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Let's Commiserate About Verizon [telecom]
The Opinion Pages | LETTERS To the Editor: Re "On Hold With Verizon," by Delia Ephron (Op-Ed, Aug. 20): When are we going to realize that telecommunications companies have gotten too big and arrogant,...
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Verizon Toys With Risky App Revenue Plan [telecom]
Verizon Toys With Risky App Revenue Plan By David Jones Verizon's reported consideration of a plan to preinstall mobile apps from major retailers and financial firms on users' smartphones has drawn...
 
Verizon sues Appleton, WI over cell tower [telecom]
By Madeleine Behr APPLETON - Verizon Wireless has sued the city after the Appleton Common Council rejected the company's bid for a cell tower permit in July. "The basis for the Common Council's denial...
 
T-Mobile fourth in latest RootMetrics report [telecom]
T-Mobile shows improvements in new RootMetrics report, but finishes fourth overall. By Alex Wagner RootMetrics today published its Mobile Network Performance in the U.S. report for the first half of...
 
Should You Charge Your Phone Overnight? [telecom]
Leaving your phone plugged in when its battery is already fully charged shouldn't be bad for it. Except that the act of charging can itself hurt our phones. Leaving your phone plugged in when its...
 
Old London Telephone Exchange Names [telecom]
[snip] Back in the 60s I lived in Evanston and worked in Chicago. Even at that late date I occasionally noticed 3L+4D numbers on old signs or in publications. - UNIversity, in Evanston, for...
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A Distracted-Driving Ban in New Jersey? [telecom]
A Distracted-Driving Ban in New Jersey? Some Say It Threatens a Way of Life A bill that could fine distracted drivers as much as $800 has led to an outcry among residents for whom driving is more a...
 
Sinclair embarks on "Broadcast TV Liberation" tour [telecom]
Sinclair embarks on 'Broadcast TV Liberation Tour,' hands out $1M in free antennas By Daniel Frankel, FierceCable, Aug 16, 2016 After a busy summer for Sinclair, during which it was fined by the FCC...
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Re: Old London Telephone Exchange Names [telecom]
This is a reply to a very interesting post of more than 10 years ago. I got interested in this when I spotted an old advertisement painted on the side of a building quoting a Macaulay phone number....
 
CenturyLink hints VoIP could be part of broadband bundle [telecom]
by Sean Buckley CenturyLink has a long legacy of delivering traditional POTS voice services, but the service provider sees an opportunity to enhance its broadband subscriber base with consumer VoIP....
 
AT&T customers experience service outage across Oklahoma [telecom]
By KFOR-TV and K. Querry OKLAHOMA CITY - For the second straight day, customers in Oklahoma City have been left holding the phone. On Sunday, several AT&T customers couldn't make phone calls or send...
 
AT&T and Verizon to Lead Charge in FCC Wireless Spectrum Auction [telecom]
TV stations have the chance to cash out their broadcast licenses in a groundbreaking auction. By Chris Nolter AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Comcast, Dish, and others start bidding Tuesday for the most...
 
Arianna Huffington and Verizon Were Never Going to Be Easy Fit [telecom]
Arianna Huffington's outsized personality was never going to fit easily into Verizon, but her departure from The Huffington Post doesn't minimize her impact on journalism and the Internet. by Leon...
 
AT&T service intermitted across metro Baton Rouge [telecom]
AT&T service intermitted across metro Baton Rouge as crews work to fix problem by WAFB Staff BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Many people with AT&T cell phones woke up Sunday morning to no cellular service....
 
Jefferies Group Analysts Reduce Earnings Estimates for CenturyLink Inc. [telecom]
Posted by Eileen French CenturyLink Inc. - Equities research analysts at Jefferies Group cut their Q3 2016 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for CenturyLink in a note issued to investors on Thursday....