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States Made It Harder to Get Jobless Benefits. Now That's Hard to
States Made It Harder to Get Jobless Benefits. Now That's Hard to Undo. By Emily Badger and Alicia Parlapiano Systems that were devised to treat each case as potentially fraudulent are now rushing to...
 
National parks balancing demands for cell service, silence [telecom]
PHOENIX - (AP) - Musetta Vander has been to several of the most iconic national parks and landscapes in the U.S., capturing herself doing a yoga pose among the Joshua trees, driving on a tree-lined...
 
AT&T, T-Mobile butt heads with Comcast, Wi-Fi in 5.9 GHz melee [telecom]
by Monica Alleven The 5.9 GHz band, aka "the mess," is at the center of several fights as the FCC considers rejiggering the band for Wi-Fi after years of the spectrum laying mostly fallow.
 
Where Does AT&T Go From Here? [telecom]
by Wayne Friedman Where does AT&T -- and other diversified communications/media companies -- go in future? Randall Stephenson's departure as CEO of AT&T, after recent years of big entertainment/TV...
 
Verizon Outage Last Night: No cell service & users couldn't make calls at many locations [telecom]
According to downdetector, the problem appears to have been resolved - Mod - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - by Ankit kumar Verizon, the company that offers mobile and landline communications services is...
 
OPNFV evolves and hitches its wagon to Common NFVi Telco Taskforce [telecom]
by Mike Robuck Birthday plans on are hold for the Common NFVi Telco Taskforce (CNTT) due to the coronavirus shutting down conferences. CNTT got off the ground almost exactly a year ago at the Open...
 
Global internet outages reach new high [telecom]
By Melanie Mingas Internet outages around the world reached new record levels last week, despite relatively strong performance from global networks during the first weeks of Covid-19 lockdowns. The...
 
Frontier Communications Declares Bankruptcy; Documents Show Company Spent Millions to Retain Customers [telecom]
Frontier Communications filed for bankruptcy reorganization protection this week with more than $10 billion in debts and departing customers, despite retention efforts that cost the company more than...
 
Former Moore cell phone shop employee uncovers massive nationwide security breach [telecom]
by: Austin Breasette MOORE, Okla. (KFOR) - Thousands of employees' personal information was sent right to a former Prime Communications employee's email. "I've never experienced anything like this...
 
"We Take Down the Network Four Times a Year" [telecom]
This post on Reddit may explain some things ... (mod) ------------------ We take down the network 4 times a year. Does your enterprise also batch up disruptive changes like this? Like the title says,...
 
Verizon Bags More 4G Airwaves From Investors [telecom]
Investment groups' grips on critical 4G spectrum has started to loosen in the COVID crisis. Here's where your cell phone service will improve. By Sascha Segan Verizon will improve its 4G capacity in...
 
Verizon sheds subscribers amidst coronavirus crisis [telecom]
Verizon sheds subscribers amidst coronavirus crisis By Steve McCaskill Verizon has updated its guidance due to the "unprecedented magnitude of current conditions" that saw it lose 68,000 subscribers...
 
CenturyLink takes back cable boxes, zeroes out bill [telecom]
By Chris Rickert enturyLink's cable TV service was evicted from Sue Kies' home - a victim, Kies said, of its own shifting price structure. The cable TV boxes remained on as squatters - abandoned by a...
 
[telecom] Despite Free Internet Offers, Some Low-Income Parents Struggle To Get Kids Online For School (Corrected URL)
By Kyle Stokes Since the coronavirus struck, Tamara Solis has called four different companies offering "free" internet service. She didn't have internet at home, and her children, ages 8 and 10, need...
 
Internet service in Western Colorado was so terrible that towns and counties built their own telecom [telecom]
By Tamara Chuang Internet outages became a distant memory this month as a good chunk of Western Colorado turned on a new broadband system. But this wasn't built by a typical telecom. It took a band of...