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5G Explainer: There Will Be Five 'Flavors' [telecom]
By Mark Lowenstein If you're in the telecom/wireless space, you've no doubt been asked by tech industry colleagues, or even by curious friends and family, about 5G: What is it, how will it be...
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AT&T working to fix statewide outage of landline 911 calls [telecom]
911 dispatch centers across Tennessee may be experiencing outages after an issue with AT&T. According to Knox County emergency dispatch, they were informed by AT&T a cut fiber cable is causing outages...
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Morton Bahr Dies at 93; Led Communications Workers Into Digital Age [telecom]
As head of the C.W.A. for 20 years, he helped workers survive technological changes and corporate revamping that threatened thousands of jobs. As head of the C.W.A. for 20 years, he helped workers...
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Robocall blocking apps caught sending your private data without permission [telecom]
By Zack Whittaker Robocall-blocking apps promise to rid your life of spoofed and spam phone calls. But are they as trustworthy as they claim to be? One security researcher said many of these apps can...
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Apple's iPhone FaceID Hacked In Less Than 120 Seconds [telecom]
Apple's iPhone FaceID Hacked In Less Than 120 Seconds Security researchers attending the annual Black Hat hacker convention in Las Vegas have managed to bypass the iPhone FaceID user authentication in...
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Net Neutrality Still Unresolved After 11 Year of Blogging About It [telecom]
by Peter Vogel On August 1, 2008 I posted my first blog about Net Neutrality entitled "Proposed Net Neutrality Bill in the US Congress," and as of today Net Neutrality is still a hotly contested...
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CWA and AT&T Southwest extend contract for a week [telecom]
Hundreds of CWA members at AT&T Southeast from across District 3 rallied outside the company's headquarters in Atlanta on Saturday to show that they're ready to do whatever it takes to get a fair...
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Midwest CWA members ratify four-year agreement [telecom]
This week, CWA members in the Midwest and at AT&T's national Legacy T unit voted to ratify four-year agreements covering 14,000 workers. The new agreements provide wage increases of 10.5% over the...
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CWA Raises Strike Pay Levels [telecom]
Aug 8, 2019 - CWA Raises Strike Pay Levels At the 2019 CWA Convention in Las Vegas last week, CWA's Defense Fund Oversight Committee and the Executive Board jointly and unanimously agreed to increase...
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FCC finally gets around to denying net neutrality complaint against Verizon
Pai's FCC temporarily forgot about July 2016 complaint against Verizon. By Jon Brodkin The Federal Communications Commission has finally gotten around to denying a net neutrality complaint filed...
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Verizon: 5G speeds on low-spectrum bands will be more like “good 4Gâ€
5G is for all frequencies, but it won't be much different from 4G on low bands. By Jon Brodkin The massive hype around 5G has focused on speed improvements expected on millimeter-wave spectrum, which...
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CenturyLink clears blue-stake backlog but faces $115K fine [telecom]
By David Wichner Arizona telecommunications provider CenturyLink says it has caught up with its backlog of requests to mark its underground lines, but it faces a state fine for failing to meet...
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Arkansas: Downed line causes traffic problems in Clay County [telecom]
CORNING, Ark. (KAIT) - A downed line in Clay County caused major traffic problems on U.S. Highway 67/62 in Corning. The truck hit a power pole dropping a fiber optic line across the highway. Crews...
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Brief: Separating the Fact from Fiction
Brief: Separating the Fact from Fiction Attorney General Barr is Wrong About Encryption By: Andi Wilson Thompson *This piece is supported by Access Now, Center for Democracy & Technology, Electronic...
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Revealed: Microsoft Contractors Are Listening to Some Skype Calls
Documents, screenshots, and audio obtained by Motherboard show that humans listen to Skype calls made using the app's translation function. By Joseph Cox Contractors working for Microsoft are...
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