FCC published its 2019 nationwide EAS test report. The issues haven't
changed, and some improved.
"With respect to the single largest complication reported from the 2019
nationwide EAS test results – namely, issues with monitoring source
failures – FEMA notes that it is actively taking mea
I have not heard of any problems with access for ISP and communications
workers in any U.S. state or locality during the pandemic.
Did I miss a big problem requiring the FCC chairman and CISA Director send
a letter?
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-cisa-stress-need-communications-industr
FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau Seeks Comment on Effects of
June 15, 2020 T-Mobile Outage on Public Safety Entities, Government
Entities, and Consumers
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-seeks-comment-effects-june-15-t-mobile-outage
From T-Mobile's statement:
https://www.t-m
At this month's FCC rulemaking meeting, it will consider
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-announces-tentative-agenda-september-open-meeting-6
Promoting Caller ID Authentication to Combat Spoofed Robocalls – The
Commission will consider a Report and Order that would continue its work
to imple
As some of the largest wildfires burn along the West Coast, and over
500,000 people evacuate, a reminder that streaming devices do not
include local emergency alerts. Cord-cutters using Alphabet Android TV,
Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV "smart" devices should remember they don't have
emergency al
On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, William Herrin wrote:
tl;dr: keep your cell phone on and with you 'cause only a few things
get emergency alerts and only when they're turned on.
You sound like the CTIA in the 2000s when it was opposed to requiring
emergency alerts on cell phones. "Its unnecessary to requ
On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, Matt Erculiani wrote:
Linking relevant past thread about devices that don't alert for
emergencies and, of course, a heated debate on if they should:
https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-March/199721.html
Yep. I'm not naive. I keep saying something, because one
The VP Engineering for Android posted a visualization of the 4.5 earthquake in
Southern California from data collected by Android phones.
https://twitter.com/davey_burke/status/1307395583338885120
USGS ShakeAlert is transmitted via WEA to Android, iPhone and other cellular
devices; and shared d
and I received this alert about 3 seconds before
the shockwave hit my location:
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 1:40 PM Sean Donelan wrote:
The VP Engineering for Android posted a visualization of the 4.5
earthquake in
Southern California from data collected by Android phones.
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-new-rules-combat-spoofed-robocalls
The Federal Communications Commission today adopted new rules to further
promote implementation of the STIR/SHAKEN caller ID authentication
framework to protect consumers against malicious caller ID spoofing. The
new
State and local government services are always underfunded. Election
depend on heroic election administrators and a lot of duct tape.
Its not yet election day, but don't be surprised by all sorts of normal
problems and outages on November 3 and after when systems will be under
maximum stress.
SERVICE RESTORED
The outages began late Saturday and the voting services were restored at
about 7 a.m. Monday.
Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said the problem has been with a
contractor’s equipment and there was no evidence of “malicious
interference.”
The outage also affected online
Every election has problems. Most of the time, those problems aren't
noticed. Elections rely on a lot of back-end infrastructure, besides the
actual voting itself.
It could be a DDOS attack, or simply duct-taped systems having trouble
with the load.
Voting early (mail, drop-off, in-person
Florida has had notoriously unreliable state I.T. infrastructure for
years. Florida's unemployment websites were broken for months during the
Spring 2020 COVID unemployment demand surge. So its very likely crappy
state I.T. infrastructure problems being stressed by high volume.
Florida vo
On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, Mike Hammett wrote:
How many of these overloaded web sites that we hear about (voter
registration, unemployment registration, web sites announced in a big way,
causing surges in traffic, etc.) have a CDN offloading the low-hanging
fruit?
Florida uses a CDN, like essentially
This is not the first, and won't be the last, problem that happens during
this election season. Unless there is substantial and credible evidence
otherwise, the normal reason for an technology outage will likely be the
normal stupid reasons for technology outages.
===
On the last day of Virginia voter registration, the state-wide voter
registration system experienced a cable cut disrupting access to the
state-wide database system.
Absent clear and convincing evidence otherwise, the problems will likely
be caused by the usual stupid stuff.
VITA
@VITAag
Major wireless carriers have activated their open roaming agreements,
allowing customers of competitors to connect to any working cell tower.
As usual in disasters, text messaging may work even when voice and
data connections don't.
AT&T released the following statement:
"Hurricane Ida has
One person has died and at least 27 people are being treated for carbon
monoxide poisoning from portable generators.
Officials are reminding people to operate portable generators only
outside, 20 feet away from homes, doors and windows. Not in carports,
garages, basements.
To restore power,
Another reminder
Walkie-talkie apps on smartphones, like Zello, still require working
Internet access. They don't work without cell or wifi service and
internet access. Zello keeps reminding people, it REQUIRES internet
access; but people don't get it.
https://www.reuters.com/article
As Hurricane Ida moved across the eastern part of the country, the FCC did
not expand its DIRS reporting. So today's outage reports only includes
Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi.
It does not include New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, etc.
Hurricane Ida death toll: 29 people to date, ex
Two 19-year-old linemen died in an electrocution accident in Jefferson
County, Alabama assisting with storm recovery. Cause under investigation.
at least 66 deaths confirmed:
25 in New Jersey (at least 8 died in vehicle flooding),
17 in New York (at least 11 died in basement apartment flooding)
On Sun, 5 Sep 2021, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
During the peak of the rain storm in NJ+NY (see flooding deaths referenced
in previous email), the wireless emergency alert systems were sending,
simultaneously:
1) TORNADO WARNING SEEK SHELTER NOW GO TO BASEMENT [1]
2) FLOOD WARNING SEEK HIGH GROUND GET O
According to news reports, Cox communications has restored 85 percent of
service in the Greater Baton Rouge area, but 60 percent of Greater New
Orleans customers are still without internet. They assessed nearly 65
miles of damages to their network infrastructure in the New Orleans area.
Cox st
This month's FCC meeting includes a notice of proposed rulemaking on
wireless network resilience cooperative framework, outage reporting, and
backup power arrangements.
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-375607A1.pdf
What the NPRM Would Do:
• Seek comment on potential impro
NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT RAIL CONTROL CENTER POWER
OUTAGE ISSUE ON AUGUST 29, 2021
Key Findings
September 8, 2021
https://www.governor.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021-09/WSP_Key_Findings_Summary-for_release.pdf
Key Findings
[...]
3. Based on the electrical equipment log readings and the manufactu
Sigh, people often mis-hear this when I say it, so I will try to say it
carefully.
If you have an Emergency Power Off (EPO), the electrical code (and
life-safety code) allows use of several alternative wiring methods. Some
people mistakenly believe the allowed alternatives are the rule, but t
Wednesday, September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico with
sustained winds of 155 mph. An estimated 2,975 people died in PR, 3 in
USVI, and 81 the other parts of the carribean. It caused over $90 billion
in property damage.
The Puerto Rico power grid was effectively destroyed by
According to the FCC, 4,798 companies had filed in the Robocall Mitigation
Database with many hundreds of carriers, including all of the largest
phone carriers, certifying to implementation of STIR/SHAKEN standards on
their IP networks.
Beginning today, if a voice service provider’s certifi
South Korean Internet service provider SK Broadband has sued Netflix to
pay for costs from increased network traffic and maintenance work because
of a surge of viewers to the U.S. firm's content, an SK spokesperson said
on Friday.
[...]
Last year, Netflix had brought its own lawsuit on whether
In the old days, postal services used to charge the recipient of a letter
to deliver the letter. Then stamps were invented, and postal services
charged the sender of the letter, and the recipent got free delivery.
Now there is free-shipping, and pre-paid return envelopes for DVDs.
Of cours
On Wed, 6 Oct 2021, Karl Auer wrote:
I'd add one "soft" list item:
- in your emergency plan, have one or two people nominated who are VERY
high up in the organisation. Their lines need to be open to the
decisionmakers in the emergency team(s). Their job is to put the fear
of a vengeful god into
Has anyone published "safe" geo-location defaults? By safe I mean default
lat/lon coordinates for a country, state/province, city, postal code which
do not resolve near a residence.
It seems like too many people use "Find My " or other geo-location
services, and then go to the exact location s
The multi-million dollar fines announced with great fanfaire by the
Federal Communication Commission are almost never collected. The FCC
doesn't have enforcement authority to collect fines. The FCC usually
withholds license renewals until penalties are paid. If the violator
doesn't have any
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2021/11/133_318025.html
KT to pay W40 bil. in compensation for network outage
KT will pay out up to 40 billion won ($33.97 million) in compensation to
customers of its wired and wireless services, which underwent nationwide
disruptions Oct. 25, the compan
On Wed, 17 Nov 2021, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
That's over a week old and I don't see 3000 comments on it, so maybe it's just
me. So many things are just me.
Someone is wrong on the Internet.
https://xkcd.com/386/
Other problems which will occur sooner:
1. Unix 32-bit time_t overflow.
2. North
"Those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It."
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has published its final
report on the Texas 2021 power outages. According to FERC during the last
10 years, there have been four extreme cold weather events which have
threatened the Texas p
I missed the October publication of FERC's annual staff report on lessons
learned.
https://ferc.gov/media/2021-report-commission-led-cip-audits
Some are the usual boilerplate FERC staff "found that while most of the
cybersecurity protection processes and procedures adopted by the
registered e
Berkeley quad on
03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.
On Wed, 17 Nov 2021, Sean Donelan wrote:
Other problems which will occur sooner:
1. Unix 32-bit time_t overflow.
2. North American Numbering Plan runs out of +1 zone phone numbers
3. IPv6 deployed and working everywhere/everything on the
On Sun, 19 Dec 2021, J Doe wrote:
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 5.657/5.657/5.657/0.000 ms
lukas@dev:~$ ping 1.1.1.1 -c1 -s1000
PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 1000(1028) bytes of data.
1008 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1
On Mon, 20 Dec 2021, Steven Champeon wrote:
on Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 04:50:00PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
Assuming (not confirmed) mitigating old-style DOS attacks. See
"ping of death."
Are there even enough dialup connections and ancient modems left that POD
is a thing anyone need
On Tue, 21 Dec 2021, Mark Tinka wrote:
On 12/21/21 09:11, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
As Google has stated in many forums and I quote:
"Google Public DNS is a Domain Name System service, not an ICMP network
testing service."
:-)... can't argue with that.
In the 90's and early 2000's, it was:
https://wpln.org/post/the-christmas-day-bombing-cut-off-emergency-communications-across-tennessee-heres-whats-changed-since/
It’s been nearly a year since an RV exploded outside an AT&T data center
in downtown Nashville. Damage from the blast resulted in major disruptions
to phone and interne
The worst time for an emergency managent agency website problems is during
a state of emergency. Colorado wildfires.
https://twitter.com/COEmergency/status/1477001728138485761
CO - Emergency Mgmt
@COEmergency
Our division websites are currently down. We will use our social media
accounts and
On Wed, 12 Jan 2022, Adam Thompson wrote:
Restatement: yes, there are much better ways to diagnose problems, but my
customer can only run ping & traceroute (and pathping, I suppose) and is
capable enough to run those tools and self-assess before calling me.
Back in the old days, when there was
Need to look at the entire infrastructure. Now, its less about backup for
the hardwired router, and better utility backups and construction for
mobile provider infrastructure.
Almost all households have at least one mobile phone, with built-in
battery backup :-) We used to have public pay te
Of course, any ethernet switch is "IPv6 ready." They are just ethernet
packets, and the switch doesn't care what's in the packets.
Which SOHO class switches are really IPv6 capable? Or is it still
necessary to go with the enterprise class switches?
IOT devices all want to chat with each
On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, Andy Ringsmuth wrote:
Hmmm…
Multiple sub-sea cable problems referencing Europe and the US east coast…
Putin testing the waters for connectivity disruptions ahead of a Ukraine
invasion? Where the US and NATO are the thorn in his side?
Naw, that's Svalbard, Norway cable da
On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, Brandon Martin wrote:
The Netgear GS108T is my typical go-to "not a dumb switch". 8 ports for
about $80.
Make sure you get the v3 if you want most of the modern IPv6 L2 features (you
also get some very limited L3 capabilities). The v2 lacks most of them and
is still rea
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-finds-two-providers-failed-fully-implement-stirshaken-0
The Federal Communications Commission today took action to ensure that
voice service providers meet their commitments and obligations to
implement STIR/SHAKEN standards to combat spoofed robocall scams.
https://www.icrc.org/en
Convention (V) respecting the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and
Persons in Case of War on Land. The Hague, 18 October 1907.
CHAPTER I : THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF NEUTRAL POWERS - ART. 8.
Art. 8. A neutral Power is not called upon to forbid or restrict the use
o
On Fri, 4 Mar 2022, Martin Hannigan wrote:
I would argue they don't have much of a choice:
"The economic sanctions put in place as a result of the invasion and the
increasingly uncertain security situation make it impossible for Cogent to
continue to provide you with service."
I would expect to
Since 2008, the Washington-Moscow Direct Communications Link (also
known as "The Washington-Moscow Hotline") uses redundant circuits of two
satellite links and a fiber-optic cable. They use commercial facilities
for at least part of the circuits.
Past accidents have interrupted previous hot
At least 40 years of telco's being unwilling to share information about
their service interuptions? They are barely willing to acknowledge
outages to their own customers.
On Thu, 3 Mar 2022, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
As the discussion rages on NANOG, RIPE, CENTR and many other uber-technical
On Sun, 6 Mar 2022, Laura Smith via NANOG wrote:
You do realise there's a shedload of fibre running around Europe ?
There are so many redundant paths that you'd have to chop through quite
a lot of it before anyone noticed much difference.
Historically, the largest telecommunication outages hav
Weather Service tornado warnings were delayed during deadly Iowa outbreak
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/03/06/nws-tornado-warning-dissemination-iowa/
[...]
Susan Buchanan, the Weather Service’s director of public affairs, wrote
that “a technical issue caused a delay of between
On Mon, 7 Mar 2022, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
says otherwise.
Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation denied plans to
disconnect Russia from the Internet
https://www.interfax.ru/russia/826788
[...google translate...]
Moscow. March 7th. INTERFAX.RU - The Ministry of Digital
On Tue, 8 Mar 2022, Michael Thomas wrote:
Hi, I was reading an article on why Russia hasn't taken out Ukraine's mobile
networks and one of the premises was that they could use it to eavesdrop on
calls.
During World War I, the British Empire did this. It strategically cut
telegraph cables wit
On Thu, 10 Mar 2022, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
I think we'll see a lot more of this from authoritarian regimes in the
future. For anyone unfamiliar with their existing distributed DPI
architecture, google "Russia SORM".
Many nation's have a government CA.
The United States Government has its Federal
Likewise, my statements and opinions also do not represent any past,
current or future employer.
While I understand the engineering and business reasons (fewer customer
complaints and lawsuits), the underlying risk is due to the combined
'universial trust root CA' store in most TLS/SSL soft
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/03/15/internet-technicians-are-the-hidden-heroes-of-the-russia-ukraine-war/?ss=cybersecurity&sh=75eb5cdd2884
Images sent to Forbes by Kyivstar show what the conditions are like.
Despite obliterated terrain and internet wires, fire-blackened data
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fccs-foreign-sponsorship-identification-rules-go-effect
The Federal Communications Commission today announced a March 15, 2022
compliance date of sponsorship identification requirements that
will now require broadcasters to disclose when foreign governments or
their
On Sun, 13 Mar 2022, Carsten Bormann wrote:
Oh.
Your message started insightful.
Now you are back to binary authorization, just with a jurisdiction parameter
going in.
Public CAs are third-party introducers. Its like a friend of a friend of
a friend sets you up on a blind date. Your friend'
The Ukraine electric grid has been synched with the Russian electric grid
since the fall of U.S.S.R.
In 2017, Ukrain and ENTSO-E (Continental Europe electric grid authority)
began planning to interconnect the Ukraine grid with the Europe Grid (and
disconnect from the Russian grid).
The or
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/03/06/nws-tornado-warning-dissemination-iowa/
In a follow-up statement Monday, Buchanan said the communications delay
resulted from a damaged fiber optic cable at the Weather Service’s
Dallas-Fort Worth office.
“The cable outage caused that office
French media covered this earlier in March, but I didn't see the english
language reporting until now.
https://www.journaldunet.com/web-tech/cloud/1509749-enquete-sur-l-incendie-d-ovh-des-conclusions-accablantes/
OVH has not released its own report about the fire at its SBG2 datacenter
on March
Not yet official, but the U.S. intelligence community seems to continue
its rapid release of intelligence. I think everyone was expecting it,
especially since Viasat executives declined to say it earlier this week at
the SATCOM 2022 conference.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-secu
On Fri, 25 Mar 2022, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
I'd be willing to bet that this was either a malicious firmware push that
was applied to the CPEs without proper authentication methods being in
place, such as CPEs being able to verify a crypto key signed firmware
signature, or a configuration file pushed
Program Change 1 – Caribbean Area Office and Warehouse Support:
Description
The FY 2023 Budget includes an increase of $1.4M for the staffing and
operational costs of the Puerto Rico Distribution Centers (DC). Staff will
manage readiness, disaster response operations and the distribution of
com
The Last Days Of Mariupol’s Internet
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/03/31/the-last-days-of-mariupols-internet/
"Engineers who kept Ukraine’s port city online have gone missing or died
in the carnage inflicted by Russia’s siege. Hope remains that Ukrainian
cities knocked off
Whether its preparing for a natural disaster like a hurricane or a russian
invasion, proper advance planning makes a difference. The cellular network
operators and national regulator in Ukraine have been preparing for years.
"It must be kept in mind, that many of these changes could not have
The island-wide electrical grid has failed on Puerto Rico.
From the utility company:
Fault in the output breaker of Unit #5 of Costa Sur at 230kv caused the
output of units 5 and 6 of the Central. The electrical system protection
system took the rest of the units that were generating out o
According to poweroutage.us, based on data from LUMA Energy, partial power
restoration in Puerto Rico. 423,000 customers still without power (down
from 1.45 million).
Most recent IODA data (ioda.live) shows 82% network accessibility (based
on active probing).
https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatec
FCC Activates Disaster Information Reporting for Puerto Rico
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-activates-disaster-information-reporting-puerto-rico
Reports are requested at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, April 8 and every day after
that by 10:00 a.m. until DIRS is deactivated.
From first FCC DIRS report
https://www.fcc.gov/document/puerto-rico-power-outage-communications-status-report-april-8-2022
Cable and wireline companies reported 267,111 subscribers out of service
in the disaster area in Puerto Rico; this may include the loss of
telephone, television, and/or
LUMA Energy reports partial grid restoration in Puerto Rico. Officially,
it reports 30,000 customers still without power, but LUMA reports have
been less than half of actual customers impacted throughout this event.
IODA and radar.cloudflare show improved Puerto Rico network accessibility
After restoring over 90% of power across Puerto Rico, the Auguirre power
plant failed. According to LUMA Energy approximately 300,000 customers
impacted (LUMA's numbers have been about half of the estimated total
customers impacted).
IODA and Cloudflare data showing another drop in address
Err a typo. I meant 300,000 customers.
On Sat, 9 Apr 2022, Sean Donelan wrote:
LUMA Energy reports partial grid restoration in Puerto Rico. Officially, it
reports 30,000 customers still without power, but LUMA reports have been less
than half of actual customers impacted throughout this
Puerto Rico electric grid has been restored.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/04/13/hsi-agents-honolulu-disrupted-cyberattack-undersea-cable-critical-telecommunications/
Homeland Security Investigations says it was able to disrupt a cyberattack
of a critical undersea cable, adding the hackers sought to target
“infrastructure on Oahu.”
Multiple physical cable cuts in multiple diverse locations in France.
Several networks that connect the internet infrastructures of major French
cities were cut overnight, in a short interval. A state source evokes with
"the Obs" a "coordinated malicious act", which confirms SFR and Free
aff
I've noticed a few (small number) of robocalls have started spoofing
international phone numbers instead of local phone numbers. I don't know
if this is because telephone gateways are doing a better job at blocking
neighbor caller ID spoofing -- or something else.
https://www.fcc.gov/docume
AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, Others Commit to Low-Income Broadband Program
Providers will help offer high-speed internet to millions of households
under the infrastructure law
https://www.wsj.com/articles/internet-providers-commit-to-low-income-broadband-program-under-infrastructure-law-1165208680
This afternoon, six power generation facilities tripped offline resulting
in the loss of approximately 2,900 MW of electricity. At this time, all
generation resources available are operating. We’re asking Texans to
conserve power when they can by setting their thermostats to 78-degrees or
ab
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-higher-speed-goals-small-rural-broadband-providers-0
The Federal Communications Commission voted [May 19, 2022] to seek
comment on a proposal to provide additional universal service support to
certain rural carriers in exchange for increasing deployme
Money, money, money.
On Mon, 23 May 2022, Aaron Wendel wrote:
The Fiber Broadband Association estimates that the average US household will
need more than a gig within 5 years. Why not just jump it to a gig or more?
On 5/23/2022 1:40 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
https://www.fcc.gov/document
Remember, this rulemaking is for 1.1 million locations with the "worst"
return on investment. The end of the tail of the long tail. Rural and
tribal locations which aren't profitable to provide higher speed
broadband.
These locations have very low customer density, and difficult to serve.
On Fri, 27 May 2022, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote:
USF is great for rural, but it has turned medium density and suburban
areas into connectivity wastelands.
Carrier & cable lobbying organizations say that free market competition by
multiple providers provide adequate service in those areas.
T
I would say, if you’re looking to build or expand your networks, focus
on how you can get the fiber out there, there’s a lot of money available
if you’re willing to take it. It might mean taking the USF money and
the obligations that go with that in reporting, compliance, etc.. but
those costs
I wish (...) that public right of way agreements included a requirement
that service providers must publish accurate service area maps, and must
provide service (or pay a substantial penalty for each inaccurate service
claim).
In the old days (...) the "certificate of publice convenience and
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-launches-tutorials-help-center-broadband-data-collection
In preparation for the inaugural Broadband Data Collection (BDC) filing
window opening on June 30, 2022, the FCC today announced the launch of an
online help center and other new resources to assist inter
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Broadband:
National Strategy Needed to Guide Federal Efforts to Reduce Digital Divide
GAO-22-104611
Published: May 31, 2022. Publicly Released: May 31, 2022.
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-104611
In its efforts to expand broadband access, the federal g
USF money is about the bottom 1% not the top 1%.
I wouldn't be surprised if every Zuckerberg mansion worldwide has a
multi-gig connection to support his Metaverse.
The top 50% will continue to drive innovation (and bandwidth demand).
Broadband service providers claim no ROI to build-out (re
On Mon, 6 Jun 2022, Casey Russell via NANOG wrote:
To be honest, I don't know, I'm not a money person, I just turn knobs. But
apparently it costs more than $130 billion dollars. In the US alone.
If I had a magic wand, I would have a separate cap on each USF program
including the High Co
On Mon, 6 Jun 2022, Kord Martin wrote:
After years and years of being told why it's not feasible to build out
infrastructure upgrades to provide internet service, once I started to work
in the industry it was pretty shocking to see how customers are actually
treated. It's tough to gather cont
June 7, 2022 is the 10th anniversary of Wireless Emergency Alerts in the
United States.
About 30 countries now use the mobile alert protocol (with country
specific names). WEA is that thing which makes your phone buzz loudly
and vibrate when there is an emergency message in your area.
Wildf
The Wireline Competition Bureau reminds non-facilities-based small voice
service providers that they must implement the STIR/SHAKEN caller ID
authentication framework in their Internet Protocol networks no later than
June 30, 2022.
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-reminds-small-providers-ju
As always, complicated things are complicated. After Crimea was annexed
by Russia, they learned the importance of controlling the
telecommunications infrastructure. No, Russia did not cut a submarine
cable, because there was no submarine cable connecting Crimea.
In the old days, pre-1960s
Status Update: Mapping Where Broadband Is—and Is Not—Available in the U.S.
June 30, 2022
https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/notes/2022/06/30/status-update-mapping-where-broadband-and-not-available-us
Inaugural Filing Window for Broadband Data Collection Has Opened
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc
Verizon FIOS has been rolling out IPv6 across Northern Virginia. Hurrah!
Stuff with ads (which is almost everything on the modern Internet) now
load much more slowly or timeout.
Changed IPv4/IPv6 connection preferences to use IPv4 first. Much improved
user experience.
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