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Coronavirus Help: Verizon Offers Nearly Free Internet to Those in Need [telecom]
How do you get it? What do you need to do? How does it work? This is all you need to know. by Stephen Silver Lifeline is a federal government program that allows discounted phone and Internet service...
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Cybersecurity Lawyer Who Flagged The WHO Hack Warns Of 'Massive' Remote Work Risks [telecom]
By MOHAMAD ELBARDICY & EMMA BOWMAN Large numbers of companies are rolling out mandatory work-from-home policies to help limit the risks posed by the coronavirus outbreak. But cybersecurity experts...
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Verizon customers making 800 million calls a day now - twice as many as on Mothers Day [telecom]
Verizon customers making 800 million calls a day now - double the amount on Mother's Day By Taylor Locke As people across the country remain isolated at home due to the spread of COVID-19, Verizon has...
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Verizon Sued Over Alleged iPhone Promo Scam [telecom]
By Farron Cousins An Arkansas couple claim they fell victim to Verizon's "bait and switch" scheme in a two for one iPhone deal. According to plaintiffs George Wise and Barbara Gilbert-Wise, this deal...
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Verizon, Sprint resolve issue preventing customers from calling 911 via cell phone [telecom]
by Kenzie Margiott | Saturday, March 28th 2020 Verizon and Sprint outages are preventing customers from calling 911 via cell phone. UPDATE as of 9:37 p.m.: Both Verizon and Sprint say the issue...
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What is this thing [telecom]
So I recently got this with some telecom stuff and a Western Union loop supply on ebay. I know its a gauge or dial of some sort; there was a similar one on ebay showing a pointer attached to the coil...
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AT&T offering free wireless data to school districts for remote learning [telecom]
AT&T has announced that it is giving free wireless data to school districts to provide to students as they adjust to learning from home. AT&T has announced that it is giving free wireless data to...
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How to get Verizon and AT&T data-cap fees waived during the pandemic [telecom]
Verizon, AT&T waive mobile fees if you tell them pandemic hurt your finances. By Jon Brodkin Verizon Wireless and AT&T say they're both waiving mobile-data overage fees to help customers deal with the...
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Frontier Communications to Enter 60-Day Grace Period on Interest Payment [telecom]
Continuing Constructive Discussions with BondholdersServing Customers Without Interruption and Working with Business Partners as Usual Frontier Communications Corporation FTR, -6.49% today announced...
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Lawsuit forces CenturyLink to stop charging "Internet Cost Recovery Fee" [telecom]
Settlement brings refunds to customers but applies only in Washington state. By Jon Brodkin CenturyLink has agreed to pay a $6.1 million penalty after Washington state regulators found that the...
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Arbitrator's Mistake Justifies Reversal in AT&T, Union Dispute [telecom]
An arbitrator had the power to vacate a grievance award in favor of the Communications Workers of America and issue a modified opinion siding with an AT&T subsidiary after realizing he'd made a...
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Verizon and AT&T are waiving overage fees, but there's a catch [telecom]
With the U.S. economy in dire shape and millions of people currently struggling to pay their bills, Verizon and AT&T recently announced that they will not charge subscribers overage fees for exceeding...
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Verizon Is The Only US Wireless Carrier Charging Extra For 5G [telecom]
By Karl Bode By now we've established that while fifth-generation (5G) wireless will result in faster, more resilient networks, the technology has been over-hyped to an almost comical degree. Yes,...
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Verizon Must Face Strike Workers' Overtime Suit In DC [telecom]
Verizon Communications Inc. hoped to convince a New York federal judge to kill a suit accusing it of stiffing strike replacement workers on overtime pay with its argument that the claims didn't belong...
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YouTube, Netflix Begin Slowing Services to Handle Coronavirus Strain [telecom]
The internet should generally hold up under the load of a pandemic. But content providers say they're taking extra precautions just to make sure. By Karl Bode As millions of Americans hunker down to...
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