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Is Universal Service At Risk? [telecom]
by Craig A. Gilley (Washington) In Consumers' Research v. FCC, the Universal Service Fund (USF) is under legal and constitutional attack in the Fifth Circuit. A decision striking the USF would have...
 
FCC Announces Grants In The ACP And Teases Upcoming New Online ACP Application Release [telecom]
by Michael Dover (Los Angeles) In November 2022, the FCC published a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) seeking community partners to develop outreach programs to promote awareness of the Affordable...
 
Outage might prevent 911 calls for some, Harrison County OEM says [telecom]
by: Sam Kirk CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — The Harrison County Office of Emergency Management (OEM) announced that an outage may prevent cell phone users with certain providers from making emergency...
 
Infuriated parents to protest cell tower placement at Wyandotte elementary school [telecom]
WYANDOTTE (WWJ) - A group of concerned Downriver parents are gathering Friday morning to protest a T-Mobile cell phone tower and generator that appeared right on top of an elementary school earlier...
 
Plan To Jam Mobile Phones In Schools Is Madness [telecom]
By: Lewin Day Mobile phones in schools. If you’re a teacher, school staffer, or a parent, you’ve likely got six hundred opinions about this very topic, and you will have had six hundred arguments...
 
T-Mobile and Verizon Take Different Paths Down a Dark Road [telecom]
T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon all claim to be the best, but a major watchdog has big questions. By Daniel Kline Most wireless ads involve one company claiming to be better than its rivals. Some of those...
 
CA: Some T-Mobile customers in Plumas County without service; no estimated time for restoration [telecom]
By Editor Plumas News reader Jenn Stetler as been without her T-Mobile cell phone service for nearly two weeks and she is sharing what she has learned with other individuals who use the same service...
 
CWA Organizing Update [telecom]
March 23, 2023 Verizon Wireless On Monday, workers rallied in Seattle to celebrate Verizon Wireless Worker Jesse Mason's return to work. Verizon illegally fired Mason in early 2022 in retaliation for...
 
'It's just overwhelming': Community supports Bellevue (Nebraska) restaurant struggling without internet, phone service [telecom]
"BELLEVUE, Neb. - On a Tuesday in late March, the lunch-rush line at John's Grecian Delight is out the door. The packed house is armed with an appetite and, as one patron put it, 'cash. Lots of cash.'...
 
[telecom] FTC proposes simple "click to cancel" requirement
[FTC press release] Federal Trade Commission Proposes Rule Provision Making it Easier for Consumers to "Click to Cancel" Recurring Subscriptions and Memberships Proposal seeks to make it as easy to...
 
Wyandotte parents meeting with T-Mobile to discuss 5G tower on school building [telecom]
By: Darren Cunningham, Matt Dale WYANDOTTE, Mich. (WXYZ) — Tuesday night, parents in Wyandotte are preparing to meet with T-Mobile to discuss a 5G cellphone tower built atop Washington Elementary...
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Wyandotte 5G antenna debacle continues, T-Mobile and 2018 board president speak at recent school board meeting [telecom]
By Terell Bailey WYANDOTTE, MICH. (CBS DETROIT) - The ever-evolving story out of Wyandotte continued Tuesday evening. Parents and guardians want a T-mobile antenna gone from Washington Elementary...
 
T-Mobile reps walk out of Wyandotte meeting as tempers flare over cell site on school [telecom]
By Dave Kinchen, David Komer and online producer T-Mobile officials leave Wyandotte school board meeting early over cell tower controversy WYANDOTTE, Mich. (FOX 2) - A Wyandotte school board meeting...
 
Vintage Teletype Machine with table +etc [telecom]
Anyone looking for a Teletype machine should check this one, being sold on Ebay for a "Buy It Now" price of $400; the selling will also consider offers. One of the labels on the side of the table says...
 
Fiber to the Home [telecom]
> Frontier is not a very progressive telco. I haven't worked there for > several years, but I've never heard of someone being pushed off of > their service for fiber. It sounds like a marketing ploy...
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