On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Christopher Morrow wrote:
spof
the vita folk have a history of 'not really understanding large scale
compute/network operations' :(
Reportedly, the VITA data center and Virginia voter registration system is
back up.
According to VITA, a Verizon fiber was struck during a
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Nuno Vieira via NANOG wrote:
So... my question IS: Is an European company (or whatsoever foreign
wholesale company) WITHOUT ANY customers in USA liable to pay those
taxes to the carrier ?
Those aren't customer taxes, they are company surcharges with names to
discourage
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
my reaction was more like
Surprise, surprise, surprise...
S.N.A.F.U.
Other SNAFUs, Georgia had technical problems with its voter database
systems during the first couple of days of early voting. Expect all sorts
of minor problems throughout the
To keep this on topic, no mention of any candidate or political party.
Networks can impact elections, and elections can impact network operators.
If @netblocks publishes a special report about your
country's elections, that's a huge indicator of network (and election)
problems. In the 195
FCC Announces All Of Puerto Rico To Have Access To High-Speed Broadband
Service As A Result Of Uniendo A Puerto Rico Fund
Nearly a Third of Locations Will Get Speeds of At Least 1 Gbps with All
Other Locations Getting Speeds of At Least 100 Mbps
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-announces-u
FCC Issues Staff Report On T-Mobile Outage
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-issues-staff-report-t-mobile-outage-0
The outage was initially caused by an equipment failure and then
exacerbated by a network routing misconfiguration that occurred when
T-Mobile introduced a new router into its n
AT&T statement regarding the intentional explosion in Nashville TN
"Service for some customers in Nashville and the surrounding areas may be
affected by damage to our facilities from the explosion this morning. We
are in contact with law enforcement and working as quickly and safely as
possi
On Fri, 25 Dec 2020, cosmo wrote:
The internet is buzzing with speculation about this. According to CNN the RV
was at 2nd and Commerce st, which puts it 1-block away from the ATT
building. If it were the target, I'd imagine they would have parked it
closer.
Folks are confusing two different AT&
Additional AT&T statement (5 pm CST)
https://about.att.com/pages/disaster_relief/nashville.html
We’re putting the full-force of our disaster recovery efforts into
responding to this morning’s explosion in Nashville, including bringing in
regional resources and our National Disaster Recovery
AT&T statement says nearly all services have been restore in Nashville as
of Monday, 5pm CST
They are working on permanent repairs.
https://about.att.com/pages/disaster_relief/nashville.html
AT&T's Network Disaster Recovery group faces management questions nearly
every year to justifying
A bunch of quotes from former government officials. Not much from
industry.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/nashville-bombing-is-a-potent-reminder-that-communications-systems-remain-at-risk-from-attack/2020/12/28/d734b76c-4949-11eb-839a-cf4ba7b7c48c_story.html
Nashville bom
The FCC published its annual report on state 911 fees
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-issues-annual-report-state-911-fees-1
The report finds that in 2019, states and territories collected more than
$3 billion in 911 fees, and more than $200 million of that funding was
diverted for uses other
Its impressive for nearly all (not all) service was restored in central
Tennessee, southern Kentucky, and northern Alabama within a few days.
It took months to repair Puerto Rico telecommunications after Hurricanes
Irma and Maria. Puerto Rico lost over 95% of telecommunication services,
althou
On Tue, 29 Dec 2020, Peter E. Fry wrote:
911 services are certainly not treated as critical as the public is
led to believe. Not that anyone here is surprised by this, but
hopefully positive change can come out of this otherwise horrible
event.
The folks on this list likely know where the centr
The House on Monday and the Senate on Friday have overriden the
President's veto of the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2021 passing it into law.
Among the NDAA's various sections, it includes the Reliable Emergency
Alert Distribution Improvement (READI) Act. The READI A
Department of Commerce OIG review of FirstNet request to tour AT&T GNOC
https://www.oversight.gov/sites/default/files/oig-reports/DOC/OIG-21-016-I.pdf
Continued FirstNet Authority Management Attention is Needed to Address
Control Environment Weaknesses
[...]
FirstNet Authority disagreed tha
On Thu, 7 Jan 2021, Christopher Morrow wrote:
almost all of this seems like ... really not worth the time for
external people to bother with.
which is maybe why: "Sure, you wanna visit? pay me" (Oh, now you dont'
want to visit? ok, cool!)
I'm imagining a bunch of MBA's at large carriers thinkin
The Uganda Communications Commission has issued a shutdown order for the
operation of all Internet gateways in Uganda beginning January 13, 2021
until further notice.
I can't access the official Uganda Communications Commission website, but
this appears to be a copy of the order
https://t
Some people think its funny to ghost subscribe email addresses, and
the NANOG mailing list auomation doesn't catch them in the verification
process.
Most of the time, if you send a note to the mailing list admins, they will
quickly unsubscribe the address. Although sometimes the problem em
About 5 days later, from January 13, 2021, through January 18,
2021, Uganda begins to restore some internet services in the
nation. Most social media sites appear to still be blocked.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55705404
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni claimed Saturday that he h
In 2016, U.N. Human Rights Council, resolution A/HRC/RES/32/13: "condemns
unequivocally measures to intentionally prevent or disrupt access to or
dissemination of information online in violation of international human
rights law and calls on all States to refrain from and cease such
measures".
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, Mark Tinka wrote:
Satellite is hard to control, and there are several ways to get it into a
country and have it function for purpose without any real drama.
It's where we came from :-)...
There is only one problem in engineering -- scaling.
Country internet shutdowns nev
Not as bad as Myanmar (14%), Internet connectivity in Texas has been
declining today. According to NetBlocks, which normally monitors
government imposed outages, reports network connectivity at 68% in Texas.
https://netblocks.org/
Texas operates a separate electric grid, with limited intercon
Poweroutage.us posted a terrific map, showing the jurisdictional borders
of the Texas power outages versus the storm related power outages
elsewhere in the country.
https://twitter.com/PowerOutage_us/status/1361493394070118402
Sometimes infrastructure planning failures are not due to "natu
Electric prices on the Texas spot market are $9,000/MWh. Normally they
are less than $15/MWh. During the summer months, Texas spot market prices
have gone to zero because it has excess summertime wind turbine capacity.
I suspect those are computer generated artificial prices, because there
On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, Cory Sell via NANOG wrote:
adoption. Sure, wind isn’t perfect, but looks like solution relied on failed
in a massive way.
Strange the massive shortages and failures are only in one state.
The extreme cold weather extends northwards across many states, which
aren't repo
On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, Rod Beck wrote:
Are the power lines buried like in Europe where I live?
Rolling blackouts in Texas (or elsewhere) are not caused by storm damage.
Rolling blackouts are administrative actions (turn off power, turn on
power) taken by the system operator. They can "turn on"
Since you said operational issues, instead of just outage...
How about MCI Worldcom's 10-day operational disaster in 1999.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/23/network.nono.idg/
How not to handle a network outage
[...]
MCI WorldCom issued an alert to its sales force, which was given the
Biggest internet operational SUCCESS
1. Secure Shell (SSH) replaced TELNET. Nearly eliminated an entire class
of security problems on the Internet. But then HTTP took over everything,
so a good news/bad news.
2. Internet worms massively reduced by changed default configurations
and defaul
The price of electricity is a major component of the decision where data
centers operators choose to build large data centers.
Total electric price to end consumer (residential). Although industrial
electric prices are usually lower, its easier to compare residential
prices across countri
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, Andy Ringsmuth wrote:
Not sure where you’re finding those numbers but I believe they are not accurate.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (part of the Department of Energy)
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a
As I mentioned I used residential pricing because its easier to find.
Getting industrial pricing is more difficult because its often viewed as
proprietary secret information with particular customers. Its more
difficult to get industrial pricing across all countries (and states in
the USA).
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, Sabri Berisha wrote:
This (admittedly anecdotal) evidence clearly proves that the Dept of
Energy's table is cherry-picked bollocks. My rate is 163% of their
"average".
As always, you are free to collect data and produce your own table
covering electric prices for the e
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, Carsten Bormann wrote:
That’s not how it works.
https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/EN/Artikel/Energy/electricity-grids-of-the-future-01.html
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
English translation
[...]
The Federal Government has put the policies in place for ex
The Federal Communications Commission has posted a summary report on
outage reports due to the winter storm impacting Texas and central US.
It looks incomplete to me compared to the detail collected during a
typical hurricane. It is based on reports from telecommunication
companies. If co
The Federal Communications Commission has been reporting a summary of outage
reports (but not the details) from the Texas severe winter weather emergency.
No AM/FM/TV broadcasters have reported any outages in Texas or Oklahoma
during the last week. More than likely there were outages, but stati
In response to the recently passed READI Act, the Federal Communications
Commission agenda for its March meeting includes the following notice of
inquiry:
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-announces-tentative-agenda-march-open-meeting-8
The NDAA21 directs the Commission, within 180 days, to
FCC is proposing a change to who can have access to FCC outage reports.
But first a little history
After the 1990 AT&T Long Distance switching network collapse, there were
lots of investigations. The January 15th outage was the biggest, there
were a few more smaller crashes in 1990 and 19
Street addresses aren't universal in all countries.
On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, Rod Beck wrote:
That little blue dot is the target. 🙂
https://www.infrapedia.com/app/cls/vung-tau-viettel
Emergency responders run into buildings everyone else is running out of.
Keep their safety in mind when designing your mega-data centers.
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fire-destroys-ovhclouds-sbg2-data-center-strasbourg/
The emergency services of Bas-Rhin sent 115 firefighters
If you pump 100s of megawatts of energy into a confined space (i.e. a
large data center), and there is an uncontrolled release of that energy
(i.e. a fire), that's a lot of energy which is going to go somewhere.
Stored energy, batteries, backup fuel for generators, server plastic, etc.
There is
In the 1990s, I spent long time researching and talking to people about
the history of the old Automated Data Processing room code requirements.
You can tell by the terminology "Automated Data Processing" the age of the
original requirements. IBM helped write the original requirements in the
19
At 10:30 a.m. on March 9, 2021, the National Weather Service (NWS)
Headquarters building located in Silver Spring, Maryland, known as Silver
Spring Metro Complex 2 (SSMC-2), experienced a ruptured water pipe, which
caused significant and widespread flooding on the 7th floor and below. NWS
mainta
Its amazing the telecommunications industry still uses or relies on
"Letter of Authorization". Its less secure than faxing a piece of paper
on "letterhead."
I've said this before, check the archives.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3g8wb/hacker-got-my-texts-16-dollars-sakari-netnumber
The same FCC which keeps outage reports secret from the public (and
congress?), is seeking information about wireless service provider's
safety measures during disasters.
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-21-362A1.pdf
How have mobile wireless service providers addressed and improved
ERCOT ISO Texas has announced the end of today's emergency energy
conservation appeal due to a shortage of generation capacity and higher
than forecasted demand caused by a cold front.
No this is not an old message. Yep, Texas is having power shortages again
in mild April weather.
Ok, I know -- old news. But I missed it during the whole pandamic thing
last year.
Since I previously criticized Amazon about this, and FCC is
requesting comments about Internet Emergency Alerts this month, a
correction.
I found out Amazon Alexa added Severe Weather Alerts last Febuary 2020
On Sat, 17 Apr 2021, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
Anecdotal: With the prior consent of the DID holders, I have successfully
ported peoples' numbers using nothing more than a JPG scan of a signature
that looks like an illegible 150 dpi black and white blob, pasted in an
image editor on top of a generic look
On Mon, 19 Apr 2021, Peter Beckman wrote:
And while it would be nice if everyone "independently verified every LOA"
the cost of doing so in the far-too-many edge cases is business-endingly
high.
If carriers faced legal liability, with appropriate incentatives, I'd bet
they would solve the ve
The FCC has a poor record of actually collecting money from Notices of
Apparent Liability (i.e. fines). There are flaws in the FCC notification
rules, but it does have some rules requiring indpendent verification of
carrier changes.
FCC Fines Tele Circuit $4,145,000 for Cramming & Slammi
On Fri, 23 Apr 2021, Dan Hollis wrote:
On Fri, 23 Apr 2021, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
Did the FCC ever collect its $50 million from "Sandwich Isles
Telecommunications" for blatant fraud? At this scale I wonder how or why
certain people are not in federal prison.
FCC is not law enforcement. The FT
FCC “fined” robocallers $208 million since 2015 but collected only $6,790
Both FCC and FTC fail to collect vast majority of robocall fines, WSJ
reports.
March 28, 2019
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fcc-has-fined-robocallers-208-million-its-collected-6-790-11553770803
If your carrier does
Search FCC Electronic Comment Filing System for proceedings 15-91 and
15-94
https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/
https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?q=((proceedings.name:((15%5C-91)%20OR%20(15%5C-94))%20OR%20proceedings.description:((15%5C-91)%20OR%20(15%5C-94&sort=date_disseminated,DESC
Feasi
City Emergency Management Department
Motion Picture Association, Inc.
iHeartCommunications, Inc., Cumulus Media New Holdings Inc.
Advanced Televistion Systems Committee, Inc.
AT&T Services, Inc.
AWARN Alliance
National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
On Fri, 14 May 2021, Sean Donelan wrote:
The Federal Communications Commission voted today to accelerate the
STIR/SHAKEN deadlines for certain small IP voice service provider networks
to no later than June 30, 2022. Large IP VSP networks had a deadline of
June 30, 2021.
Shockingly (I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is goi
Sorry, voted to study *IF* it should accelerate the deadlines.
On Thu, 20 May 2021, Sean Donelan wrote:
The Federal Communications Commission voted today to accelerate the
STIR/SHAKEN deadlines for certain small IP voice service provider networks to
no later than June 30, 2022. Large IP VSP
On Thu, 20 May 2021, goe...@anime.net wrote:
Shockingly (I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here)
the commission found a subset of small voice service providers appear to be
originating a large and increasing quantity of illegal robocalls.
so they are illegal, then preci
What should be the new minimum speed for "broadband" in the U.S.?
This is the list of past minimum broadband speed definitions by year
year speed
1999 200 kbps in both directions (this was chosen as faster than
dialup/ISDN speeds)
2000 200 kbps in at least one direction (changed becaus
On Thu, 27 May 2021, Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE wrote:
At least 100/100.
We don’t like selling slower than 10g anymore, that’s what I’d start everyone
at if I could.
At $50/month or less?
Maximize number of households of all demographic groups.
On Fri, 28 May 2021, Mike Lyon wrote:
since it appears we are arbitrarily pulling random numbers out of our asses
for "minimums?"
I would love to see an experiment where the CEOs of the major
communication companies were forced to use only their "lifeline" products
for 30 days, including only
I thought in the 1990s, we had moved beyond using average bps measurements
for IP congestion collapse. During the peering battles, some ISPs used to
claim average bps measurements showed no problems. But in reality there
were massive packet drops, re-transmits and congestive collapse which
June 1, 2021 - Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric Contract Solicited
Request for Proposal issued for Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric with
responses due July 1, 2021
https://www.fcc.gov/BroadbandData
Today, June 17, 2021, the Federal Communications Commission voted to
request comments on proposed rules that would protect against national
security threats to the communications supply chain through the equipment
authorization and competitive bidding programs.
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc
FCC will vote July 13 to put "finishing touches" on the proposed
$1.9-billion program to subsidize removal of Huawei and ZTE gear from U.S.
wireless networks.
https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/notes/2021/06/21/july-open-meeting-agenda
On Thu, 17 Jun 2021, Sean Donelan wrote:
Toda
STIR/SHAKEN Broadly Implemented Starting Today
https://www.fcc.gov/document/stirshaken-broadly-implemented-starting-today
WASHINGTON, June 30, 2021—FCC Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel today
announced that the largest voice service providers are now using
STIR/SHAKEN caller ID authenticat
New report published by the Government Accountability Office.
FCC Should Analyze Small Business Speed Needs
https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-21-494.pdf
"FCC’s minimum speed benchmark of 25/3 Mbps is likely not fast enough to
meet the needs of many small businesses, particularly with regard to
Tommorrow, Wednesday, August 11, 2021 at 2:20 p.m. EDT the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will be testing the national emergency
alert system and wireless emergency alert system.
Most of the news reporting has tried to simplify things.
The Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) test on
A reminder, by default consumer cell phones do NOT have WEA tests enabled.
Your phone would NOT display today's WEA test, unless you manually opt-in.
Alerts are enabled by default -- Tests are disabled by default.
On Tue, 10 Aug 2021, Sean Donelan wrote:
Tommorrow, Wednesday, August 11,
Currently a problem in the north-east USA, but applicable after every
storm.
People in the south have more experience with hurricanes, and are used to
this advice. But apparently, some folks up north aren't in practice.
Never connect an electric generator to home electrical wiring without
i
No PSAPs are reported as being affected.
0.5% of the cell sites out of service.
Cell sites affected
Connecticut MassachusttsNew YorkRhode Island
3,785 6,698 2,025 1,005
Cable and wireline systems affected (subscriber count)
Connecticut Massach
Netblocks is reporting connectivity in New Orleans LA is at 72% of normal
as Hurricane Ida makes landfall.
https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1432038858460442625
There are per-incident things, like the outages mailing list and
downdetector.com. And some academic outage discovery projects su
Due to catastrophic electric transmission line failures. All of Orleans
Parish is currently without power. Over 830,000 electric customers in 8
counties have lost power. Approximately 80% of customers in southern
Louisiana have lost power.
Internet connectivity is down to 11% of normal level
Statement from Entergy (regional electric power company):
As a result of Hurricane Ida’s catastrophic intensity, all eight
transmission lines that deliver power into the New Orleans area are
currently out of service. When this occurred, it caused a load imbalance
in the area and resulted in
Unlike other utilities, I have not seen any outage reports directly from
the major telecommunications companies serving Louisiana and New Orleans.
9-1-1 out of service in three parishes (Orleans, Jefferson, St. Tammany).
100% of power is out in 4 parishes, over 80% power out in 14 parishes.
M
On this week's Federal Emergency Management Agency podcast, the director
of the national emergency alerting system (IPAWS) mentions that FEMA has
been in dicussions with Amazon about pushing emergency alerts to Alexa
smart devices within the next year.
https://www.fema.gov/media-library/ass
I missed this in the announcement of the FCC's February meeting agenda
next week.
In the early 2000's (after 9/11), the FCC ruled that outage reports were
"presumptively confidential." Personnally, I think the real reason was a
specific carrier used the outage reporting in its sales/marketing
Date: Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 10:30am
Location: 2322 Rayburn House Office Building
Subcommittees: Communications & Technology (116th Congress)
https://energycommerce.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/hearing-on-strengthening-communications-networks-to-help-americans-in
Legislation
H.
https://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-pai-proposes-mandating-stirshaken-combat-robocalls
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai today proposed a major
step forward to further the FCC’s efforts to protect consumers against
spoofed robocalls: new rules requiring implementation of ca
Has encryption ever solved scams/fraud/spam?
Extended Validation SSL Certificates - Just pay a Certificate Authority
more money
DKIM signed email - Just pay a mail provider more money to blast email
SWIFT encrypted payments - Just find the weakest bank somewhere in the
world
On Sat, 7 Mar 2020, John Levine wrote:
This must be some DKIM other than the one the IETF standardized and
every large mail provider uses to manage mail streams. There's no
CA's, you publish your own verification key in your DNS, and it costs
nothing beyond the software upgrades to use.
Most D
The first data cap waiver I've seen due to coronavirus. I expect other
ISPs to quickly follow.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74qzb/atandt-suspends-broadband-usage-caps-during-coronavirus-crisis
AT&T is the first major ISP to confirm that it will be suspending all
broadband usage caps
On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, Tom Paseka wrote:
I am not worried. Residential ISPs are usually at peak in the late evening.
They have loads of capacity during the day.
Do they have capacity to the right places?
The evening traffic peak is usually streaming entertainment bits from CDNs
on the edge of t
Lots of press releases. Dozens of ISPs have agreed to FCC
Chairman Pai's "pledge" to keep connectivity for customers impacted by
disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-363033A1.pdf
The Keep Americans Connected Pledge reads as follows:
Giv
Trying to put together a one-pager to help I.T. people at organizations
with a surge of work from home users.
First, I get that ISPs customer care centers and network operation centers
are trying their best. And may be having their own staffing issues.
Snow days and hurricanes aren't nati
On some other mailing lists, FCC licensed operators are reporting they
have received letters from the Department of Homeland Security authorizing
"access" and "fuel" priority.
Occasionally, DHS issues these letters after natural disasters such as
hurricanes for hospitals and critical facili
nd/or power outages?
-James
On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 4:21 PM Sean Donelan wrote:
On some other mailing lists, FCC licensed operators are
reporting they
have received letters from the Department of Homeland Security
authorizing
"access" and
On Mon, 16 Mar 2020, Sean Donelan wrote:
On some other mailing lists, FCC licensed operators are reporting they have
received letters from the Department of Homeland Security authorizing
"access" and "fuel" priority.
Occasionally, DHS issues these letters after
The U.S. Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency (part of the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security) has issued new Guidance on the Essential
Critical Infrastructure Workforce.
The memorandum is advisory, not presecriptive. DHS is only one of several
agencies assigned some National Essenti
The CISA critical infrastructure letters are a courtesy request letter.
If people abuse its purpose, local officials do not need to extend any
courtesy and can deny access.
The CISA letter is only for "providing emergency communications
sustainment and restoration support to critical commun
Proper planning prevents piss poor performance.
“You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish
to have at a later time.”
When someone does the after-action report, that will need to be a topic
then. Right now, we've need to work with what we've got.
On Wed,
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-ensures-americans-can-access-zoom-and-webex-during-covid-19-crisis-0
The Federal Communications Commission today issued a temporary waiver of
its access arbitrage rules to Inteliquent, a telecommunications company
that carries traffic for two of the nation’s la
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (DHS) has released
version 2.0 of its advisory memorandum on identification of essential
critical infrastructure workers during COVID-19 response.
A lot of wordsmithing, and extensive lobbying by certain industries. Its
easy to pick o
I missed this announcement last week.
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-grants-wisps-temporary-59-ghz-spectrum-access-rural-broadband
The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau today granted temporary
spectrum access to 33 wireless Internet service providers serving 330
counties in 29 state
How is ISPs hurricane response planning going?
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/490821-scientists-predict-more-major-hurricanes-than-normal-in-2020-season
Meteorologists are forecasting a significant hurricane and tropical storm
season for the Atlantic coast in 2020, according to researcher
Chmn Pai Hears Update from Broadband and Telephone Service Providers
https://www.fcc.gov/document/chmn-pai-hears-update-broadband-and-telephone-service-providers
[...]
The Chairman heard from providers across the country who
reported network usage had risen about 20-35% for fixed networks and
A sternly worded, finger-wagging press release.
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-ftc-demand-gateway-providers-cut-covid-19-robocall-scammers
[...]
The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau and FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection wrote
to three gateway providers that are facilitating these scam
COVID-19-
Enforcement Bureau requests interested consortia to file Letters of Intent
to conduct private traceback efforts pursuant to section 13(d) of the
TRACED Act
https://www.fcc.gov/document/eb-requests-letters-intent-traceback-consortium
The Pallone-Thune Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enfo
Utility markers don't get the recognition they deserve. If they aren't
essential workers, they should be and get hazard pay.
They help protect everyone's fiber and cables and pipes that go boom.
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/fiber-line-damage-colorado-811-outage-call-before-dig/73-b4b4753d-d524-400d-8cd8-5ee605c02236
Construction crew hits underground fiber line, causes outage of 'call
before you dig' hotline
Through the 811 hotline you can call to have utility lines marked
In 2008, NORAD changed its Cheyenne Mount Complex to a backup command
center. NORAD's day-to-day early warning mission was moved to Peterson
Air Force Base. The Cheyeene Mount Complex was kept ready as a 'warm
backup' and skeleton maintenance and training crews.
In late February 2020, NOR
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