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Re: PG&E blackout knocks out one-quarter of Sonoma County [telecom]
As I see it, the power problems result from three bad policies: 1) Inadequate rates for the power company to properly maintain its network; 2) Public policy that would not allow necessary tree...
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Few regulations apply to Centurylink following statewide outage
It's not clear what action, if any, the state could take following a sudden phone service outage last week. After a construction crews cut a Centurylink fiber line in Kansas City, 911 centers,...
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CenturyLink, West Safety To Pay More Than $500K For August 911
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - A 911 outage on Aug. 1, 2018, prevented hundreds of emergency calls from routing across Minnesota, North Dakota and North Carolina. This week, the FCC announced settlements...
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Hawaii Senator Schatz wants answers from Spectrum about lengthy
U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz wrote a letter to Spectrum that read, in part: Accordingly, to understand how Spectrum is addressing these challenges and ensuring that these types of outages do not happen...
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Mobile carrier to launch coast-to-coast 5G in December [telecom]
By Alexander Soule A year after Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobile revealed initial steps toward 5G wireless broadband in select cities nationally, rival T-Mobile announced its own grand vision to light...
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AT&T To Pay $60 Million Fine To Settle Allegations Of Misleading "Unlimited Data" Plans [telecom]
Speaking of paying up, AT&T agreed this week to cough up a $60 million fine to resolve allegations that the telecommunications giant misled millions of consumers when it promised them "unlimited" data...
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Firefox at 15: its rise, fall, and privacy-first renaissance [telecom]
Firefox at 15: its rise, fall, and privacy-first renaissance Mozilla's browser debuted on November 9, 2004, and became a phenom before losing ground to Chrome. Now it's doubling down on user privacy...
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Fusion Trying To Skip Out On $31.2M In Debt, Creditors Say [telecom]
Microsoft and telecom providers CenturyLink and AT&T are objecting to what they said is cloud computing company Fusion Connect Inc.'s attempt to erase more than $31.2 million they claim the debtor...
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Re: Pennsylvania Gives Telephone Subscribers New Protections
Robocallers have been blatantly ignoring previous laws like the Do Not Call List, what makes legislators think this will be any more successful?
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FCC crackdown on cellphone subsidies leaves millions without
It's supposed to curb fraud, but it may have punished the poor. By Jon Fingas The Ajit Pai-era FCC has spent much of its energy cracking down on claimed abuses of the Lifeline subsidy program, but...
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Failure to Encrypt Mobile Devices Leads to $3 Million HIPAA Settlement [telecom]
The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) has agreed to pay $3 million to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and take substantial...
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The FCC's Reassigned Number Database [telecom]
On December 12, 2018, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") adopted a new rule to establish a reassigned number database. The database is intended to both enable callers to verify the status...
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Pennsylvania Gives Telephone Subscribers New Protections Against Telemarketers And Robocallers [telecom]
by Bob Jaworski Highlights * Pennsylvania has enacted House Bill 318, which expands and extends the protections given to Pennsylvania residential and wireless telephone subscribers by the 1996...
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AT&T to Pay $60 Million to Settle Claims It Misled Data
FTC alleged wireless company charged customers for 'unlimited' plans after reducing their data speeds By Dave Sebastian AT&T Inc. has agreed to pay $60 million to settle the Federal Trade Commission's...
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xkcd: Software Updates [telecom]
xkcd: Software Updates
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