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D.C. Circuit Rejects Challenge to Sunsetting of Viewability Rule [telecom]
By Harry Cole, CoomLawBlog,. December 27, 2013 | The D.C. Circuit has given the FCC and the cable industry a | belated Christmas present. It has rejected a challenge mounted | by a number of...
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BBC: 0845 and 0870 government departments warned [telecom]
Government departments have been ordered to stop using higher-rate phone lines as the contact for key services. cabinet Office guidance states it is "inappropriate" to pay high charges for such...
 
Centurylink service restored [telecom]
Kristin Buehner December 23, 2013 MASON CITY | Service was restored by noon Monday to customers of CenturyLink in the Mason City area, a company spokeswoman said. Nancy DeVinay-McNeley said service...
 
Thanks Verizon for the very late 4.3 update [telecom]
By Dan Kusnetzky for Virtually Speaking December 23, 2013 -- 13:49 GMT (05:49 PST) Summary: Unlike the tightly controlled iPhone market, Android is a bit like the wild west. Google release updates but...
 
Merry Christmas [telecom]
For those whom share the tradition, I wish you and yours the best of the holiday season and a Merry Christmas. Bill
 
Can the FCC Handle Phone Service over the Internet? [telecom]
By Mitchell Lazarus, CommLawBlog, December 22, 2013 | Regulating IP telephony will be like updating the rules of the | road from horse-and-carriage traffic to modern automobiles. | | Slowly and...
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Google Fiber brings AT&T, CenturyLink to the ftth table [telecom]
The news: Google Fiber may be a new broadband player, but its presence has driven two of the largest telcos AT&T and CenturyLink to serve up their own 1 Gbps fiber to the home (FTTH) service.
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Verizon vows to disclose more about government data requests [telecom]
Verizon vows to disclose more about government data requests By CBS/REUTERS December 20, 2013, 8: 51 AM Verizon Communications Inc. vowed to issue semi-annual reports on government requests for...
 
It's all downhill after today [telecom]
I've got good news: one minutes ago, those in the Eastern Time Zone of the U.S. passed the Winter Solstice, and that means that from this momenet until the Summer Solstice, every day will get longer....
 
Anyone, anywhere can now get a 212 area code -- for big bucks [telecom]
By Natalie O'Neill, New York Post, December 21, 2013 | Anyone from the Deep South to the West Coast can now score the | once-exclusive 212 area code. | | New York wannabes from around the country can...
 
T-Mobile 600 MHz study shows LTE can share channels with nearby V stations [telecom]
By Tammy Parker, FierceWirelessTech, December 18, 2013 | T-Mobile US says its research shows that LTE networks could | operate side by side with co-channel, broadcast TV signals | even in some of the...
 
[telecom] Target: Hack may have hit 40 million accounts
Target: Hack may have hit 40 million accounts Holiday shopping itself can be stressful enough. Now Target adds to the angst with news of a widespread theft of customers' credit and debit card data. by...
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[telecom] finally... a standardized phone charger...
This has been one of the Big Uglies in portable equipment, and while the move to "micro USB" ports has helped, there's still _lots_ of slippage. (That's _you_, Apple, we're talking about) [Reuters]...
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Viewing youth and mobile privacy through a digital policy literacy framework [telecom]
Viewing youth and mobile privacy through a digital policy literacy framework Leslie Regan Shade, Tamara Shepherd Volume 18, Number 12 2 December 2013 First Monday Abstract Digital policy literacy is a...
 
[telecom] Transaction costs, privacy, and trust: The laudable goals and ultimate failure of notice and choice to respect privacy online
Transaction costs, privacy, and trust: The laudable goals and ultimate failure of notice and choice to respect privacy online Kirsten Martin Volume 18, Number 12 2 December 2013 Abstract The goal of...