| Message-ID: <20230323112241.GA1825804@telecomdigest.us>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 11:22:41 +0000
From: Telecom Digest Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Wyandotte parents meeting with T-Mobile to discuss 5G tower
on school building
By: Darren Cunningham, Matt Dale
WYANDOTTE, Mich. (WXYZ) — Tuesday night, parents in Wyandotte are
preparing to meet with T-Mobile to discuss a 5G cellphone tower built
atop Washington Elementary School.
7 Action News has followed this issue over the past several
weeks. We're told this is the first meeting involving T-Mobile.
In a letter sent to families on Monday, Superintendent Catherine Cost
said breaching the contract with T-Mobile could cost "millions" if
T-Mobile sues the district.
Josh Castmore has two daughters at Washington.
“Our ultimate concern is the safety of our kids," he told 7 Action
News.
https://www.wxyz.com/news/wyandotte-parents-meeting-with-t-mobile-to-discuss-5g-tower-on-school-building
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| Message-ID: <tvhao4$13dm3$2@dont-email.me>
Date: 23 Mar 2023 11:47:32 +0100
From: "Marco Moock" <mo01@posteo.de>
Subject: Re: Fiber to the Home
Am 22.03.2023 schrieb "David" <wb8foz@panix.com>:
> On 3/20/2023 9:05, Steven Fleckenstein, N2UBP wrote:
>
> > Frontier is not a very progressive telco. I haven't worked there
> > for several years, but I've never heard of someone being pushed
> > off of their service for fiber. It sounds like a marketing ploy
> > to push people to *buy* new service. I find it very unlikely that
> > they are shutting down copper POTS.
>
>
> Note Verizon *is* engaged in an aggressive campaign to migrate POTS
> users in FIOS-fed neighborhoods over. Their catch phrase is "Fiber is
> the only Fix." I was forced off two years ago.
>
> The reason, as told to me by a recent ex-employee, is money. Not just
> their decaying, East Germany-ish, level of outside copper plant, but
> the 5ESS's feeding those POTS users. They may be a sunk cost, but
> they have {significant} ongoing license fees on their software aka
> "Generic".
If they still use a 5ESS Switching System, I can completely understand
that the want to shut it down and move customers to VoIP.
It is possible to provide POTS ports on new MSANs, but many ISPs just
don't provide POTS anymore - the line cards are too expensive for the
small amount of users.
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| Message-ID: <20230323111544.GA1825768@telecomdigest.us>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 11:15:44 +0000
From: Telecom Digest Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Wyandotte 5G antenna debacle continues, T-Mobile and 2018
board president speak at recent school board meeting
By Terell Bailey
WYANDOTTE, MICH. (CBS DETROIT) - The ever-evolving story out of
Wyandotte continued Tuesday evening. Parents and guardians want a
T-mobile antenna gone from Washington Elementary School. During a
recent school board meeting, the board gave T-Mobile a chance to
speak.
Tense moments were shared, during the packed special school board
meeting. The potential exposure of radiation from the antenna is what
concerns parents. During Tuesday's meeting, T-Mobile reassured the
crowd the antenna is safe.
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/wyandotte-5g-antenna-debacle-continues-t-mobile-speaks-at-recent-school-board-meeting/
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| Message-ID: <20230323111141.GA1825639@telecomdigest.us>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 11:11:41 +0000
From: Bill Horne <malassimiQRMlation@gmail.com>
Subject: T-Mobile reps walk out of Wyandotte meeting as tempers
flare over cell site on school
By Dave Kinchen, David Komer and online producer
T-Mobile officials leave Wyandotte school board meeting early over
cell tower controversy
WYANDOTTE, Mich. (FOX 2) - A Wyandotte school board meeting with
T-Mobile moved along as planned Tuesday - until a representative and
other officials bailed on concerned parents.
The focus of the meeting was T-Mobile’s 5G tower on top of Washington
Elementary School and the deal the district entered into with the cell
phone provider.
"Oh they’re not taking questions," said one parent.
But parents followed them into the hallway and fired off their
concerns.
"This is our chance to talk to you, stand before us and answer our
questions," said one mother. "We’re not going to hurt you, trust
me. We just want to talk to you guys because we’ve been waiting to."
https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/t-mobile-reps-walk-out-of-wyandotte-meeting-as-tempers-flare-over-cell-site-on-school
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| Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.2303231350580.12753@panix3.panix.com>
Date: 23 Mar 2023 14:06:45 +0000
From: "danny burstein" <dannyb@panix.com>
Subject: FTC proposes simple "click to cancel" requirement
[FTC press release]
Federal Trade Commission Proposes Rule Provision Making it Easier for
Consumers to "Click to Cancel" Recurring Subscriptions and Memberships
Proposal seeks to make it as easy to cancel enrollment as it was to
sign up
March 23, 2023
The Federal Trade Commission today proposed a "click to cancel"
provision requiring sellers to make it as easy for consumers to cancel
their enrollment as it was to sign up. That is just one of several
significant updates the Commission is proposing to its rules regarding
subscriptions and recurring payments. The new click to cancel
provision, along with other proposals, would go a long way to rescuing
consumers from seemingly never-ending struggles to cancel unwanted
subscription payment plans for everything from cosmetics to newspapers
to gym memberships.
======
rest:
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/03/federal-trade-commission-proposes-rule-provision-making-it-easier-consumers-click-cancel-recurring
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
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| Message-ID: <tvhflr$13dm3$3@dont-email.me>
Date: 23 Mar 2023 13:11:39 +0100
From: "Marco Moock" <mo01@posteo.de>
Subject: Re: Wyandotte parents meeting with T-Mobile to discuss 5G
tower on school building
Am 23.03.2023 schrieb Telecom Digest Moderator
<telecomdigestsubmissions@telecom-digest.org>:
>
> In a letter sent to families on Monday, Superintendent Catherine
> Cost said breaching the contract with T-Mobile could cost "millions"
> if T-Mobile sues the district.
>
> Josh Castmore has two daughters at Washington.
>
> “Our ultimate concern is the safety of our kids,” he told 7 Action
> News.
All the same BS again and again over the years. Here in Walldorf,
Germany, ISPs planned to mount 4G/5G antennas on the roof of the city
hall - a petition was started by people who fear the radiation - but
still use mobile phones and WiFi, DECT cordless telephones.
I don't take them seriously at all. Many people who don't know
anything about the technology signed it because the just don't want
antennas in the middle of the town.
The result was that no antennas were mounted, so the coverage is still
bad - the next cellphone tower is next to the graveyard at the end of
the city.
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| Message-ID: <20230324023956.GA1831216@telecomdigest.us>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:39:56 +0000
From: Bill Horne <malassQRMimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: CA: Some T-Mobile customers in Plumas County without
service; no estimated time for restoration
By Editor
Plumas News reader Jenn Stetler as been without her T-Mobile cell
phone service for nearly two weeks and she is sharing what she has
learned with other individuals who use the same service provider. She
received information that the T-Mobile tower located on Radio Hill in
East Quincy was damaged by snow beginning on or about March 4 and went
completely out of service on March 11. Customers within Quincy and
East Quincy, including outlying areas in each direction toward the
next nearest towers, which are located in Graeagle, Greenville, and
Portola, are without service. T-Mobile has advised customers that
there is no estimated time of service restoration at this point, as
they are “unable to access the tower to make repairs due to weather
and other conditions.”
https://www.plumasnews.com/some-t-mobile-customers-without-service-no-estimated-time-for-restoration/
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| Message-ID: <tvioui$ps6$1@reader2.panix.com>
Date: 23 Mar 2023 23:56:02 -0000
From: "Paul W. Schleck" <pschleck@panix.com>
Subject: 'It's just overwhelming': Community supports Bellevue
(Nebraska) restaurant struggling without internet, phone service
"BELLEVUE, Neb. - On a Tuesday in late March, the lunch-rush line at
John's Grecian Delight is out the door. The packed house is armed with
an appetite and, as one patron put it, 'cash. Lots of cash.'
Paper money, because for more than two weeks, John Sakkas and his
daughter, Dina, have been without a working credit card machine, with
both internet and the phone line down.
'Since March 6, every day, we've called CenturyLink. Apparently, there's
a cable that they need to repair or replace, and it never got
escalated. So we're still waiting on CenturyLink to come,' said Dina
Sakkas."
https://www.ketv.com/article/omaha-community-supports-struggling-bellevue-restaurant/43391861
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Paul W. Schleck
pschleck@panix.com
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| Message-ID: <20230324005335.GA1829741@telecomdigest.us>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:53:35 +0000
From: Bill Horne <malassQRMimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: CWA Organizing Update
March 23, 2023
Verizon Wireless
On Monday, workers rallied in Seattle to celebrate Verizon Wireless
Worker Jesse Mason's return to work. Verizon illegally fired Mason in
early 2022 in retaliation for his union organizing activity. In
response, CWA filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge with the National
Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against Verizon Wireless.
In a win for Mason, his co-workers, and fellow organizers, the NLRB
formally issued a complaint alleging the company’s actions broke the
law. After months of back and forth, Mason and Verizon Wireless
reached a settlement that includes Mason’s reinstatement at his
Seattle and Shoreline stores, as well as compensation for back pay and
damages.
https://cwa-union.org/news/organizing-update-193
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