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To: Julius Wong who wrote (201816)	9/30/2023 9:03:38 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217887

a Sunday giggle ... Sky suffers mobile outages in push to strip Huawei from UK 5G networks ft.com Sky suffers mobile outages in push to strip Huawei from UK 5G networks Industry executives have warned for years about disruption for consumers Ministers have told mobile groups that they need to remove Huawei equipment from their core 5G networks by the end of this year © REUTERS The government’s drive to rip out Huawei kit from Britain’s telecoms network has led to mobile outages for customers of Sky, in the first sign of disruption long warned about by industry executives. Ministers have told mobile groups that they need to remove Huawei equipment from their “core” 5G networks by the end of this year given national security fears over use of the Chinese equipment. This deadline was extended by a year in 2022 given warnings of a significant risk of network disruption and impact on consumers, despite the added national security risk. However, even with this extension, recent mobile outages for Sky Mobile customers have been linked to the removal of Huawei from its network equipment, according to two people familiar with the situation. One added that there could be other factors also contributing to outages. Sky is one of the largest so-called “mobile virtual network operators” in the UK with more than 3mn customers. Although it uses the O2 network infrastructure, Sky provides its own equipment to offer mobile services. Sky declined to comment on the outages but added: “Sky is fully complying with government requirements on our mobile network, whilst making every effort to ensure we limit any potential impact on customers.” The outages are the first sign of the disruption caused by the massive task of ripping out and replacing Huawei kit across the UK’s mobile providers. In 2020, Philip Jansen, chief executive of BT, warned about outages if it moved too quickly in stripping equipment from its 5G network. Jansen said the industry could need at least five years — and ideally seven — to remove the Chinese infrastructure. Taking Huawei out of both its mobile and broadband networks would cost £500mn over five years, he said at the time. The government has said that Huawei needs to be removed from “core” network functions by January 2023, and asked operators to provide an update on their progress by July this year. Ministers have said that the use of the Chinese equipment in the UK network poses a “severe national security risk”. Huawei has always denied its technology was a national security risk. The government order covers 35 mobile operators and networks. Telecoms executives said that the industry was now entering an intense period in moving customers off Huawei, with teams working flat out to minimise disruption whilst meeting all necessary deadlines. One said: “High risk vendor (to use the government term) extraction was always going to be a challenge — the scale and speed of the work is unprecedented in the industry.” That person also said that it was costly, pointing out that in other countries such as the US there have been government subsidies to support the work. Sky Mobile customers earlier this year took to social media to complain that their mobile internet was no longer working. Some were left with no mobile signal. One person close to the situation said that this was linked to the “migration” of Huawei equipment, although another said that there was no certainty that this was the sole or main cause of the outage at that time. Executives said that other mobile networks were also at risk of disruption given the speed of the shift away from Huawei equipment, which is used at phone mast sites and telephone exchanges. Analysts have also warned that the slower rollout in the UK of 5G networks, compared with other countries, is linked to disruption caused by the government’s ban on kit from Huawei.

To: Julius Wong who wrote (201816)	9/30/2023 9:11:01 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217887

Here at home I have dual (upstairs / downstairs, in case anything happens and the wife yelps and kids go bananas, and backed up by 5G tethering via cellular) fibre optics cable links w/ the cyber-verse, and I thought everyone on mainland have same, but apparently still not the case lightreading.com Fifth of China's broadband users access speeds of 1 Gbit/s or above Latest data reveal 22% of broadband customers in China have access to downlink speeds of at least 1 Gbit/s, as ITU says another 100 million people worldwide gained Internet access over the past year. Latest data reveals 22% of broadband customers in China have access to downlink speeds of at least 1 Gbit/s, as ITU says another 100 million people worldwide gained Internet access over the past year. China is crushing it in fixed-line broadband as well as mobile, latest government stats reveal. The country's three big operators reported 622 million fixed-line broadband users at the end of August, up 32.1 million from the start of the year, according to MIIT figures. Of that number, 139 million, or 22%, are accessing downlink speeds of 1 Gbit/s and above, up 47 million for the year. All told, of the 587 million Chinese broadband users, 94% are on 100 Mbit/s and above. As has been widely reported, besides these hefty broadband numbers, China has far and away the world's largest 5G user base, reaching 676 million as of June 30. Its success in rolling out advanced infrastructure and racking up big subscriber adds is due to several factors. These include a supply-side driven approach, the ability of policy-makers to force down prices to drive take-up, and a huge digital marketplace led by firms such as Tencent and Bytedance. This has not generated economic returns for the operators. China Telecom, for example, reported broadband average revenue per user (ARPU) of 48.2 Chinese yuan (US$6.60) and mobile ARPU of RMB46.2 ($6.33) in the first half. But it's been a smashing success in narrowing the digital divide and putting into place some of the building blocks of a modern digital economy. Meanwhile the rest of the developing world has hit a tipping point where consumer demand is now driving digital take-up, the latest ITU State of Broadband report argues. Fundamental shift It states the number of the unconnected fell by 100 million to 2.6 billion over the past 12 months. “There has been a fundamental shift from supply-driven communications access to demand-driven communication,” it says. The growth in access to connectivity was a knock-on effect of the digital transformation and the post-pandemic pivot, which had resulted in stronger demand for digital products and services, it said. “We now need to focus on the usage gap to connect the almost 3 billion people who could be, but are not yet, online,” the report states. It also calls on policy makers to take stock of lessons learned during the pandemic over the positive economic impact of infrastructure. “By recognizing the undergirding and cross-cutting enablement of communications for everything from health and education through to entertainment and transactions, the cost/return equation would be transformed,” it notes.

To: Julius Wong who wrote (201816)	10/7/2023 11:52:13 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217887

Re <<Hunter is a very lucky man>> ... is all this stuff below true? partly true? or all alt-news? zerohedge.com Hunter Biden Raided Daughter's College Fund For $20,000 To Buy Hookers And Drugs Hunter Biden raided his daughter's college fund to the tune of $20,000 after his bankers said he had just 44 cents left in his account amid a months-long drug and hooker binge. [I deleted pic] On Dec. 17, 2018, Hunter's money managers warned of his extremely low balance, according to records obtained by the Daily Mail. That's exactly when, according to Hunter's Memoir, he was in his "penultimate odyssey through full blown addiction," when he was dropping thousands of dollars on prostitutes and crack cocaine. [url=][/url] In response to the warning, Hunter ordered the bankers to transfer $20,000 from his daughter Maisy's educational savings account, early withdrawal consequences be damned. "liquidate what you can' and 'Live [love] you both," Hunter wrote. At the time, Maisy, now 22, was in her final year of high school. She and her two older sisters, along with Joe Biden and First Lady Jill, had tried to stage an intervention just weeks earlier at the President's Delaware home to get Hunter to go back to rehab. He promised to go, but instead ended up smoking crack in a hotel, he confessed in his 2021 memoir, Beautiful Things. Emails and messages from his laptop show money he took from Maisy's educational savings account went in part to paying various suspected prostitutes who visited him at hotels in the following days, his Porsche 911 car loan, sex webcam subscription fees, and other personal expenses. Hunter's assistant Katie Dodge plaintively emailed him on December 28 that year that he had University of Pennsylvania tuition bills of $27,945 due (likely for his eldest daughter, Naomi), a $1,700 payment for his Porsche, $4,244.70 for Maisy's high school Sidwell Friends, her $3,000 paycheck and $1,000 for another employee. Hunter tersely told Dodge to pay for the Porsche and his health insurance, but that she would only be getting half her paycheck – and that he would 'deal with tuitions when time comes.' -Daily Mail "If you haven't noticed Katie my business partner is now a prisoner on death row in China," Hunter barked at Dodge, referring to CEFC chairman Ye Jinanmang, his Chinese partner who had been arrested on corruption charges in Beijing that year. [url=]Hunter's private bankers at Wells Fargo sent him an email on December 17, 2018 warning that he had just 44 cents left in his account, according to records obtained by DailyMail.com from his abandoned laptop[/url][url=] Hunter responded with a jumbled reply, ordering them to transfer $20,000 from his daughter Maisy's educational savings account [/url][url=] Hunter told his wealth managers: 'liquidate what you can' and 'Live [love] you both' [/url] According to IRS Criminal Investigation agent Joseph Ziegler, an investigation into Hunter's financial dealings was stonewalled before he blew the whistle to Congress - where he revealed that Hunter ended up looting Maisy's entire college savings account - and never paid taxes on it. Ziegler testified that Hunter "failed to report the income related to a distribution he had taken from one his children's 529 [educational savings] Plan in 2019, additional income of approximately $39,820," adding "He also had personal distributions he had claimed as business deductions totaling approximately $12,791. [url=][/url] "As of today's date, this alleged additional income of approximately $52,611 has not been reported to the IRS and the alleged additional taxes of approximately $22,860 has not been paid to the IRS," Ziegler said in an August 2, 2023 affidavit.