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Verizon Pain From Strike Seen Growing; Wells Fargo Cuts Estimates [telecom]
By REINHARDT KRAUSE Verizon Communications is starting to feel the pain from the ongoing strike by nearly 40,000 wireline workers, according to Wells Fargo, which on Friday lowered its Q2 and...
 
Verizon strikers denounce federal mediation and CWA news blackout [telecom]
By Steve Light and Alan Whyte A World Socialist Web Site Verizon Strike Newsletter reporting team spoke to striking Verizon workers on the picket line in New York City and Virginia. Workers expressed...
 
Hold Onto Your Hats: North American Pay TV Forecast Is Stormy [telecom]
By Laura Hamilton, CED, 05/20/2016 North American pay TV revenues are predicted to fall by $13.5 billion between 2015 and 2021, according to Research and Markets' new "Digital TV World Revenue...
 
Why I'm on strike against Verizon [telecom]
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam is baffled. Recently, he walked up to a picket line and told striking workers, "This makes no sense to anybody. To be honest, I'm not sure why you're out here." Well, it...
 
Growing anger amoung Verizon strikers [telecom]
A sellout contract is being prepared by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) as the strike by 40,000 Verizon workers on the East...
 
AT&T Lobbyists Fail to Block Competition in Missouri [telecom]
by Karl Bode One of the major reasons that AT&T is imposing usage caps next week (May 23) is because the company continues to face limited broadband competition. And the company faces limited...
 
Who's "overpaid" at Verizon? [telecom]
By Alan Maass PITY THE poor Verizon executives. They're dealing with a strike by union workers who as individuals earn several times more in a year than the median income for a whole household--but...
 
CWA agrees to federal mediator, prepares sellout of Verizon strike [telecom]
By Samuel Davidson After telling striking workers for weeks that it would not accede to Verizon's demands for a federal mediator, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) agreed to mediation...
 
Lawmakers slam Frontier for bad phone and Internet service [telecom]
By Meg James Frontier Communications said Wednesday that within the next 10 days it should resolve the backlog of phone and Internet service problems that cropped up during the company's tumultuous...
 
An Unneighborly Building That Hums With Lifesaving Capacity [telecom]
By David W. Dunlap From its extraterrestrial presence to its security-state name, PSAC II, New York's new emergency answering center, is not neighborly. But you'll be glad it's there. Yet it may save...
 
Switchboard BD-72 connections to the PSTN [telecom]
If you're familiar with the Army surplus switchboard type BD-72, I need your help. I know someone who wants to connect one of these switchboards to the PSTN; i.e., to have a dial tone on one of the...
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Verizon striker run down as New York cops protect scabs [telecom]
By Sandy English On Monday afternoon, a van carrying strikebreakers hit a Verizon worker picketing in front of City View Inn on Greenpoint Ave. in Long Island City, a neighborhood in New York City's...
 
Legislatures seek limits on phone-tracking technology [telecom]
Legislatures seek limits on phone-tracking technology Springfield - Law enforcement departments' powerful devices that mimic cell towers and track phone locations are raising privacy concerns and...
 
India Mandates All Cell Phones Have "Panic Button" for Women [telecom]
[press writeup from a women's issues group] India Mandates All Cell Phones Have "Panic Button" for Women The occurrence of rape in India is pervasive. The country averages one rape every four hours,...
 
Verizon workers' union wants investigation of forced fiber upgrades [telecom]
Verizon workers' union wants investigation of forced fiber upgrades Verizon calls complaint "ridiculous," [and says it is] just a negotiating tactic during strike. by Jon Brodkin A union representing...