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CenturyLink sounds off on special access debate, wants cable operators included as competition [telecom]
By Samantha Bookman Incumbent provider CenturyLink said it wants to work with the Federal Communications Commission on its proposed changes to special access pricing, but has a few opinions on...
 
AT&T, CenturyLink: Special-Access Proposal Data Is 'Irretrievably Flawed' [telecom]
An expert's report and other analyses submitted in a Federal Communications Commission record were based on flawed data that understated offerings of Ethernet cable service, according to AT&T,...
 
Cyber Attacks Worry AT&T [telecom]
The biggest ISP globally, AT&T said its network was persistently being attacked, with 30bn-and-more malicious scans occurring daily. According to Vice-President for Security Solutions Jason Porter at...
 
Central Texas AT&T service restored after outage [telecom]
by Gary Dinges AT&T customers in parts of Central Texas found themselves without cellular, cable TV and Internet service Friday afternoon after a fiber-optic line was cut. On social media, some...
 
MECA, AT&T reach settlement on overpayments [telecom]
By Ray King The Metropolitan Emergency Communications Association (MECA) and AT&T have reached an agreement on a settlement to claims that the company overpaid MECA for about five years. During a...
 
Appeals court tosses NLRB ruling in union dispute with Verizon [telecom]
By Lydia Wheeler The nation's second most powerful court on Tuesday threw out a ruling from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in a case challenging whether Verizon employees have the right to...
 
Comcast accused of union-busting tactics [telecom]
A report in the Philadelphia Inquirer had accusations that Comcast employed union-busting tactics. While Comcast has 250 union employees in the Philadelphia area, it also relies on non-union...
 
[telecom] Re: Copy of "Off The Hook" broadcast available
Interested parties can download a 53MB mp3 file of last night's one-hour live remote radio broadcast from The Telephone Museum in Ellsworth, Maine. Museum curators played live sounds from the museum's...
 
AT&T enhances 1 Gbps fiber-based broadband reach in 10 markets [telecom]
AT&T enhances 1 Gbps fiber-based broadband reach in 10 markets including Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles By Sean Buckley, FierceTelecom, June 14, 2016 AT&T isn't letting up on its 1 Gbps fiber-based...
 
Are telephone surveys statistically valid? [telecom]
With the coming of the election season, I've been bombarded with telephone survey calls on my landline. No sooner than the primary finished they already started on the fall election. Surveyors...
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Pay-TV industry reacts as court upholds FCC's net neutrality rules [telecom]
By Ben Munson, FierceCable, June 14, 2016 A D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today voted to uphold the sweeping net neutrality rules proposed by the FCC. The decision drew quick response from the pay-TV...
 
History - old telephone directories available on-line from Ancestry [telecom]
The history website, offers old city directories as an aid to research. Some of the directories are old city phone books. Many public libraries have ancestry available to the public.
 
Court Upholds FCC's Net Neutrality Rules [telecom]
By John Eggerton, B&C, 6/14/2016 In a big victory for the FCC, the Obama Administration and FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has...
 
[telecom] Live radio broadcast from The Telephone Museum in Ellsworth, Maine, Weds 6/15/2016, 7-8PM ET
Telecom Digest readers might find this week's edition of Off The Hook interesting. It will air live on WBAI-FM 99.5 MHz in NYC 7-8 PM from atop the Empire State Building, and will stream live audio...
 
Federal Court allows Police Warrantless Access to Cell Phone Location Data [telecom]
by Nicholas Lavino (CN) - Police do not need a warrant to acquire cellphone-location data from wireless companies, the en banc Fourth Circuit ruled Monday, dealing a blow to privacy rights. The full...