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The Telecom Digest for Mon, 04 Jul 2022
Volume 41 : Issue 129 : "text" format

table of contents
Rural Arizona utility company facing questions after 911 outage
The Best and Worst Cities for AT&T in 2022
AT&T prevails in ad spat over Charter internet reliability claims

Message-ID: <20220703212415.D86E979A@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2022 21:24:15 +0000 (UTC) From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Rural Arizona utility company facing questions after 911 outage The internet was out for days, calls were affected, including 911 service. By Colleen Sikora Published: 5:35 PM MST June 28, 2022 ST JOHNS, Arizona - The Arizona Corporation Commission is having staff draft a list of steps Frontier Communications will need to take to prevent similar outages to one earlier this month in northeast Arizona. On June 11, a fiber line belonging to the utility company was shot by a shotgun, according to the Navajo County Sheriff's Office. https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/rural-arizona-utility-company-facing-questions-911-outage/75-2d51a636-95fa-4548-b152-874a4f906f5d -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)
Message-ID: <20220703214109.C0CFA79A@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2022 21:41:09 +0000 (UTC) From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: The Best and Worst Cities for AT&T in 2022 Curious about switching to AT&T? We tested the carrier's speed and reliability in cities across America to see how well it fares. By Sascha Segan June 30, 2022 AT&T was a firm third place in our 10,000-mile Best Mobile Networks road trip. While the carrier had excellent rural reliability - a real selling point for Big Blue and its faithful fans - its urban 5G network fell far below T-Mobile's and Verizon's on 5G speed. That may be about to change. AT&T's mid-band 5G network is slowly starting to spread nationwide, and it has performance much more like what we saw from T-Mobile and Verizon this year. By 2024 for sure, AT&T could be in a very different position. https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-best-and-worst-cities-for-att-in-2022 -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)
Message-ID: <20220703213402.7723879A@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2022 21:34:02 +0000 (UTC) From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: AT&T prevails in ad spat over Charter internet reliability claims By Diana Goovaerts June 28, 2022 10:25am AT&T won its latest battle with Charter Communications over marketing claims, with the National Advertising Division (NAD) recommending the latter discontinue advertisements which call into question the reliability of AT&T's internet service. The ruling followed AT&T's challenge of a Charter ad for its Spectrum service. The commercial in question claimed Spectrum won against "telephone internet companies" in terms of providing reliable and glitch-free internet service. NAD noted Charter's claim made no distinction between cable, copper and fiber services and recommended it discontinue advertising which included such a vague assertion. https://www.fiercetelecom.com/broadband/att-prevails-ad-spat-over-charter-internet-reliability-claims -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)

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