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T-Mobile to fight $91M FCC fine over location data sales [telecom]
by Bevin Fletcher T-Mobile said it intends to fight a $91.6 million fine proposed by the FCC against the carrier related to unauthorized sales of customers' real-time location data to third-parties....
 
Seventh Circuit Adopts Narrow Definition of Autodialer Under The TCPA [telecom]
By Shannon Petersen & David Poell The Seventh Circuit has recently joined the Second, Third, Sixth and Eleventh Circuits in adopting a narrow interpretation of Automatic Telephone Dialing System...
 
Why 5G Won't Follow The Typical Deployment Approach [telecom]
Why 5G Won't Follow The Typical Deployment Approach (And New Opportunities For Investors In Broadband) by Joe Kochan and Brian Greene Mobile network infrastructure deployment in the U.S. has always...
 
Get In The Know! Our 2019 TCPA Year-End Review Is Finally Here!
As has been my tradition, I start each year with a review of all the TCPA cases that were decided the previous year, and 2020 will be no different - although this review is a little later than I would...
 
Changes Coming To New York Telemarketing Law [telecom]
On March 1, 2020, New York's "Nuisance Call Act" will go into effect, bringing significant change to the State's existing telemarketing law. The legislation, which was signed into law by Governor...
 
Street payphones in NYC to be removed [telecom]
ABC News reported that street corner pay telephones will be removed in New York City. This includes four phone booths. for article please see: also Pay phones? How quaint. Phone booths are a thing of...
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Re: [telecom] 911 operators couldn't trace the location of a dying student's phone. It's a growing issue.
Uh-oh. Chinese, early February, probably recently arrived in the US as he still had his Chinese SIM card, and dying of "the flu". Anyone connecting those dots? ***** Moderator's Note ***** Sound the...
 
911 outage: 'We need some answers,' Salt Lake City 911 director
by Michael Locklear SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) - Salt Lake City's 911 director is calling for answers on what caused this weekend's outage. Nearly all day on Saturday, some people calling for help in an...
 
Utah's 911 system crashed [telecom]
By Scott D. Pierce Beginning Saturday morning and continued intermittently until Sunday morning, cellphone users were unable to connect to emergency services in areas across the state. The problem...
 
Cut fiber line affects hospital communication, more in Olean area
Communications to Fawcett Memorial Hospital and Bayfront Health Port Charlotte were hurt after a cut fiber optic line disabled Centurylink services in the Olean Boulevard area Thursday morning,...
 
CenturyLink to Cut 150 Jobs in Minnesota [telecom]
The affected workers perform installations and repairs. By Dan Niepow Internet and phone service provider CenturyLink plans to lay off 150 workers in Minnesota. The Louisiana-based company is reducing...
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Re: [telecom] 911 operators couldn't trace the location of a
Certainly. Long ago American society recognized there were tradeoffs between the various freedoms granted by the Constitution and abuses by those who exploit them. For instance, society is always...
 
FCC votes to auction C-band satellite spectrum for 5G use [telecom]
FCC votes to auction C-band satellite spectrum for 5G use - and potentially pay satellite operators billions for the trouble. By Richard Lawler FCC chairman Ajit Pai has been pressing for an auction...
 
T-Mobile customers are the most likely to get 5G on their new Galaxy S20 phones - but there's a catch [telecom]
Antonio Villas-Boas, Business Insider US I was able to connect to T-Mobile's long-range 5G network on a small, windy country road, where AT&T and Verizon's 5G networks are nowhere to be found....
 
MetTel lands 2 EIS task orders in February [telecom]
by Dave Nyczepir MetTel secured its first two task orders, worth hundreds of millions of dollars each, under the government's flagship telecommunications and network modernization contract in...