The Telecom Digest
Friday, September 9, 2022

Copyright © 2022 E. William Horne. All Rights Reserved.
Volume 41 Table of Contents Issue 191
Re: My VoIP phone is dead
Re: FCC Does The Bare Minimum: Asks Wireless Carriers To Be Honest About Location Data
Verizon's Small Business Survey finds inflation and supply chain top concerns
Multiple Layers Of TCPA Defense Remain Important After Duguid
Message-ID: <20220908164443.GA270962@telecomdigest.us> Date: 8 Sep 2022 16:44:43 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malassimiQRMlation@gmail.com> Subject: Re: My VoIP phone is dead On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 08:49:48PM +0000, Bill Horne wrote: > My callcentric VoIP phone stopped working yesterday, and it's still out. > > Yesterday (Sunday, 9/4), my VoIP phone went dead. It's a three line > phone, and there are two VoIP services I use it for: Callcentric, > where I get my "home" phone number, and the Hamshack Hotline, a free > VoIP service for Amateur Radio operators like me. They both quit at > the same time. Yesterday (Wednesday, 9/7), I got a call from someone at "Galaxy Cablevision," and he told me that my VoIP lines are out-of-service because of "Cee-Gee NAT." He did his best to convince me that the ports used for the "new" Internet layout that my local cable company is using can't be "mapped" to my VoIP phone, and that there was nothing he could do about the problem. I did my best to explain to him that I used to be a Certified NetWare Engineer™, and that I have been the Moderator of the Telecom Digest for about fifteen years, and that my job gives me extraordinary access to world-class experts on the subject of Network Address Translation, the TCP three-way handshake, and VoIP in general, and that there was no "port mapping" involved. I told him that I didn't need any ports mapped, and that such capability wasn't what I had sought after. He told me that my problem would be solved by a "Fixed IP Address," but when I advised him that I wasn't interested in paying for a capability which isn't guaranteed to solve the problem, he said he'd do some more research and get back to me. So, I'd appreciate your help: please point me to a source of easy-to-understand information about current VoIP practice, especially as it relates to NAT of any flavor, and let me thank you in advance for your help. I'd also like to know if there are more current versions of the story about being born at night in the back of a turnip truck, since I'd like to have answers ready if and when someone at Galaxy Cablevision calls me again. Bill Horne P.S. I'll also call Alexis Rosen at Panix, and ask if he can support the "OpenVPN" capability of my ASUS router. Here's hoping ... -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me diretly)
Message-ID: <20220908155520.GA270539@telecomdigest.us> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 15:55:20 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malassimiQRMlation@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FCC Does The Bare Minimum: Asks Wireless Carriers To Be Honest About Location Data >From the "Slopping the Hogs" department, which is the way that former Congressman Barney Frank used to refer to his biennial efforts at sincerity ... Our electred representatives have ordered the FCC to do its best to create an intimation of the vague posibility of further exploration of the chances for them to start doing their duty. It's time for another election, which is when our public servants go around promising the hogs voters that they're doing important things - like protecting their phony-baloney jobs. The Democratic party - a word I've always thought should be applied as described in Google's first listed meaning of "a social gathering of invited guests, typically involving eating, drinking, and entertainment." - is decrying "MAGA Republicans" at the same time it tries to win a race-to-the-bottom of the list of the electorate's worst fears. Are you afraid of your boss knowing you attended a protest during your college days? The FCC is on the job, busily toiling to create the impression that it cares how much your boss or your cow-orkers or the company Chairmen know about what you did before you accepted their employment offer. Are you afraid of potential employers knowing that you visited Planned Parenthood before you came in for the interview about the new work-at-home opportunity? The FCC is on the job, with their noses to the government grindstone, toiling to create the impression that "someone" in our nation's capital actually cares about you or your future - or anything other than preserving their phony-baloney jobs. Are you afraid of your company's benefit coordinator finding out that you visited an Oncologist? Well, the FCC is on the job, sparing no expense to create the impression that you deserve to take advantage of the health insurance you've been paying for during all those years you've been lifting the corporate barge and toteing the corporate bale. Better believe it, suckers: the Dem-o-crats have you and your future in mind - until one millisecond after you leave the voting booth in November. After that, they'll go back to trading favors with their Republican friends and practicing speeches with their image consultants, and accepting free drinks and free jet rides and free stays at exclusive and very discreet beach resorts, from the corporate lobbyists they pretend to abhor whenever the cameras are running. Of course, they'll also go back to telling the FCC to get busy moving the government goods: every single iota of the public airwaves that can be sold, so that there will be more money for bridges-to-nowhere, more money for shiny things that the Generals and the Admirals can brag about at the Officers club, and more money for the jobs they'll award to their campaign consultants and image consultants and pollsters during the "off season" when they don't have to slop the hogs. Bill Horne -- (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)
Message-ID: <20220908162018.GA270920@telecomdigest.us> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 16:20:18 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malassimiQRMlation@gmail.com> Subject: Verizon's Small Business Survey finds inflation and supply chain top concerns BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - Verizon Business today released findings from its third annual State of Small Business Survey, conducted by Morning Consult. With responses from more than 600 small and midsize busi- nesses, the data shows that challenges such as inflation, labor and the U.S. economy are top concerns. Despite this, businesses remain upbeat regarding their future, with 56% of small and midsize busi- nesses believing they will be better a year from now than they are today. Other areas of concern include cybersecurity and businesses' outlook for the 2022 holiday season. https://tinyurl.com/2p9fvf7p
Message-ID: <20220908161605.GA270776@telecomdigest.us> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 16:16:05 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malassimiQRMlation@gmail.com> Subject: Multiple Layers Of TCPA Defense Remain Important After Duguid By Matt Knowles , Saba Bajwa and Amy C. Pimentel The Supreme Court's 2021 decision in Facebook v. Duguid1 changed the landscape of Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation. For years prior, aggressive plaintiffs had stretched the TCPA's antiquated language defining automatic telephone dialing systems (ATDS) well beyond its breaking point. The ATDS definition is critical, as use of an ATDS triggers consent requirements under Section 227(b) of the TCPA and failure to comply can result in catastrophic liability. Duguid emphasized that Congress meant what it said in defining an ATDS, and its definition must be applied as written. An ATDS is defined as "equipment which has the capacity - (A) to store or produce telephone numbers to be called, using a random or sequential number generator; and (B) to dial such numbers." The Supreme Court held that the phrase "using a random or sequential number generator" was meant to qualify the entire preceding phrase, such that an automatic dialing system must use random or sequential number generators to either store or produce telephone numbers in order to qualify as an ATDS. https://tinyurl.com/2p8nr4ad
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