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Samsung's SIM snafu may have nudged some Sprint Galaxy S9 owners toward Verizon [telecom]
By Mark Davis Friday's launch of the newest Galaxy model from Samsung included a snafu that may have steered some Sprint customers toward rival Verizon. The mix up affected an undisclosed number of...
 
CenturyLink Gets Justice Dept OK on Sale of Level 3 Network Assets in Albuquerque [telecom]
By Anna Forrester TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 16, 2018 - CenturyLink has secured initial clearance to sell certain Albuquerque, New Mexico-based fiber network assets of recently acquired Level 3...
 
D.C. Circuit rejects FCC attempt to expand TCPA protections
Author(s): Dan Deane, Leah Threatte Bojnowski A recent D.C. Circuit ruling in a TCPA "junk fax" case involving unsolicited faxes narrows the scope of the Act's "opt out" requirements and sends a...
 
Colt, Verizon Take Giant Leap for Cross-Carrier Automation [telecom]
The demonstration was as smooth and uneventful as anyone could have hoped. A vast screen showed two video streams of the same footage, one stuttering and fuzzy. Using a separate monitor and PC, a...
 
Here's what you need to know about the U.S. lawsuit against the AT&T-Time Warner merger [telecom]
The Trump administration has sued to block AT&T's $85 billion takeover of CNN-owned Time Warner. The trial starts March 21. Here's what you need to know. By Edmund Lee AT&T and Time Warner plan to...
 
Following Sprint layoff announcement, Kansas agencies arrange tech job fair [telecom]
Following Sprint layoff announcement, Kansas agencies arrange tech job fair in Lenexa Jay Senter Following the announcement that Sprint would be laying off hundreds of employees in the coming weeks,...
 
Shenandoah Telecommunications' (SHEN) CEO Christopher French on Q4 2017 Results [telecom]
Jennifer Belodeau: Good morning and thank you for joining us. The purpose of today's call is to review Shentel's results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2017. Our results were announced in...
 
New LTE study shows T-Mobile and Verizon are the only networks that matter any more [telecom]
By Chris Mills For the last decade, the cell industry was ruled by a duopoly. Verizon and AT&T were the biggest networks with the most subscribers and best coverage, and it wasn't even close. But in...
 
Judge rules for AT&T on key part of Time Warner deal defense [telecom]
by Jessica Schneider and Hadas Gold A federal judge has rejected a Justice Department motion to limit evidence AT&T can present in its defense of its proposed purchase of Time Warner, which is set to...
 
Clarksburg Police respond to CWA strike-related incident Friday [telecom]
by Charles Young CLARKSBURG - The Clarksburg Police Department responded to reports of a disturbance outside the U.S. Cellular location on Emily Drive Friday morning involving striking Communications...
 
Verizon Wireless Closing a Third of US Call Centers, Cutting Customer Service Jobs [telecom]
WASHINGTON, DC -- Verizon Wireless announced plans last month to close six call center locations across the country, which will result in elimination of approximately 3,000 customer service jobs. Only...
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Verizon Forced to Repair Broadband Infrastructure It Has Literally Let Fall Apart [telecom]
A new settlement requires Verizon to replace bad cable, defective equipment, and faulty back-up batteries - and to take down 64,000 double telephone poles or pole stumps. By Karl Bode A half-decade...
 
Job security: Frontier Communications workers continue with strike [telecom]
By Charles Boothe BLUEFIELD - Job security is the main issue of a continued strike involving Frontier Communications workers, and about 30 of those jobs that may be at risk could be in Bluefield....
 
911 service restored in Snoqualmie Pass, WA area after outage [telecom]
Officials with the the Kittitas County (WA) Sheriff's Office say 911 service has been restored in the Snoqualmie Pass area Monday night. Sgt. Ryan Abbott of the King County Sheriff's Office told KIRO...
 
My coverage is bigger than yours: Verizon spats with AT&T over the FirstNet responders' network [telecom]
Back in 2017, AT&T won a quarter-century contract from FirstNet to roll out and maintain a dedicated LTE network that will exclusively serve the communication needs of "first responders" like police...