the whole ecosystem. But it is not the only carrier to take this approach. A smaller US player, CenturyLink, told the recent Open Networking Summit that it is planning to donate part of its NFVi orchestration process to the open source community. Adam Dunstan, VP of SDN/NFV engineering at CenturyLink, said that his team has extracted the Service Logic Interpreter from a module of the ONAP (Open Network Automation Protocol) platform. http://rethinkresearch.biz/articles/centurylink-contributes-orchestration-developments-to-open-source/ (Requires registration) -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <9269DB91-D33D-4905-BEEB-C36C60F68451@roscom.com> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 16:11:13 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: The MyFitnessPal Hack May Affect 150 Million People The MyFitnessPal Hack May Affect 150 Million People. It Could've Been Even Worse. One of the long-held fears about our wearable data-tracking habits is that the vast collection of information would be accessed by hackers. Beginning around 2013, the quantified self movement gained momentum. With Apple Watches on our wrists and apps like RunKeeper on our phones, we're tracking what time we go to bed, what food we eat, what medicine we take, even what routes we run from our front door. Online thieves have already targeted Fitbit owners in an attempt to defraud the wearable maker, and health care companies have been the target of numerous hacks in the past few years. Now popular nutrition- and fitness-tracking app MyFitnessPal has become the latest service - and one of the first in the health-and-activity-monitoring space - to reveal its data has been accessed in a hack. https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/myfitnesspal-hack-under-armour-data-breach.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <194ce882-9293-462c-8d82-b807fb5bb08a@googlegroups.com> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 14:15:00 -0700 (PDT) From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: History--Bell "Dew Line" defense network In the 1950s, AT&T (Bell System) contributed toward building a network of radar stations in the far north. LIFE magazine had various ads and articles about it: Western Electric advertisements, 1955, 1957: https://books.google.com/books?id=71YEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA11&dq=life%20dew%20bell&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=PT8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA73&dq=life%20dew%20bell&pg=PA73#v=onepage&q&f=false 1956 article https://books.google.com/books?id=R08EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA133&dq=life%20%22dew%20line%22&pg=PA133#v=onepage&q&f=false 1963 article https://books.google.com/books?id=Ik8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA18&dq=life%20%22dew%20line%22&pg=PA18#v=onepage&q&f=false ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20180404175401.GA25789@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 13:54:01 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon Testing Drones for Cell Service By Paul Bertorelli As airborne drones find ever more applications, Verizon is testing unmanned aircraft to provide cellphone service after a natural disaster. The 200-pound drones are being used in the latest in a series of tests Verizon has been conducting since 2016, according to USA Today. The aircraft, which carry equipment called a femtocell, can be deployed quickly to provide focused cell coverage to an area that has lost terrestrial coverage because of storms, fires or other damage. The drones are capable of flight times between 12 and 16 hours and are powered by a 3 hp gasoline engine driving a tractor prop. They're designed to fly at 3000 feet and below. https://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Verizon-Testing-Drones-for-Cell-Service-230562-1.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 05 Apr 2018