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Some Ohio residents having difficulty calling 911 [telecom]
LICKING COUNTY, OHIO - Licking County residents who have a 740-893 prefix to their landline phone numbers are currently experiencing issues dialing 911. The Licking County Emergency Management Agency...
 
Marissa Mayer's Nightmare Just Became Verizon's Reality [telecom]
Yahoo still has some skeletons in its closet. By Maya Kosoff When Marissa Mayer unceremoniously exited Yahoo this summer, she left in her wake a legacy of sorts: millions of dollars spent on expensive...
 
xkcd: Wifi vs Cellular [telecom]
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AT&T California Fiber Optic Scandal [telecom]
By Bruce Kushnik Expose: AT&T California Fiber Optic Scandal: Billions Charged for Broadband that Never Showed Up. In 1993, Pac Bell California announced it would be spending $16 billion on fiber...
 
How Hurricane Harvey Is Affecting Customers of Comcast, AT&T and Charter [telecom]
Comcast and AT&T are among the pay-TV and telecom providers in the storm's path. By Chris Nolter As President Donald Trump surveys damage from Hurricane Harvey, the full impact of the storm to local...
 
Alabama customers go after Centurylink with class-ascion lawsuit [telecom]
Written by Edward Gately The latest suit was filed by Heninger Garrison Davis on behalf of Alabama customers alleging that their plans were changed or they were charged for extra services without...
 
Uber to end controversial post-trip tracking as part of privacy drive [telecom]
Uber to end controversial post-trip tracking as part of privacy drive Uber is set to reverse a controversial decision to collect users' location information after their trip ends, Reuters reports,...
 
Would a CenturyLink-Level 3 merger affect EIS? GSA to wait and see [telecom]
Just as the General Services Administration lays the groundwork from implementing its new $50 billion telecommunications contract, there's a possibility it may have to revisit at least a portion of...
 
Here's Why You Should Dump CenturyLink from Your Portfolio [telecom]
On Aug 25, one of the leading regional wireline service providers in the United States, CenturyLink Inc. CTL, was downgraded to a Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell). Shares of the company have underperformed...
 
[telecom] NYC's police dep't about to dump 35k "smart phones"
background: A couple of years ago the NYPD, using a grant from big, make that BIG, financial settlements collected by the New York County District Attorney [a], purchased over 35,000 "smart phones"...
 
AT&T brings 500Mbps home Internet to cities outside its territory [telecom]
AT&T's G.fast available to apartment buildings in 8 major cities. Major home Internet providers in the US don't typically expand into each other's territory, but this week, AT&T said it is launching...
 
Clevelanders file FCC complaint accusing AT&T of denying high-speed internet access to poor neighborhoods [telecom]
By Eric Heisig, CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Three Cleveland women have filed an FCC complaint against AT&T, saying the telecommunications company is denying poor, black neighborhoods in Cleveland the same...
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Verizon's always-on throttling is an affront to customers and net neutrality [telecom]
Anyone who uses Verizon is now going to have a worse experience streaming video. By Nathan Ingraham Well, it was nice while it lasted. Today Verizon (the biggest carrier in the US) announced it was...
 
Verizon's New Unlimited Plans Are All Worse Than Before [telecom]
by Andrew E. Freedman Verizon released an easy-to-undersand unlimited data plan earlier this year, but get ready to be confused. The carrier has chopped its plans into three pieces tiers with...
 
Hands-on with the Note 8, Android Oreo, and Verizon [telecom]
by Andrew Marino This week on The Verge, Dieter was able to get his hands on the new Galaxy Note 8. So on The Vergecast, Nilay, Dieter, and Paul go over the first impressions of Samsung's latest...