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The Telecom Digest
Monday, April 17, 2023

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Copyright © 2023 E. William Horne. All Rights Reserved.
Volume 42 Table of Contents Issue 107
Re: 5G infrastructure still demands subtlety, care and common sense
NCTC, AT&T partner to offer wireless service through small cable companies
More AT&T In Home Expert (IHX) Workers Join CWA
Re: This is my last year as Moderator
Message-ID: <-MidnQkRgu3Y16b5nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> Date: 15 Apr 2023 21:07:17 -0400 From: "retired1" <reedh@rmi.net> Subject: Re: 5G infrastructure still demands subtlety, care and common sense On 4/12/23 9:27 AM, The Telecom Digest wrote: > By Mike Dano [Moderator snip] > > *Why a school has a smokestack, I don't know*. > > https://www.lightreading.com/5g-and-beyond/5g-infrastructure-still-demands-subtlety-care-and-common-sense/a/d-id/784288 > Per https://washington.wyandotte.org/about-us the school was built in 1930, when heating was by coal-fired furnace. https://goo.gl/maps/6fZH7RzkWLbCv1xQ9
Moderator's Note
The Google Maps link shown above has a picture of the "smokestack" in quetion, and it's a great place to start a meaningful debate over the part that language plays in reporting.

Oxford defines a "Smokestack" as ...

"a chimney or funnel for discharging smoke from a locomotive, ship, factory, etc. and helping to induce a draft."

... but the TV station which reported on the opposition to the 5G antennas chose "Smokestack" instead of "Chimney," most likely to cater to their customers - the cellular carriers who buy all that advertising while they try to eliminate their pesky unionized workforces and change all our phone connections and Internet connections over to radio systems that will never require them to pay the technicians anything approaching a living wage, and in the bargain, break the ricebowls of the oh-so-irritating cable TV companies that don't have to pay for apiaries of overpaid apparatchiks.

After all, "Smokestacks" are high above the ground, far away from all those young minds and their all-too-uppity parents whom don't want their children turned into advertising automatons programmed to pester their elders for that oh-so-shiny-thing that they saw on their plasitc fantastic lover while they were learning how to be obedient, complient, predictable consumers - instead of taking time to play.

Copyright © 2023 E. William Horne. All Rights Reserved.

- Bill Horne
Message-ID: <20230413232037.GA23938@telecomdigest.us> Date: 13 Apr 2023 23:20:37 +0000 From: "The Telecom Digest" <submissions@telecom-digest.org> Subject: NCTC, AT&T partner to offer wireless service through small cable companies The deal allows small, rural cable operators the ability to bundle TV, wireless phone and Internet. By Matthew Keys The National Content & Technology Cooperative (NCTC) has struck a deal with AT&T that will allow smaller cable operators to offer wireless phone service. The partnership opens the door for NCTC’s 700-plus member regional, suburban and rural cable and telecommunication providers to bundle white label versions of AT&T’s wireless phone service with their existing cable television, home phone and broadband Internet products. https://thedesk.net/2023/04/nctc-att-partnership-wireless-phone-cable-tv-internet/
Message-ID: <u1a6gi$16kv9$1@dont-email.me> Date: 13 Apr 2023 20:24:50 -0400 From: "The Telecom Digest" <submissions@telecom-digest.org> Subject: More AT&T In Home Expert (IHX) Workers Join CWA Apr 13, 2023 - More AT&T In Home Expert (IHX) Workers Join CWA and other news AT&T In Home Experts Last week, AT&T In Home Expert (IHX) workers in Ponce, Puerto Rico, voted to join CWA. The workers, who will be a part of CWA Local 3010, join IHX workers across the country who are protected by a good, union contract. Their addition to CWA is the latest victory by the growing number of AT&T IHX workers building power with hundreds of thousands of workers at AT&T to organize and fight for a fair collective bargaining agreement. https://cwa-union.org/news/e-newsletter/2023-04-13
Message-ID: <XnsAFE7DD058CADDhueydlltampabayrrcom@135.181.20.170> Date: 16 Apr 2023 01:43:59 -0000 From: "David LaRue" <huey.dll@tampabay.rr.com> Subject: Re: This is my last year as Moderator "The Telecom Digest" <tdmoderator@telecomdigest.net> wrote in news:20230414175448.GA31924@telecomdigest.us: > To the readers, > > This will be my last year as Moderator of The Telecom Digest. For > personal reasons, I will resign as Moderator at the end of 2023. > > We need a new Moderator, and I hope he or she will be someone who can > take The Telecom Digest in a new direction. I'm going to do everything > I can to find the best candidate, but I'm going to need your help. > > The odds are that one of you is, or knows, the person who will be a > better and more effective Modertor going into the future, and I'm > eager to hear from you. > > If we can't find a new Moderator, The Telecom Digest will cease > publicaton at the end of this year. > > Bill Horne Thank you Bill Horne for your years of service to the community! David
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