[VoiceOps] News about surges in Traffic with AT&T and Verizon

[Mary Lou Carey]

I get e-mails from USTelecom Daily Lead and two of their articles were 
very interesting in light of the conversation about calls blocking 
yesterday. I thought you all might be interested because it explains a 
whole lot!

MARY LOU CAREY
BackUP Telecom Consulting
Office: 615-791-9969
Cell: 615-796-1111

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Vestberg: Verizon prepared for surge in network traffic
Date: 2020-03-20 12:58 PM
 From: "USTelecom dailyLead" <ustelecom at dailylead.com>
To: marylou at backuptelecom.com



  		News of the Day

  AT&T boosts capacity in spectrum-sharing deal [6]
DISH Network is loaning AT&T 20 MHz of spectrum in the AWS-4 band, as
well as its entire supply of 700 MHz airwaves, for two months. This is
the third spectrum-sharing arrangement that the satellite provider has
made since Sunday as telecoms prepare for extra traffic from people
working at home. FULL STORY: FierceWireless [6] (3/19),  PC Magazine [7]
(3/19),  The Verge [8] (3/19)
  [9]  [10]  [11]  [12]


  		Business & Industry Watch

  Vestberg: Verizon prepared for surge in network traffic [16]
Verizon executives say their fiber and cellular-based networks have held
up as web traffic has steadily grown in recent days as more people work
from home and stay indoors. "We're always built for being prepared for
different types of changes in the network," CEO Hans Vestberg told CNBC.