I hope your recovery goes well. I have attempted to post several things
from two different email servers, and they have bounced every time. We'll
see if this makes it. Here are a few comments in case this makes it
through.

There have been several posts about TCPA. I'm amazed that companies are
still trying to do mass outgoing marketing calls. I have stopped answering
my phone unless the caller ID is in my contact list. If it is indeed
something important, I let them leave a voicemail. If a
telemarketer/robocaller leaves a voicemail, it is forwarded to the FCC.

Telecom is not "horse and buggy." It is becoming more and more important
every day. It's just that we have largely moved away from circuit switched voice to packet switched whatever (including voice and video). There's a
lot of technology to discuss including packet routing techniques,
transmission (fiber, etc.).

Telecom regulation is interesting. Why should Internet be treated
differently than POTS? All should contribute to the USF. All should be regulated in the same manner. How is zero rating different from an 800
number? How does reciprocal compensation compare with charging for peering
of Internet traffic? How does ISP ownership of media companies compare
with the Bell Computer decisions (permitting Bell to sell communications,
but not computer services)?

Lots of stuff to go in Telecom Digest!

THANKS!

Harold



On Sun, September 19, 2021 2:30 am, telecom-request@telecom-digest.org wrote:

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From: Bill Horne

<telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: [telecom] New Direction For the Telecom Digest

A few days ago, I fell and broke my wrist in several places. Today, I

was released from the hospital after a five-day stay and major surgery.

The road ahead, I am told, will include about four months of mending,

physical therapy, and learning how to use a text-to-speech converter for writing on my computer. I might have to take another driver's exam to demonstrate proficiency at driving one-handed.

Men plan, and God laughs: I was on track to make 2021 the first year

during which I published an issue of the digest every day. I wanted to
have a banner year to look back on as I approach my 70th birthday next February, when I was planning on taking a slower pace with both my other activities and the Digest. That change must happen now.

It's probably for the best: as cellular technology and the Internet have

become commodified, there's been a lot less interest in the nuts & bolts
of the telephone network, and even less in its history. I think most
telephone users have come to regard their phones as, at best, a business communications tool, an, at worst, as an electronic leash tying them to
their employer 24/7/365.

So it goes, and has gone before: the horseless carriage brought
pollution and a transportation monoculture that has saddled our
exurban workers with no other practical transportation choices, a cadre

of parts-swappers whose only real expertise is in gouging their
customers at every turn, and confiscatory taxation. The

telecommunications industry, like the auto industry, will have to evolve

into something better if it is to survive, but I can't keep chronicling
an industry that no longer serves the public.

Suffice to say, I won't be the one-man-band creating almost all the

content in the Telecom Digest going forward. I'll remain as the

Moderator for now, but the content must, and should, come from the readers.

--
Bill Horne

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