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Despite Free Internet Offers, Some Low-Income Parents Struggle To Get Kids Online For School [telecom]
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...
 
Exploding iPhones? Not Our Fault, Apple Says [telecom]
Exploding iPhones? Not Our Fault, Apple Says By Nicole Martinelli Apple denied claims that faulty iPhones overheat and explode, saying the shattered, spattering phones that launched a government...
 
5-carrier aggregation gives AT&T network edge [telecom]
5-carrier aggregation gives AT&T network edge - RootMetrics by Bevin Fletcher AT&T delivered speed gains across 51 markets in the early part of 2020, with its wide-scale use of 5-component carrier...
 
Current and Former CenturyLink Residential and Small Business Customers May Be Eligible for a Payment from a Settlement [telecom]
A FEDERAL COURT AUTHORIZED THIS NOTICE. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FROM A LAWYER. A settlement ("Settlement") has been proposed in a class action involving customers who had an account for local or...
 
The Second Circuit Invites All The Party Plaintiffs To The Disco
by Lisa S. Yun and Shannon Petersen In Duran v. LaBoom Disco, Inc., No. 19-600-cv (2d Cir. Apr. 7, 2020), the Second Circuit joined the Ninth Circuit in expansively defining Automatic Telephone...
 
Second Circuit Decision Deepens TCPA Law Split [telecom]
by David O. Klein The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently issued a decision with far reaching Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") implications. Specifically, the...
 
Privacy Considerations When Using Smartphone Location Data To
by Sina Kazemi , J. Sébastien Gittens , Stephen D. Burns , Ruth Promislow and Michael Whitt As countries around the world continue their efforts to combat the novel coronavirus (COVID-19),...
 
Canada: Protecting Your Organization From Wire Fraud [telecom]
By Nathan Schissel, Stathy Markatos and Matthew Barnes On March 18, 2020, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre ("CACF") released a bulletin warning Canadians that fraudsters are exploiting the COVID-19...
 
Telecom Stock Roundup: AT&T & Ericsson's Q1 Earnings Match Estimates, & More [telecom]
Over the past five trading days, telecom stocks witnessed a brief uptrend followed by a relatively flat trajectory since the industry pinned hopes on a likely consumer resilience in the domestic...
 
How enterprise networking is changing with a work-at-home workforce [telecom]
By Michael Cooney U.S. Cellular, using authority granted by the Federal Communications Commission, started boosting its mobile broadband capacity in parts of six states to meet increased demand during...
 
Tell Congress to Pass the P.A.I.D. Leave Act [telecom]
Tell Congress to Pass the P.A.I.D. Leave Act (S.3513/H.R. 6442) The Communications Workers of America (CWA) is urging the House and Senate to immediately pass a bill introduced today by Senator...
 
5G in mmWave spectrum gains a bit more traction [telecom]
By Mike Dano There was a time, not so long ago, that 5G in millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum was viewed with a healthy amount of skepticism, if not outright incredulity. For example, a report in 2017...
 
Do Internet Offers For Low-Income Families Come With Strings Attached? [telecom]
For years, L.A. neighborhoods like Watts and Boyle Heights have been stuck on the wrong side of a "digital divide": few families in these low-income communities have access to computers and high-speed...
 
AT&T Provided FCC Bunk Broadband Availability Data Across 20 States [telecom]
AT&T Provided FCC Bunk Broadband Availability Data Across 20 States from the driving-blind dept By Karl Bode We've noted repeatedly that despite a lot of talk from U.S. leaders and regulators about...
 
AT&T Misses Q1 Estimates, Citing Impact Of COVID-19 [telecom]
By Bradley Lamb AT&T reported first-quarter results impaired by COVID-19, missing revenue targets, as WarnerMedia operations suffered the worst impact from the virus. Revenue came in at $ 42.8...