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KY: Officials: Verizon fixes connectivity issues with 911 [telecom]
By Sarah Magin Published: 8:11 AM EDT November 2, 2022 Updated: 8:46 AM EDT November 2, 2022 LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Verizon has fixed their issues with customers not being able to call 911, Louisville...
 
FCC Seeks Comments On Proposed Anti-Robotext Rules [telecom]
by Michael P. Donahue , Robert H. Jackson and Ronald E. Quirk, Jr. The Federal Communications Commission ("FCC" or "Commission") recently released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NPRM") proposing...
 
FCC Enforcement Bureau Orders 7 Providers To Show Cause Why They Should Not Have Traffic Blocked For Alleged Non-Compliance With Robocall Mitigation Rules [telecom]
by Michael P. Donahue , Robert H. Jackson and Ronald E. Quirk, Jr. The FCC's Robocall Response Team today announced first-of-their-kind Enforcement Bureau orders to begin removing seven voice service...
 
CALL TO ACTION! Seeking Additional Stakeholders Interested In Filing Joint Comments In FCC's RoboText Mitigation Rulemaking Proceeding; Must Act Fast! [telecom]
by Ronald E. Quirk, Jr. As delineated in a recent Client Advisory, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC" or "Commission") is proposing new rules to mitigate malicious robotext campaigns. The...
 
T-Mobile will soon start charging $35 activation fees for (almost) every transaction [telecom]
By Tyler Lee More often than not, the price for an advertised product or service isn't necessarily the only price you'll have to pay. For example, sometimes joining a gym will require you to pay a...
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T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T find a surprise growth area in Q3 [telecom]
By Mike Dano Financial analysts have been preparing for a slowdown in the US wireless market for months now. However, it has not materialized, and one big reason may be the surprising number of...
 
Right Wingers 'Fight' AT&T By Embracing 'Anti-Woke' Cell Carrier...That's Just Rebranded AT&T [telecom]
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - from the anti-woke-brain-broke dept Tue, Oct 25th 2022 - Karl Bode You'd be pretty hard pressed to find a company that leans more right wing than AT&T....
 
Mission Broadcasting Calls AT&T 'Intractable' In Letter To Government Officials [telecom]
By Jon Lafayette Station managers accuses satellite company of trying to 'bully a small local broadcaster' In the midst of a retransmission fee dispute with DirecTV, Mission Broadcasting has prepared...
 
AT&T phone service frustration after loved one dies [telecom]
By Amy Davis AT&T seems to not have access to important records HOUSTON - You might remember the days when everyone had a landline or maybe you still have one. About 75% of older Americans still have...
 
Don't fear the flip phone: My year of living archaically gave me back more than I lost [telecom]
"Do you have it ironically?" a woman new to Brooklyn asked about my distinctly not-smart phone By Randyn Charles Bartholomew In the early summer of last year, after I'd gone into a few stores that...
 
Jan. 6 committee to SCOTUS: Ward's phone records are necessary to investigation [telecom]
By Kyle Cheney, Nicholas Wu and Josh Gerstein The House's Jan. 6 select committee is urging the Supreme Court to reject efforts by Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward to shield her phone records from...
 
Please feedback suggestions about our latest version of the online Digest [telecom]
There's a new version of the online Telecom Digest now available for viewing. PLease take a look at both previous versions, and the new one, and feeback your opinions using the link on the index page,...
 
Salzano at it again [telecom]
Long-term Telecom Digest readers probably remember Thomas N. Salzano as the fellow who ran Norvergence, a company which sold long distance services as part of a Ponzi scheme, in addition signing...
 
The major space players and diverging strategies in the race to connect your smartphone via satellites [telecom]
By Michael Sheetz The race to provide high-speed internet from satellites is well underway – but another, more ambitious competition, to connect directly from space to devices like smartphones,...
 
— Top Scams & Phishing Schemes of the Week [telecom]
This week we’ve found a large number of scams that you need to watch out for, including ones relating to Lululemon, Zales, Kay Jewelers, T-Mobile, DHL, Capital One, and Microsoft. Would you have...