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Walmart cellphone plans? [telecom]
So the plethora of Walmart ads say you can keep your phone(s) and number(s) and switch to their off-brand carriers for the same networks and a lot less money. Anyone try that? Experiences? Is one...
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It's vacation time again [telecom]
It's that time of year again, when Telecom Digest readers book flights to far-away places, pack their clothes, and head out on vacation. But ... Many of the auto-response "vacation macro" features of...
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SOHO application to handle phone calls? [telecom]
Hello Someone I know would like to work part-time from her home handling phone calls from a doctor's office. To get started, she only needs a reliable phone line and an analog modem with support for...
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Re: Exploding the Phone [telecom]
Lou, [Here is] the link to the book's Web site: Regards, Fred Official web site for Phil Lapsley's book, 'Exploding The Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell'
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Number, Please! Comment Deadlines Set in Telephone Numbering Proceeding [telecom]
Posted on June 19, 2013 by FHH Law Source: Neal McLain Comment deadlines have been set in the FCC proceeding that could eventually mean serious changes in what we understand a telephone number to...
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Access Recovery Charge [telecom]
Having just received a bill in which CenturyLink (motto: "proving Qwest wasn't so bad after all") raises my Access Recovery Charge, I started to wonder. The bill says the charges are "to recover costs...
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Telegram not dead. Stop. [telecom]
Despite end of India's national telegraph service, telegraphy lives on. by Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, June 19 2013, 9:38am CST Continued: The Monitor has since posted the following clarification on...
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History--1968 telephone credit card verification [telecom]
An article in the August 1968 Computers & Automation describes using a card-dialer telephone to verify credit card transactions. (Note that in the 1970s AT&T developed a special telephone set and...
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Excellent new book about Phone Phreaks [telecom]
Here is an excellent new book that traces the history of Phone Phreaks. It is well researched and well put together. "Exploding The Phone : The untold story of the teenagers and outlaws who hacked Ma...
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Google unveils Internet beaming balloons launched into stratosphere [telecom]
By Nick Perry and Martha Mendoza | Associated Press | Jun 15, 2013 | Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish- | shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen | field in...
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India to send world's last telegram [telecom]
By Shivam Vij, Correspondent, Christian Science Monitor, June 14, 2013 fast. | New Delhi | At the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), India's state- | owned telecom company, a message emerges from a...
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Is the NSA Verizon Request Legal? [telecom]
Based On What We Know, Is The NSA Verizon Request Legal? by EYDER PERALTA June 15, 2013 6:48 AM Here's what we know about a National Security Agency program that collects vast amounts of data on the...
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Under the cloud of a spy scandal [telecom]
Under the cloud of a spy scandal, AT&T and Verizon should speak up Mitchell Schnurman Published: 15 June 2013 04:43 PM Updated: 15 June 2013 05:35 PM Maybe companies can't defy the federal government...
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Aeronautical Frequency Leaks: A Potentially Expensive Problem for Non-Cable MVPDs [telecom]
June 11, 2013 by Paul J. Feldman, Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, P.L.C. Common Law Blog | Citation issued to Florida motel serves as reminder of | possible penalties for leaky cable systems. | | If...
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End of Cable Bundle Inevitable, With or Without Aereo: CEO [telecom]
Thursday, 13 Jun 2013 By Paul Toscano, Producer, | Even if Aereo is ultimately unsuccessful, the unraveling of | the cable bundle is "inevitable," CEO Chet Kanojia told CNBC | on Thursday. | Cable...
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