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Hawaii: Companies respond to outage inquiry [telecom]
By Caleb Loehrer LIHUE - Efforts are underway to repair the undersea cable responsible for islandwide internet outages in late October and early November, but the problem is 10 miles offshore, over a...
 
37 state AGs accuse CenturyLink of 'weaponizing' class settlement to evade AG suit [telecom]
By Alison Frankel (Reuters) - In these hyper-partisan times, any newly-filed brief that includes signatures from the Attorneys General of 36 states and the District of Columbia is worthy of attention...
 
AT&T extends reach of FirstNet [telecom]
AT&T said it's actively extending the nationwide reach of FirstNet by rolling out high-quality spectrum, known as Band 14. The FirstNet Authority, an independent government agency, granted AT&T the...
 
Re: T-Mobile's 5G network is live in Houston and nationwide
You know what I would like? Working 4G. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/techburger/article/T-Mobile-s-5G-network-is-live-in-Houston-and-14874231.php
 
Spam calls grew 18% in 2019 [telecom]
By Manish Singh Do you feel you have been receiving more spam calls of late? You are probably not wrong - or alone. The volume of spam calls has grown by 18% globally this year, according to...
 
Delaware supports Minnesota suit against CenturyLink [telecom]
By Nick Ciolino The State of Delaware is joining a lawsuit against a global tech company. Minnesota's Attorney General initiated the suit against Louisiana- based CenturyLink in 2017, accusing the...
 
T-Mobile's 5G network is live in Houston and nationwide [telecom]
T-Mobile turned on its 5G network nationally and in Houston Monday, but you'll have to wait until later in the week to get your hands on a smartphone that will let you use it.
 
Update: AT&T says service has been restored [telecom]
According to an AT&T spokesperson, the service outage that has been affecting customers on the Outer Banks over the last several days is now over. In response to a Voice inquiry this morning, AT&T...
 
More #2 [telecom]
Julian Thomas asked: The code point with no holes represents the blank character. The code point with all holes is *Letters-shift. *IIRC, Baudot, like ASCII, used mark-hold. So an idle line was...
 
Why unused CCITT #2 codes [telecom]
Bill asked: There are 32 combinations of bits available from a 5-unit code such as The book *Principles of Telegraphy (Teletypewriter) *at states that three codes in CCITT Alphabet #2 are unassigned....
 
History GTE ad 1972 interconnect [telecom]
Historically, General Telephone/Automatic Electric sold their equipment to (1) independent telephone companies and (2) to businesses seeking a private internal system that was not connected to the...
 
Happy Thanksging, if ... [telecom]
If it's no trouble, and if it's not offensive, and if you're not too stressed out, I wish you and your family a great Thanksgiving. Bill P.S. I have a sever case of political correctness today.
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History push button groceries 1959 [telecom]
Automatic Electric Co. ran an ad touting its "push button" grocery system. It used telephone switching technology. The items would be lifted from the shelf, collected, packaged, and delivered to the...
 
Re: [telecom] History Western Union Telex ads
Ultimate trivia: how many separate symbol combinations are used in the version of Murray code employed for Telex, and why?
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Sacha Baron Cohen is the latest powerful voice to misunderstand Section 230 [telecom]
The law helps companies like Facebook remove hate speech - so why does Cohen want it to go away? By Casey Newton "I'm one of the last people you'd expect to hear warning about the danger of...