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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Verizon Strike Update: Day 22 [telecom]
Verizon Strike Update: Day 22, Bargaining Impasse, 'Day Of Action' Planned By ERIC KIEFER May 4, 2016 - Almost a week has passed since Verizon made its "final offer" to almost 40,000 striking workers...
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New magnet to control Dirac fermions [telecom]
On the principle that anything new related to semiconductors is, sooner or later, of interest to telecom, I offer this link to recent work on achieving a bulk half-integer Quantum Hall effect:...
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Huawei offering Spanish Telefonica 100+ Gbps data [telecom]
According to a recent Ziff-Davis article by Corinne Reichert, , More in the article. Makes old SNET territory in New England look positively data-backwater-ish, with top data speeds, near me, of 750...
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Verizon: Network sabotage during strike disrupted thousands of customers [telecom]
Verizon says its network has suffered 57 incidents of vandalism in seven states in the two weeks since 36,000 workers went on strike. The "incidents of sabotage," mostly involving the severing of...
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SeVerizon blames strikers for service outages [telecom]
Verizon Reports Sabotage of Network, Implicating Striking Workers APRIL 30, 2016 Service outages impacted thousands of customers - but unions say Verizon is to blame. As it entered the third week of...
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The Verizon Strike is About More Than Dollars and Cents [telecom]
The Verizon Strike Is About More Than Dollars And Cents The real fight is over union jobs, period. By Dave Jamieson Labor Reporter, The Huffington Post On Thursday morning, Eddie Blackburn, a Verizon...
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Claude Shannon [telecom]
Today, April 30, 1916, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Claude Shannon, an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory"....
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Comcast Raising Ceiling for Broadband Data Trials to 1 Terabyte [telecom]
By Jeff Baumgartner, MultiChannel News, 4/27/2016 Comcast's controversial trial of usage-based broadband policies in select markets is going up a notch. The operator announced in this blog post...
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Will the FCC Stop Verizon & AT&T’s Manipulation o f Financial Accounting & Special Access (BDS) Overcharges? [telecom]
By Bruce Kushnick On April 28th, 2016, the FCC started the process to take actions to fix the broken $40 billion special access market, now called "Broadband Data Services" (BDS). As we discussed in...
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DOes The Verizon Strike Signal A Resurgence Of Labor? [telecom]
BY Arne L. Kalleberg Opinion The ongoing strike by nearly 40,000 Verizon workers - the largest work stoppage in the United States in recent years - is a bold fight against the kind of strategies that...
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Verizon offers union its 'last, best and final offer' [telecom]
In a statement released Thursday, Verizon said that it had met with union leaders and presented them with a contract after more than 10 months of negotiation. The news comes more than two weeks after...
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Nashville Gets Its Google Fiber [telecom]
By Laura Hamilton, CED, 04/28/2016 Nashville's been wondering where exactly Google Fiber was going to launch in the city, and yesterday got the news that the 1 Gbps service is available in four luxury...
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