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CenturyLink officially completes acquisition of Level 3 [telecom]
By Matthew Segura MONROE, La. (KNOE) - CenturyLink has officially taken over Level 3 Communications, making it a part of CenturyLink. They offered the following website to inform people about the...
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Verizon Presses Regulators To Block State Privacy Laws [telecom]
by Wendy Davis Verizon is urging the Federal Communications Commission to prohibit individual states or towns from moving forward with proposed new broadband regulations, including laws aimed at...
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Inside Verizon Wireless' Hurricane Playbook [telecom]
To maintain phone service, the chief network officer deploys drones, boats and a lot of fuel By Henry Williams Nicola Palmer, chief network officer at Verizon Wireless, began preparing for this year's...
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Best Buy Defends Charging $100 Extra for iPhone X [telecom]
It's practically impossible to find discounts on newly launched Apple phones. But imagine being charged more than even Apple's listed price on a new iPhone. You won't have to imagine that if you go...
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Google responds to Pixel 2 XL screen burn-in and color concerns with upcoming software updates, 2-year warranty [telecom]
Google responds to Pixel 2 XL screen burn-in and color concerns with upcoming software updates, 2-year warranty This past Sunday, Google let us know that it was "actively inves- tigating" reports of...
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[telecom] AT&T, CenturyLink say they're safe from Krack Wi-Fi vulnerability
by Sean Buckley AT&T and CenturyLink have not reported that any of their broadband customers have been affected by the KRACK (or Key Reinstallation Attack) Wi-Fi vulnerability that was recently...
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[telecom] Verizon Will Remove Video Throttling From Plans for an Extra $10 Per Month
By Ryan Whitwam In past years, "unlimited" mobile data actually meant unlimited. Today, there are myriad limits placed on the so-called unlimited plans sold by Verizon, T-Mobile, and others. For...
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AT&T Loses Record 385,000 Traditional Pay-TV Subscribers [telecom]
AT&T Loses Record 385,000 Traditional Pay-TV Subscribers in Q3, Posts Gains for DirecTV Now AT&T's DirecTV and U-verse TV businesses were hammered in the third quarter of 2017, while the telco's...
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AT&T: You Were Warned [telecom]
Summary * AT&T missed Q3 analyst estimates. * The company is losing key subscribers on multiple fronts. * The lack of benefits from the DirecTV merger should raise red flags concerning Time Warner....
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Is Centurylink's New Internet Deal Too Good To Be True? [telecom]
Most of us see or hear dozens of ads each day, but one appears to really be grabbing people's attention. That's because it offers you "price for life" internet from CenturyLink, which on the surface...
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The FCC plans to roll back some of its biggest rules against media consolidation [telecom]
The FCC plans to roll back some of its biggest rules against media consolidation The announcement comes a day after the FCC voted to eliminate a 77-year-old rule on broadcasters.
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FCC Proposes Market-Based Changes to Toll Free Number Administration [telecom]
By Keenan Adamchak, CommLawBlog, Oct 24, 2017 On Sept. 28, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that seeks to permit the assignment of toll free...
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History--Western Union's cellular service, 1984 [telecom]
In 1984, the Western Union Telegraph Company got into the cellular mobile phone business. Below is a link to an ad they ran in "New York" magazine. Unfortunately, at that time W/U was losing serious...
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CenturyLink phone service restored after outage in Carteret Co. [telecom]
By Jason O. Boyd A CenturyLink outage in Carteret County (NC) is impacting telephone use Thursday (Oct 19) afternoon, according to the Cartetet County Sheriff's Office. Nick Wilson, Public Information...
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AT&T's Earnings Call to Shed Light on Cord Cutting, Status of Time Warner Deal [telecom]
The telecom has already warned about declining video subscribers and recently pushed out the termination date for the Time Warner deal. Investors will also listen for details about AT&T's video...
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