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Telecom Tweets of the Week: Net neutrality rants, Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 raves

by Kelly Hill
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Verizon (FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s former employer) stores were the target of pro-net neutrality protests, along with congressional offices:

Qualcomm touted its new Snapdragon 845 at an event this week and was generally well-received:

https://twitter.com/jon1bray/status/938567147835473921

https://twitter.com/SteveKCostello/status/938846836294533120

https://twitter.com/sherifhanna/status/938821335987425282

Text messaging turned 25 this week:

Stephen Wilkus, CTO of Spectrum Financial Partners, has been doing regular Twitter updates on operators’ progress in restoring service in Puerto Rico. In addition to an animation of the progress, this week he took a look at the impact of Project Loon.

Project Loon’s balloon-based coverage is often disappointing on a daily basis, Wilkus notes:

But a month’s worth of data gives a different view.

Speaking of natural disasters, California is feeling the brunt of another wave of wildfires, this time in the southern part of the state. Test company Keysight Technologies gave the Harvard Business review insights on how it responded when its headquarters in Santa Rosa, Calif. had to be evacuated during fires earlier this fall.

These were two of the most striking images from the fires on Twitter this week.

With Christmas just a few weeks away, I’ll leave you with this image of T-Mo CEO John Legere’s spin on holiday spirit:

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Kelly Hill reports on network test and measurement, AI infrastructure and regulatory issues, including spectrum, for RCR Wireless News. She began covering the wireless industry in 2005, focusing on carriers and MVNOs, then took a few years’ hiatus and returned to RCR Wireless News to write about heterogeneous networks (remember those?) and network infrastructure. Kelly is an Ohio native with a masters degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where she focused on science writing and multimedia. She has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, The Oregonian and The Canton Repository. She lives in northern Virginia, not far from Data Center Alley.

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