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Date: 27 May 2023 21:17:25 -0000
From: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@bimajority.org>
Subject: Re: Congress moves to preserve AM radio in cars
In article <b9f59bd7860a49c59b93fcf54cc0f2ca@mishmash.com>,
Fred Atkinson <fatkinson@mishmash.com> wrote:
>> Garrett Wollmann <wollman@bimajority.org> wrote:
>>> Fred Atkinson <fatkinson@mishmash.com> wrote:
>>> You are splitting hairs here in a semantics issue.
>
>>> Suppose the cellular infrastructure is down due to an attack on our
>>> nation.
>
>>> Think you are going to get those alerts then?
>
>> Such an attack would also take out the broadcast infrastructure,
>> which is a lot more physically concentrated and easier to disrupt.
>
> Maybe, or maybe not.
>
> No doubt some of the stations would [go] down.
>
> But maybe not all of them.
>
> They are not entirely dependent upon network programming.
You might be surprised how many radio stations, after conditioned
analog lines and ISDN ceased to be available for new installs from
ILECs, came to depend on the Internet for their studio-transmitter
links, especially now when it's audio-over-IP all the way from the
mixing console to the transmitter.
Many radio transmitter sites have just a commodity Internet connection
that feeds their remote control and the transmitter: no Internet =
station off the air. More profitable stations, especially those that
haven't moved around a lot, may have an analog microwave path for
backup, or even an optical wide-area network, but this costs a lot
more money and is hard for many engineering managers to justify to
barely-profitable companies constantly seeking to cut costs.
The "primary entry point" stations, of which there are currently 77,
have received substantial capital investment from FEMA to support the
survivability of their transmitter sites. These stations monitor a
FEMA radio system for presidential emergency messages, but most people
do not listen to them, and would depend on other stations receiving
and relaying emergency alerts. Each of these stations has an
emergency studio that would allow station personnel to go on the air
-- if they could get to the transmitter site -- as well as a diesel
generator with a multi-day fuel supply.
-GAWollman
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Date: 18 May 2023 13:28:52 -0400
From: "The Telecom Digest" <digest-replies@telecomdigest.net>
Subject: Telephone And Texting Compliance News: Federal Trade
Commission Takes On Overseas Robocallers
by Russell H. Fox and Jonathan P. Garvin
The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") announced that it is increasing
its efforts to stop illegal robocalls that originate overseas from
reaching Americans' phones. On April 11, 2023, the FTC said that it
would be implementing "Project Point of No Entry" ("Project PoNE"),
which targets Voice over Internet Protocol ("VoIP") service providers
that serve as "point of entry" or gateway providers. Under Project
PoNE, the FTC plans to: "1) identif[y] point of entry VoIP service
providers that are routing or transmitting illegal call traffic, 2)
demand they stop doing so and warn [that] their conduct may violate
the Telemarketing Sales Rule, and 3) monitor them to pursue
recalcitrant providers, including by opening law enforcement
investigations and filing lawsuits when appropriate."
https://www.mondaq.com/article/news/1314512?q=1803232&n=789&tp=10&tlk=26&lk=95
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