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The Telecom Digest for Wed, 13 Jul 2022
Volume 41 : Issue 137 : "text" format

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Repeatedly Hacked T-Mobile Ramps Up The Sale Of User App Download And Behavior Data
Verizon Wireless Retail Workers in Flint, Mich., File for Union Election With Communications Workers of America
EC accepts Czech concessions from T-Mobile, O2

Message-ID: <20220713005100.B2FD4763@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:51:00 +0000 (UTC) From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Repeatedly Hacked T-Mobile Ramps Up The Sale Of User App Download And Behavior Data from the collect-ALL-the-things! dept Karl Bode - Mon, Jul 11th 2022 T-Mobile hasn't been what you'd call competent when it comes to protecting its customers' data. The company has been hacked numerous different times over the last few years, with hackers going so far as to ridicule the company's lousy security practices. A responsible company might slow down on data collection until it was certain it had figured out how to protect the data it collects. But this being the United States, where there's no real accountability for companies with lax privacy and security standards (outside of four days or so of mean Tweets), T-Mobile has announced that it's dramatically expanding its collection of user browsing and app download data. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/07/11/repeatedly-hacked-t-mobile-ramps-up-the-sale-of-user-app-download-and-behavior-data/ -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)
Message-ID: <20220713011844.1DE1F763@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 01:18:44 +0000 (UTC) From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Verizon Wireless Retail Workers in Flint, Mich., File for Union Election With Communications Workers of America Monday, July 11, 2022 FLINT, Mich. Verizon Wireless retail workers at two stores in Flint, Mich., filed for a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election today. The workers, who have faced years of poor working conditions, including understaffing, unlivable wages, and disrespect by corporate management, are seeking to be represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA). This group of Verizon Wireless retail workers, who operate two stores in the Flint area, is the latest to file for formal union representation and stand up to one of the most notoriously anti-union companies in the U.S. Last week, Verizon Express workers at two stores in Portland, Ore., filed for a union election. If Flint-based Verizon Wireless workers successfully win union rep- resentation, they will join hundreds of thousands of telecommunica- tions and customer service employees as members of CWA, including Verizon Wireless retail workers in the Seattle area who won a union election with CWA in April. The workers prevailed despite Verizons aggressive anti-union tactics, which included flying their in-house, union-busting team to Seattle the day after the workers publicly announced their organizing efforts and asked for voluntary recognition. https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/verizon-wireless-retail-workers-in-flint-mich-file-for-union-election-communications -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)
Message-ID: <20220713010043.72812763@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 01:00:43 +0000 (UTC) From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: EC accepts Czech concessions from T-Mobile, O2 The European Commission (EC) accepted changes proposed by Deutsche Telekom and PPF Group to a network-sharing agreement sealed between their respective subsidiaries in the Czech Republic, ending a six-year investigation. In a statement, EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager noted the commitments offered by the companies had now been made legally binding under antitrust rules. She added the pledges "will keep the benefits of network sharing whilst removing technical and financial disincentives to unilateral deployments and limiting information exchange." https://www.mobileworldlive.com/featured-content/top-three/ec-accepts-czech-concessions-from-t-mobile-o2 -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)

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