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Duluth, MN: Observation Hill residents without internet service [telecom]
Observation Hill residents without internet service By: Andee Erickson Customers of CenturyLink on Duluth's Observation Hill have been without internet service since Friday, Oct. 11 due to the...
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CenturyLink Customer Data Exposed [telecom]
Customer names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers were left open on a MongoDB server for 10 months, researchers report. A CenturyLink customer information database with some 2.8 milliion...
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The Phone Call Isn't Dead, It's Evolving [telecom]
Here's a crazy idea: What if people started using their smartphones to actually speak to each other again? By Katherine Bindley When researchers at Yahoo Labs wanted to learn more about how young...
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'Bermuda Triangle:' Charlotte's South End constantly loses cell
By Bria Bell CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Having weak cell phone service and a bad internet connection is frustrating for anyone of us. Charlotte's South End, which is filled with apartments, businesses...
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11th Circ. Lets AT&T Off The Hook Over Soured Deal [telecom]
Law360 (October 17, 2019, 8:36 PM EDT) -- AT&T can't be sued in Georgia for failing to make good on its promises to fund the launch of an online news streaming company because the startup waited too...
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Dozens of Oregon customers file lawsuit against AT&T over surcharge [telecom]
AT&T, a designated "utility," wrongly billed its customers for the Portland Clean Energy Fund. PORTLAND, Ore. - A Portland lawyer has organized a class action lawsuit against AT&T over a billing...
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Some of the UK's phone number infrastructure relies on Yahoo
This is 100 percent true, but don't be worried: they use the group as an email list. By Bijan Stephe Yahoo Groups is about to shut down, and it's taking a lot of the old web with it. All content that...
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Lebanon plans to charge a fee for internet voice calls [telecom]
FaceTime and WhatsApp could cost you. By Jon Fingas If you're planning a trip to Beirut, you might want to think carefully about starting an internet phone call. Lebanon's cabinet has agreed to...
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Using Old Cellphones to Listen for Illegal Loggers [telecom]
Indonesian villagers are trying out a treetop surveillance system that uses recycled phones and artificial intelligence software to detect chain saws. Indonesian villagers are trying out a treetop...
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GSA Implements Restrictions On Certain Chinese-Made
By Jonathan E. Meyer, Townsend L. Bourne, David S. Gallacher and Bryce Chadwick On September 9, 2019, the U.S. General Services Administration ("GSA") announced it would be issuing a mass modification...
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FCC Internet Deregulation Survives Court Challenge [telecom]
By Scott Feira, John P. Elwood and Peter J. Schildkraut On October 1, 2019, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit largely upheld the 2018 Restoring Internet Freedom Order, in which the Federal...
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D.C. Circuit Vacates FCC Order Preempting State Net Neutrality
By Brett A. Shumate, Michael B. Hazzard and Bruce A. Olcott In the latest development in the Federal Communications Commission's ("FCC") decade-long approach to net neutrality, the U.S. Court of...
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Cell Service Returns to Kashmir, Allowing First Calls in Months [telecom]
After imposing a complete communications blackout two months ago, the Indian government on Monday partially restored cellphone service in the Kashmir Valley. By Samee Yasir SRINAGAR, Kashmir When the...
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Inexpensive, unpatched phones put billions of users' privacy at risk [telecom]
Billions who only connect with cheap Android phones pay with their personal info. By Kate Cox Privacy, it seems, is increasingly a luxury reserved for those who can afford it. "Free" services are...
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Attackers exploit an iTunes zeroday to install ransomware [telecom]
Apple patches actively exploited flaw that let ransomware crooks evade AV protection. By Dan Goodin Attackers exploited a zeroday vulnerability in Apple's iTunes and iCloud programs to infect Windows...
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