FCC Chairwoman Roseworcel Probes Top Mobile Carriers On Data Privacy
Practices
The FCC website content management system is messed up this evening, but
as far as I can tell
AT&T
Best Buy
Charter
Comcast
Consumer Cellular
C-Spire
Google Fi
I assume the rest of the alphabet will show up
FCC has fixed its website document management system, and has all the
letters of inquiry posted.
In the letters of inquiry, Chairwoman Rosenworcel asks about their
policies around geolocation data, such as how long geolocation data is
retained and why and what the current safeguards are to pr
I was wondering when we would see the first stories about data center
and IXP issues in Europe due to the heat wave.
https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/google-oracle-cloud-uk-heat
According to Google Cloud's service health page, one of its London
buildings hosting cloud services for one of
Admitly, my hands-on experience with this type of data is 10-years out of
date. The industry has changed a lot.
Carrier/MVNO data is less relevant now and has more restrictions. Apps,
third-party ad brokers and platforms (Apple, Android) are much more
detailed sources of this data now.
I
The FCC proposes $4,353,773.87 in total fines against 73 applicants in the
Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I Auction (Auction 904) that
defaulted on their bids for support between July 26, 2021, and March 10,
2022.
[...]
The objective of Auction 904 was to facilitate the provision of b
On Fri, 22 Jul 2022, Michael Thomas wrote:
Basically the jist that it's fake auto warranty fraud calls. Or is this just
requiring providers to do the forensics whichever way to enforce this?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/21/tech/fcc-robocall-crackdown/index.html
As always speak with your corpo
Canada is part of North America, and may be of interest to NANOG.
Rogers had a nationwide outage on July 8, 2022. The House of Commons
held a hearing today (July 25, 2022) on the outage and invited the Rogers
CEO, other company CEOs, regulators and academics to testify.
Recording of the Hous
Having some experience with documents of extreme public interest, and web
sites getting overloaded (Starr Report on President Clinton, 1998)...
its nice to see government web sites still get overloaded several decades
later.
"PACER Service Under Fire After Trump Affidavit Crash Reports"
locally and I'm happy to make it available, just let me know.
On Aug 26, 2022, at 12:07 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
Having some experience with documents of extreme public interest, and web sites
getting overloaded (Starr Report on President Clinton, 1998)...
its nice to see government web sites
Hopefully, my pain will help someone else.
I've had sporadic Internet slowdowns and stuck networking since IPv6 was
enabled on my FIOS ONT a few months ago.
After too much troubleshooting, I found out some older Intel GbE ethernet
cards have a IPv6 Checksum Offload incompatibility with certai
On Sat, 27 Aug 2022, Michael Thomas wrote:
In some situations where a client machine is connected via some specific
Optical Network Terminals (ONTs), and data is appended after the packet
checksum, the network adapter can drop receive packets when using TCP-IPv6
Checksum Offload for receive tra
Are Sprint AS1239 and Cogent AS174 finally going to settle their peering
disputes?
T-Mobile sells legacy Sprint wireline business to Cogent for $1, expects
hefty charge
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/cogent-communications-acquire-t-mobiles-wireline-business-2022-09-07/
1,400 custome
Article by Internet Society's Resident Advisor Jim Cowie.
Rogers Outage: What do we Know After Two Months?
https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/rogers-outage-what-do-we-know-after-two-months
September 9, 2022
It’s now been a full two months since Rogers Telecom suffered a nationwide
Intern
The China Telecom office tower fire in Hunan is reportedly out, after
completely burning the entire 200m tower (42-floors).
China Telecom statement:
"By around 4:30 pm today, the fire at our No. 2 Communications Tower in
Changsha has been extinguished. No casualties have yet been discovered
Statement from China Telecom (translation by Google Translate)
"This afternoon, the façade of the Changsha Second Communication Building
caught fire, and the fire was extinguished. In order to prevent danger,
some equipment in the building has been powered off. At present,
fixed-line communi
Puerto Rico is experiencing an island-wide power blackout (100%).
Today's (based on yesterday's information) FCC Communication Status Report
only reports 6.9% of cell towers out of service. I expect tomorrow's
report (based on today's information) will be worse.
Latest FCC report (September 19, 2022 based on previous day reporting).
Overall, 24.3% (617) cell sites out of service. This is relatively good,
because Fiona was only a category 1 hurricane. Less wind, more rain meant
less damage to towers.
However, wireline and cable companies report 76
From FCC report for September 20, 2022 (based on data from the prior day).
Average of 30% (766) cell sites out of service. Worst >80% out of service
in CULEBRA and LAS MARIAS.
Cable and wireline companies reported 795,289 subscribers out of service.
From U.S. Dept of Energy report for Se
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/wsj-explains/how-chinas-military-drills-could-choke-off-taiwans-internet/854E2910-16D3-4265-93B0-19551CB1B3B1
How China’s Military Drills Could Choke Off Taiwan’s Internet
Taiwan has 14 submarine cables that connect the island to the rest of the
world
By Wall
September 23, 2022
Hurricane Fiona downgraded to category 3 storm. Headed towards Nova
Scotia Canada.
Approximately, 30,722 (85%) of customers without power after Hurrican
Fiona passes by Bermuda.
IODA shows Internet service in Bermuda about 50%.
https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/count
Lazaro Guerra, the technical director of the Electric Union of Cuba, the
country’s state power company, said Cuba had "zero electric generation"
after the hurricane caused problems in links in the west, center and east
of the island. Mr. Guerra said crews would be working all night and
Wedne
Ian (Florida, September 28, 2022)
102,000 customer power outages in Florida
188 (1.4%) cell sites out of service
worst is MONROE county 12 cell sites (12.1%)
26,716 cable and wireline subscribers out of service
Fiona (Puerto Rico, September 28, 2022)
335,000 customers without power in Pu
'Fines alone aren't enough:' FCC threatens to blacklist voice providers
for flouting robocall rules
https://www.cyberscoop.com/fcc-robocall-fine-database-removal/
[...]
“This is a new era. If a provider doesn’t meet its obligations under the
law, it now faces expulsion from America’s phone net
Caller ID Authentication on Non-IP Networks – The Commission will consider
a Notice of Inquiry launching a broad inquiry on caller ID authentication
technology for non-Internet Protocol networks. (WC Docket No. 17- 97)
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-announces-tentative-agenda-october-open-
The effective date will be determined later, after publication in the
Federal Register and OMB review under PRA.
November 17, 2022—The Federal Communications Commission today
unveiled new rules that will for the first time require broadband
providers to display easy-tounderstand labels to allo
A small plane crashed into high-voltage transmission power lines in
Montgomery County, Maryland; near Washington DC. Most of the data centers
are in Northern Virginia, but some are in Southern Maryland (Wheaton,
Olney, Gaithersburg and as far away as Silver Spring).
https://wtop.com/montg
The FCC is (slowly, slowly) increasing robocall enforcement. It issued a
cease and desist letter, and directed all voice service providers to take
steps to effectively mitigate suspected illegal robocall traffic made by
or on behalf of the following: (1) Urth Access, LLC (Urth Access); (2)
https://en.vietnamplus.vn/last-undersea-internet-cable-connecting-vietnam-with-the-world-breaks-down/248731.vnp
Since February 10 when telecommunication firms took technical solutions
and opened up more data flows on land-based cables, the Internet
connections have been improved and 50% of i
Verizon network maintenance will impact access to the “National Driver
Register,” a system that motor vehicle offices around the country need to
check before handing out a license.
All 50 states and D.C. participate in the National Driver Register, a
database maintained by the National Highway
IT professionals are often tasked with planning, provisioning,
implementing, and managing LMR networks with the assumption that all
computer networks are basically the same and have the same general
requirements. However, in some cases this assumption has resulted
in LMR networks being inade
Are broadband CPE (ONTs, CMs, NIDs, etc) manufacturers and PV battery
wall engineers working on any standardized CPE backup power connectors?
AC/DC/AC & wall wart DC again is inefficient and reduces runtime.
It would be nice if PV/DC battery wall and broadband CPE had a standard DC
connecto
On Sat, 15 Apr 2023, Joe Greco wrote:
Ubiquiti EdgeRouter PoE 5 can use 48VDC.
If both PV battery walls and broadband CPE supported Power-Over-Ethernet
as a backup power source, that would work too. POE supports greater
distances than USB-C.
If both PV battery walls and broadband CPE supported Power-Over-Ethernet as a
backup power source, that would work too. POE supports greater distances
than USB-C.
I'd prefer broadband CPE (UL listed) with a standardized backup power
connector (doesn't exist, but I can dream).
For DIYers, bu
Just published, buried in the after-action report on 2021 Hurricane
Ida
Commodity internet access is now part of life-safety.
National Weather Service
Service Assessment
August-September 2021 Hurricane Ida
April 2023
https://www.weather.gov/media/publications/assessments/Hurricane_Ida_Service
Hawaii has been unique since the beginning of EBS.
The State of Hawaii EOC acted as the local Primary Entry Point. All the
other PEP stations on the mainland are commercial broadcast stations,
based on early EBS working agreements between NAB, White House, FCC and
predecessor agencies of FEMA
While a lot of ISPs gave up on data caps, the language is still lurking in
many Terms Of Service.
https://www.fcc.gov/document/chair-rosenworcel-proposes-investigate-impact-data-caps
proposed Notice of Inquiry to learn more about how broadband providers use
data caps on consumer plans. Da
Backlash to data centers prompts political upset in northern Virginia
By MATTHEW BARAKAT
https://apnews.com/article/virginia-election-data-centers-prince-william-229cb44d34ccf4bd1cc4e9f0d0131649
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — The tech industry’s drive to dot the Virginia
landscape with data centers
Northern Virginia has about 275 data centers
The noise complaints are about HVAC fan noise (24-hour droning) from
cooling towers or roof top farms of evaporative condensers.
The water complaints are about the one-use water cooling towers
The electric grid complaints are about the demand on
On Fri, 23 Jun 2023, Delong.com wrote:
Northern Virginia has about 275 data centers
There’s probably close to that number in the South Bay Area of California as
well.
California is well-known for its state enviromental laws and zoning, so
some of the issues with the 'wild-west' zoning of ru
Copper wire thefts of all kinds appear to be increasing in 2023. Not just
telecommunications copper cables, but also electric and transit cables.
San Joaquin County reported a 139% increase in copper wire thefts over
four months, and one theft in the county left the 911 center unable to
re
For California only (I don't have sources for Hawaii).
no reported loss of life
58,555 telecom subscribers out of service
54,514 power subscribers out of service
85 cell sites out of service (7 damanged, 52 transport, 20 no power)
Less than 1% OOS in declared area
2 PSAPs (911) out of servic
y day
-Original Message-
From: NANOG On Behalf Of Sean Donelan
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2023 3:01 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: California hurricane and earthquake telecommunication impacts
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when opening attach
Only interesting for this list because of NANOG's history with MERIT and
UofM. Long since separated.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/29/politics/university-of-michigan-cyber-incident-offline/index.html
The University of Michigan has been without full internet access for two
days after staff shut
CRTC hires private company to investigate 2022 Rogers outage
Critics say regulator being too secretive about probe, too slow to force
more transparency from big telecoms
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/crtc-rogers-outage-investigation-1.6963052
CBC News has learned Canada's telecommunication
2019 Update to the NECP
https://www.dhs.gov/cisa/national-emergency-communications-plan
CISA is seeking feedback on proposed updates to the NECP — the Nation’s
strategic plan to improve emergency communications. Informed by last
year’s SAFECOM Nationwide Survey, the NECP provides guidance to th
In advance of Apple TV's big announcement next week, other folks are
announcing their new streaming TV boxes. Comcast announced Xfinity Flex
today, a video streaming box.
Xfinity Flex looks and acts like a set-top box, but uses Internet, so it
avoids all those pesky cable TV rules. But emer
On Mon, 25 Mar 2019, marcel.duregards--- via NANOG wrote:
As SSDP is used with PnP for local LAN service discovery, we are
thinking of:
1) educate our client (take a lot of time)
2) filter incoming SSDP packets (UDP port 1900 at least) in our bgp border
Its always a bad idea to do packet filte
Barry Greene has already written up a great overview, and provides links
to best practices on ISP port filtering, pro & con.
http://www.senki.org/exploitable-port-filtering/
My advice is consistent with Barry's, but I should I done my web research
first :-)
On Mon, 25 Mar 2019, Tom Hill wrote:
On 25/03/2019 09:17, Sean Donelan wrote:
Its always a bad idea to do packet filtering at your bgp border.
Wild assertion. Why?
My mistake trying to keep it simple. I should have just posted Barry
Greene's link.
http://www.senki.org/exploitable
On Mon, 25 Mar 2019, Bryan Holloway wrote:
And we are careful to ensure that any updates are pushed to all edge
ingresses.
BGP-edge filters don't help with customer-to-customer packets within the
same ISP BGP autonomous area. So you would need CPE customer-edge filters
anyway. A small ISP mig
This is being covered on local San Francisco Bay Area media, but if
network engineers aren't paying attention to the local news. Here is an
opportunity for tech folks in the Oakland area to participate in the
Earthquake Early Warning Test.
TEST INFORMATION
Date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
Ti
FCC Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau Seeks Comment on Improving
the Wireless Resiiency Cooperative Framework
Comment Date: April 29, 2019
Reply Date: May 20, 2019
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-19-242A1.pdf
The Bureau particularly welcomes comments from cross-sector stake
Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) and T-NET Japan are demonstrating a hybrid
integration of emergency alerts for broadcasting and broadband smart TVs
at this week's National Association of Broadcasters convention. A
consortium of Korean broadcasters and manufacturers is also demonstrating
UHD. I
The Special Counsel's report is expected to be posted on its website
sometime between 11 a.m. and noon on Thursday, April 18, 2019.
https://www.justice.gov/sco
Since I helped with website for the Starr Report on September 11, 1998, I
wish all website admins and network admins well tommorrow mo
On Wed, 17 Apr 2019, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
Things will probably be easier this time. The Internet has evolved ways
of dealing with exactly this problem. (Avi used to call it “slash-dot
insurance”, but the idea is the same.) Specifically:
Yep, it will be interesting to see where the chokepo
On Wed, 17 Apr 2019, Sean Donelan wrote:
The Special Counsel's report is expected to be posted on its website sometime
between 11 a.m. and noon on Thursday, April 18, 2019.
Its been about 7 hours since the report was released on the SCO web site
and to the news media. Ignoring the conte
On Thu, 2 May 2019, Carsten Bormann wrote:
Why don’t data centers provide a GPS signal along with power and air
conditioning?
Installing a distribution amplifier for 1.5 GHz is not rocket science.
(Or an Ethernet with IEEE1588 precise time, but that is probably asking too
much.)
They should
EXERCISE Only
The scenario was chosen to stress the partcipants, not an actual asteroid
impact. It was a fictional scenario. This was only an exercise.
60 meter asteroid impact in New York City, NY (roughly Central Park, NYC)
10,117,016 population directly affected
Estimated unsurvivable a
On Tue, 7 May 2019, Nick Hilliard wrote:
pfft, asteroid impacts and alien mothership crashes are bound to happen in
Central Park. Everyone knows that!
The next Planetary Defence Conference in 2021 will be hosted in Europe.
That means a major city on the European continent will likely be destr
On Tue, 7 May 2019, Haudy Kazemi wrote:
For any hit, a lot depends on impactor size. With an impactor of the size
that took out the non-avian dinosaurs...the site of impact probably won't
matter to us if humanity is unable to deflect it.
I understand the intent. Earth is still a single point o
The FCC has released its report and analysis of Hurricane Michael impact
on communications: preparation, effect and recovery.
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-releases-report-communication-impacts-hurricane-michael-0
Conclusions and Recommendations
51. Backhaul outages loomed large as an i
On Mon, 13 May 2019, frnk...@iname.com wrote:
One of my takeaways from that article was that burying fiber underground
could likely have avoided many/most of these fiber cuts, though I’m not
familiar enough with the terrain to know how feasible that is.
Nature is more powerful than humans.
In
Amazon has announced a new API for its voice services, i.e. Alexa. This
enables one-way Alexa announcements within a household and from Apps
without prompting by the user.
Although the Amazon blog did not comment about the use of Amazon
Announcements concerning Emergency Alert System broadcast
Reminder: Next week on Monday, June 17, 2019 webinar on network
resiliency for small and rual providers hosted by the FCC.
https://www.fcc.gov/small-rural-communications-provider-network-resiliency-webinar
The Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, in coordination with the
Office of Commu
Federal Communications Commissioner Geoffrey Starks is holding a workshop
next week, June 27, 2019, to hear from interested parties on how to
address the national security threats posed by insecure equipment
within our communications networks.
https://www.fcc.gov/document/commr-starks-annou
If you aren't aware of the Supply Chain Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, you
may want to read this.
The Federal Communications Commission has put the presentations from the
Webinar earlier this week on Network Resiliency for Small and Rural
Communication Providers up on its website.
https://w
On Tue, 25 Jun 2019, Randy Bush wrote:
perhaps the good side of this saga is that it may be an inflection point
I doubt it.
The greyer my hair gets, the crankier I get.
On Fri, 21 Jun 2019, Sean Donelan wrote:
Federal Communications Commissioner Geoffrey Starks is holding a workshop
next week, June 27, 2019, to hear from interested parties on how to address
the national security threats posed by insecure equipment within our
communications networks.
The
On Tue, 25 Jun 2019, Christopher Morrow wrote:
looks like our best and brightest have the problem resolved, phew!
we're all safe now.
The success rate of most groups has been low in this area, so I' willing
let new groups try.
I mostly just to keep an eye on new groups in case they do stupid
I don't think SHAKEN/STIR really addresses the root problems with
spoofing phone numbers, anymore than any of the BGP proposals for spoofing
IP addresses.
Nevertheless, the FCC wants to be seen as doing something. So Chairman
Pai is having a summit to show all the progress.
On Thursday, Jul
The agenda for the SHAKEN/STIR robocall summit was published today.
Date: Thursday, July 11, 2019
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Commission Meeting Room at FCC Headquarters
It will also be live-streamed on the FCC web site.
https://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-pai-announces-agenda-shak
On Tue, 9 Jul 2019, Sean Donelan wrote:
The agenda looks like lots of happy, happy talk from industry
representatives.
In advance of the SHAKEN/STIR robocall summit, AT&T has issued a press
release announcing plans to automatically block robocalls for its
customers.
https://about.att
Chairman Pai issues statement at the conclusion of the SHAKEN/STIR
robocall summit.
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-358430A1.pdf
WASHINGTON, July 11, 2019—Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit
Pai issued the following statement on today’s SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit
at t
So much for the disaster scenarioes about a global clamity, planes
falling out the sky, the end of civil society because a global navigation
satellite system fails. The European Galileo GNSS was down for days, and
life went on.
I guess disasters exercise planners now need a new technical fail
The 2019 FCC Communications Security Reliability and Interoperability
Council (CSRIC) has announced their new working groups for the new cycle.
CSRIC is seeking volunteers to serve on various working groups.
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-19-689A1.pdf
Working Group 1: Alert Orig
The FCC announced the release of a report detailing the cause and impact
of a nationwide CenturyLink network outage that occurred last December,
along with recommendations to help prevent similar outages from occurring
in the future
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-issues-report-centurylink-n
I haven't been paying attention to the WISP market, so I'm not up to speed
on these issues.
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-fines-against-wisps-and-issues-warning-industry-0
The Federal Communications Commission’s Enforcement Bureau today announced
proposed fines and issued a formal
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019, Bradley Burch wrote:
Good equipment uses GPS and manages frequency allowance accordingly.
:)
In the business plan, cheap equipment beats good equipment every time :-)
Cutting corners on safety is great for the business plan too
Do any major ISPs have SLA language about monitoring inter-provider
agreements for route hijacking, route leaks, address spoofing, and so on?
I'm looking for something more proactive than waiting for a customer to
notice a problem and open a trouble ticket.
Facebook announced its new Local Alerts feature. Potential uses include
storm warnings and advisories for extreme temperatures, evacuations, road
closures, active shooter situations, bomb threats, missing person reports,
water main breaks and more. The aim is to keep its users “safe and
in-t
It is too early for damage assessments. BTC, local Bahama
telecommunications company, is reporting widespread power outages, and
intermittent mobile and wireline telephone service. The Abaco Islands in
northern Bahamas seem to be taking the worst of it.
Network measurements sites are repor
On Mon, 2 Sep 2019, Sean Donelan wrote:
It is too early for damage assessments. BTC, local Bahama telecommunications
company, is reporting widespread power outages, and intermittent mobile and
wireline telephone service. The Abaco Islands in northern Bahamas seem to be
taking the worst of it
Telecommunications and mobile services have been restored in about 90% of
the Grand Bahama island area, however network capacity is still limited.
Only about 10% of mobile and telecommunication service has been restored
on the Abaco island. Over 60% of the housing and buildings on Abaco was
Today, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular and Verizon have responded to
the FCC's inquiry about their prepardness for California wildfires and
preventative public safety electric grid shutdowns.
PSHB proceeding number 19-251
https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?proceedings_name=19-251&s
Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison have started Public
Safety Power Shut-offs (PSPS) in California wildfire high-risk areas.
Shut-offs are taking place in three phases. PG&E began shutoffs at
midnight in Northern California and the North Bay counties, while the rest
of th
Questions & some answers...
- Will this affect public water supply?
Generally no. Public water supplies have backup generators. Since
this is only a power shut-off, and no other damage or disaster to the
water system, public water systems will operate as normal. Nevertheless,
its always a
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019, Sean Donelan wrote:
- Will this affect cellphone service?
[...]
Remember, Cable and DSL VOIP and in-home wireless phones need electric power
to operate. There are fewer and fewer copper-fed POTS lines with power from
the telephone central office.
Thanks to the person
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019, William Herrin wrote:
Wasn't California in a similar mess 20 years ago when government regulation
at the time also put PG&E in the position that they couldn't deliver the
electricity their customers wanted? Something to do with hard limits on what
PG&E could do but few limits
The National Weather Service forcast changed a little this afternoon,
with a later onset of high-winds this evening/early morning hours.
But like surfers on Florida coasts before a hurricane hits, some
California folks are saying they don't see any wind -now-. Of
course, the forcast is about
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019, Radu-Adrian Feurdean wrote:
So, during a Power shut-off because of wild*fire* risk, operators are
supposed to be able to re-charge batteries and supply generators with
fuel (I suppose diesel, regular gas being even worse) in the affected
areas ? Did I understand things wron
AT&T statement:
Like all PG&E customers, we are also affected by this power shutdown.
Overall our network continues to perform well and is operating at more
than 97% of normal. We are aware that service for some customers may be
affected by this event and are working as quickly as possible
Comcast statement:
Hi. Parts of our network that connect to your Xfinity service may be in
areas where the commercial power is off leading to a disruption. Once
power is fully restored to those parts of the network, and it is safe to
do so, we will restore service ASAP.
A pre-announced power shut-down is a bit like an open-book disaster exam.
If a city wasn't prepared for a blackout, its going to be a lot worse
after a major earthquake (or other catastrophe) hits.
PG&E CEO Bill Johnson admitted during a Thursday evening press conference
that the utility tho
The FCC asked a half-dozen carriers about their network resilience plans
last month. Comcast was not one of the service providers askedd about
their plans.
The FCC should have looked closer at Comcast in California. While it was
expected many people would loose home Internet, voice, video ser
Why you don't have Comcast service during a power outage:
Throughout the state, Comcast equipment was knocked offline by PG&E’s
power shutdown, Hammel said. The cable company was “only using generators
in very discrete and specific cases where there’s a demonstrated need,”
such as a request
On Fri, 11 Oct 2019, Michael Thomas wrote:
So I knew that telcos are required to battery backup pots, but are isp's
too? I have a dinky little provider who also provides pots, but i have never
been clear whether dsl stays up too in a blackout.
Of course generalizing all service providers isn't
On Fri, 11 Oct 2019, Ted Hatfield wrote:
First of all DSL is not pots.
[]
DSL is a data service that runs on the subscriber loop at the same time as
the voice service. This service is not required to be battery backed and
will invariably stop working when power is cut at the customer e
On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, Michael Thomas wrote:
Of course this is a lot of conjecture on my part... be glad to be clued in by
folks in know.
An old news story, but telco's usually have backup batteries in their
outside plant, cell towers, etc. During power outages, they shuttle small
generators b
On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, Michael Thomas wrote:
deal with the CPE, that the cable plant was the actual problem. The cable
companies should, imo, be held to the same standard as the telcos. Maybe even
moreso these days since IP has taken over everything. The need for reliable
e911 hasn't gone away ju
Unlike the last California public safety power shut-offs (PG&E, SoCal
Edison, SDG&E), the FCC has decided to activate its Disaster Information
Reporting System this time.
DIRS is a voluntary reporting method for wireline, wireless, broadcast,
cable, and VOIP providers.
https://docs.fcc.go
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