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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...
 
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,...
 
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...
 
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...
 
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...
 
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...
 
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...
 
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...
 
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?
 
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...
 
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...
 
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...
 
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...
 
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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