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.