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Saturday, March 25, 2023

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Volume 42 Table of Contents Issue 84
Infuriated parents to protest cell tower placement at Wyandotte elementary school
T-Mobile and Verizon Take Different Paths Down a Dark Road
Plan To Jam Mobile Phones In Schools Is Madness
Outage might prevent 911 calls for some, Harrison County OEM says
Re: CA: Some T-Mobile customers in Plumas County without service; no estimated time for restoration
Message-ID: <20230324193547.GA1836491@telecomdigest.us> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 19:35:47 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Infuriated parents to protest cell tower placement at Wyandotte elementary school WYANDOTTE (WWJ) - A group of concerned Downriver parents are gathering Friday morning to protest a T-Mobile cell phone tower and generator that appeared right on top of an elementary school earlier this month. While organizers say the event will be peaceful, it comes after weeks of mounting frustration, explosive meetings and safety concerns expressed by residents and parents regarding the controversial location of the 5G tower that will be soon be activated. https://www.audacy.com/wwjnewsradio/news/local/parents-protest-cell-tower-placement-at-wyandotte-school -- (Please remove QRM for direct replies)
Message-ID: <20230324191838.GA1836321@telecomdigest.us> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 19:18:38 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: T-Mobile and Verizon Take Different Paths Down a Dark Road T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon all claim to be the best, but a major watchdog has big questions. By Daniel Kline Most wireless ads involve one company claiming to be better than its rivals. Some of those assertions are based on surveys, and when you look at the data, in some ways AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile all have viable claims to the throne. But the winner truly depends on which data you choose to highlight. https://www.thestreet.com/technology/t-mobile-and-verizon-take-different-paths-down-a-dark-road -- (Please remove QRM for direct replies)
Message-ID: <20230324192309.GA1836359@telecomdigest.us> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 19:23:09 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Plan To Jam Mobile Phones In Schools Is Madness By: Lewin Day Mobile phones in schools. If you’re a teacher, school staffer, or a parent, you’ve likely got six hundred opinions about this very topic, and you will have had six hundred arguments about it this week. In Australia, push has come to shove, and several states have banned the use of mobile phones during school hours entirely. Others are contemplating doing the same. In the state of New South Wales, the current opposition party has made it clear it will implement a ban if elected. Wildly, the party wants to use mobile phone jamming technology to enforce this ban whether students intend to comply or not. Let’s take a look at how jammers work in theory, and explore why using them in schools would be madness in practice. https://hackaday.com/2023/03/24/plan-to-jam-mobile-phones-in-schools-is-madness/ -- (Please remove QRM for direct replies)
Message-ID: <20230324193840.GA1836527@telecomdigest.us> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 19:38:40 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Outage might prevent 911 calls for some, Harrison County OEM says by: Sam Kirk CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — The Harrison County Office of Emergency Management (OEM) announced that an outage may prevent cell phone users with certain providers from making emergency phone calls. A Facebook post from the office says that cell phone users on AT&T and T-Mobile networks may not be able to make 911 calls. The post was made around 10:30 a.m. Friday morning. It said that several counties are affected but did not specify which ones. It also said that Frontier has been aware of the issue. https://www.wboy.com/news/harrison/outage-might-prevent-911-calls-for-some-harrison-county-oem-says/ -- (Please remove QRM for direct replies)
Message-ID: <IA0PR19MB8129798B3168A9E97AC2FAB2F5849@IA0PR19MB8129.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> Date: 24 Mar 2023 03:53:28 +0000 From: "Fred Atkinson" <fatkinson@mishmash.com> Subject: Re: CA: Some T-Mobile customers in Plumas County without service; no estimated time for restoration On Thursday, March 23, 2023 7:44 PM, Bill Horne wrote: > 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/ +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Lame excuse. When I was doing microwave work for MCI, we had one site that the engineers knew could be completely inaccessible due to extremely heavy snowfalls. I cannot now remember the location. The shelter could be buried so deeply in snow that it could not be reached through the normal access door. I only saw a picture of this site. I never actually visited it. They built an upward crawl tower in the roof of the microwave shelter. It extended high enough [above the shelter] that the top would always be above the snow level. There was a locked door at the top. An engineer could unlock that door and climb downward into the shelter. The result was that the field engineers could always get inside of it even in the worst possible snow weather. I'd say T-Mobile engineers were not thinking about the weather elements at that tower location [when they designed the site]. If they had been thinking about that, the field engineers could have accessed the site even under these conditions. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure! Regards, Fred Atkinson
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