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Battle for net neutrality continues with D.C circuit court ruling [telecom]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NEXSTAR) - The FCC acted within its rights to roll back Obama-era net neutrality protections, according to a recent D.C. circuit court ruling. But, that ruling also said states can...
 
San Francisco: You can store electricity before the outage: here's how [telecom]
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) - One of the biggest lifelines in a power outage can be your cellphone. But will it keep working during an outage? If you plan ahead, you can store up electricity in those devices....
 
Mobile Phone Providers Prepare for Power Outages [telecom]
Some wireless phones should still function, but service may be spotty By Chris Chmura and James Jackson Mobile phone providers are gearing up to keep wireless service up and running this week, as much...
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Frontier cited by Nevada Attorney General's office [telecom]
SPRING CREEK - Frontier residential customers could receive some money back on their bill in light of a court filing by the Nevada Attorney General's Bureau of Consumer Protection. Along with the...
 
Taxpayer watchdog group challenges Waterloo broadband study [telecom]
By Tim Jamison WATERLOO - A national taxpayer watchdog organization is joining the debate over a possible city-owned broadband utility. Chip Baltimore of the Washington, D.C.-based Taxpayers...
 
CenturyLink Class Action - What Are The Allegations? [telecom]
(The website quoted is copyrighted by Zimmerman Reed LLP, Plaintiffs' Interim Co-Lead and Liaison Counsel) Numerous CenturyLink customers across the United States, as well as state attorneys general,...
 
Did Centurylink have a widespread Internet outage on 10/7? [telecom]
Accoring to the site listed, Centurylink Internet had severe problems on 10/7/2019, with reports from multiple cities in the western half of the U.S. Was there a major outage at Centurylink? If so,...
 
Rumor: Glen Post and group of investors to make bid for CTL Local [telecom]
(This is from an anonymous post at the address shown below) Just heard on a conference call of high level staff that Glen and investors are you g to make a bid on the t-d known as the Local division....
 
Inside New York City's Partnership With Israeli iPhone Hacking Company Cellebrite [telecom]
EXCLUSIVE: Inside New York City's Partnership With Israeli iPhone Hacking Company Cellebrite Documents reveal the Manhattan DA subscribes to a program that lets authorities break into iPhones in-house...
 
Service problems continue to plague many Verizon Wireless customers in San Diego [telecom]
By: Jermaine Ong SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - Many San Diego-area Verizon Wireless customers may have to wait a while longer before service issues that coincided with the launch of a new wireless service in...
 
Eastern New Mexico University phone system has outage [telecom]
PORTALES - The phone was busy last week at Eastern New Mexico University, no matter who you dialed. But nobody was talking on any of the phones. The campus phone system went out Tuesday, and wasn't...
 
Re: [telecom] Large Telecom Companies And State Attorneys General Agree On Anti-Robocall Principles
There is no excuse for any telco to not block a call where the caller ID shows up as "Not Assigned". jt -
 
10 Tips to Avoid Leaving Tracks Around the Internet [telecom]
Google and Facebook collect information about us and then sell that data to advertisers. Websites deposit invisible "cookies" onto our computers and then record where we go online. Even our own...
 
History Teletype "torn tape" message switching [telecom]
At one time Western Electric's subsidiary Teletype used to advertise for its machines. Before the days of electronic computer memory, paper tape served as a store and forward mechanism. The following...
 
The court allowed the FCC to kill net neutrality because washing machines can't make phone calls [telecom]
It's been a hard week for net neutrality supporters, as the Trump Federal Communication Commission's decision to strip neutrality rules from the internet was upheld by the Court of Appeals for the DC...