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Frontier, an ISP in 29 states, plans to file for bankruptcy [telecom]
Frontier Communications is planning to file for bankruptcy within two months, Bloomberg reported last week. The telco "is asking creditors to help craft a turnaround deal that includes filing for...
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Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained -- sources [telecom]
Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devices in the...
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President Signs Sweeping New Robocall Legislation [telecom]
By Scott Dailard, J.G. Harrington and Robert M. McDowell On December 30, President Donald Trump signed new legislation aimed at addressing illegal robocalls and, particularly, scam calls. The...
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Morgan County, WV: Phone trouble hit 911, hospital, homes [telecom]
By Editor Customers of Frontier Communications were hit with telephone service outages yesterday, Wednesday, January 15 and continue to have trouble today in certain parts of Morgan County.
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Idaho Ranks High On List of States Most Bothered By
You probably get a handful of these spam calls every week. Imagine adding the number you get together with the number everyone else in the Gem State gets. The sum? A very annoyed population of...
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First CenturyLink, now Comcast settles lawsuit with Minnesota AG over payment practices [telecom]
AG Keith Ellison accused Comcast with not being up front about the cost of services. By Adam Uren The Minnesota Attorney General's Office has settled its second lawsuit with a major telecoms provider...
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CenturyLink reports 911 outage in Immokalee, FL area [telecom]
IMMOKALEE, Fla. - CenturyLink is reporting a 911 outage in the Immokalee area. The outage means some 750 customers may not be able to dial 911 and reach an emergency dispatcher. If you need emergency...
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Supreme Court to Review Constitutionality of Federal Robocall Ban
Supreme Court to Review Constitutionality of Federal Robocall Ban: The Supreme Court has aqreed to hear a challenge to the constitutionality of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, a federal law...
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Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants [telecom]
Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants Whether the Government Debt Collection Exception to the Robocall Ban in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act is Unconstitutional and Should Be...
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Five Major US Wireless Carriers Are Vulnerable to SIM Swapping
by Silviu Stahie Most wireless carriers in the United States are vulnerable to SIM swapping attacks and lack proper procedures to fend off hackers and other bad actors, Princeton researchers have...
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AT&T Settles Worker's Leave-Based Goals Case Ahead of Jury Trial
AT&T Corp. will pay $1,300 to resolve a call center employee's alle- gations that the company discriminated and retaliated against him for taking medical leave by failing to adjust his performance...
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AT&T Urges Miss. Justices To Uphold $4.5M Tax Credits [telecom]
By Paul Williams Eight AT&T entities are entitled to a total of $4.5 million in Mississippi investment tax credits by applying a credit cap to its group's entire income instead of each company's, the...
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AT&T under pressure to defy Maduro's censors [telecom]
MIAMI (AP) - Venezuela's opposition together with the Trump administration is looking to recruit AT&T in its fight to oust Nicolás Maduro. State Department officials met in December with from AT&T...
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Verizon Launches 'Private' Search Engine After Years of Violating Its Customers' Privacy [telecom]
Verizon spied on consumers for decades - then lobbied fiercely to prevent the government from doing anything about it. Now it wants you to trust it with your web searches. By Karl Bode Verizon has...
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'Modernization' leaves Atlas Fire victim in Napa CA without internet [telecom]
NAPA, Calif. (KGO) -- Just more than two years after being burned out of their home by the Atlas Fire, a Napa couple is looking for a return to normalcy. What they missed after returning home might...
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