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Texting with my sister [humor]
A conversation via text message with my sister: Sister: How are you two doing? Bill: We're fine: in fact, I'm already inoculated against any new virus. Sister: There is no inoculation for this one...
 
Charter Communications finally updates its work-from-home policy [telecom]
By William Derringer Charter Communications is upgrading its work-from-home policy Thursday, adhering to countless records from workers that stated the business had actually needed them to report to...
 
OPINION: US Park Service Selling Out to Telecom Giants, Part One [telecom]
by Jimmy Tobias Last September, Jim Stanford climbed onto a big flat raft, shoved off from shore, and paddled into the swift current of the Snake River in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park. It was...
 
Workers at Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile Demand Companies Take Proactive Steps to Protect Employees and Consumers from Coronavirus [telecom]
WASHINGTON - With the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) across the country, workers at Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile, supported by the Communications Workers of America (CWA), are demanding both...
 
The coronavirus is creating an 'enormous stress test' of
By Brian Fung The United States' internet and wireless networks are coming under immense pressure to deliver reliable connectivity as schools and businesses confronting the novel coronavirus have...
 
911 lawsuit settled [telecom]
The South Dakota Department of Public Safety and its 9-1-1 Coordination Board has announced that the state has settled its civil lawsuit with Comtech Telecommunications Corporation of Wilmington,...
 
Union, consumer advocacy groups call for telecom giants to ensure internet access as coronavirus spreads [telecom]
By Chris Mills Rodrigo The Communications Workers of America (CWA) and a group of consumer advocacy groups sent letters to the country's largest providers on Tuesday asking them to do more to ensure...
 
FCC Sets Auction Schedule For 2020 [telecom]
The FCC's 2020 auction calendar is already full with three significant auctions scheduled before the end of the year. These auctions will unlock prime spectrum for 5G and other advanced spectrum...
 
OR: Phone outage in Douglas County prevents customers from dialing 911 [telecom]
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ore. - A CenturyLink phone service outage is taking place in Doulas County that is affecting approximately 674 customers in the Drain and Yoncalla areas, according to the Douglas...
 
Centurylink users in Mangham temporarily without phone service [telecom]
by: Jonathan Freeman Posted: Mar 12, 2020 / 04:03 PM CDT RICHLAND PARISH, La. - The Richland Parish Sheriff's Office and Richland Parish 9-1-1 Office has been contacted by Centurylink who stated a...
 
Re: [telecom] Keystone - Initial digit 1
These numbers starting with 1 reminds me of an experiment a friend and I did in high school (50 years ago) in the San Francisco east bay area. This is before an initial 1 indicated 10 digits followed...
 
Some mobile ad-blockers and VPNs siphoning user data, report
Generally, if someone is installing a VPN or ad-blocker on their mobile phone, they're doing it to increase their privacy. But several apps distributed by an analytics firm that hid its connection to...
 
Intel SGX is vulnerable to an unfixable flaw that can steal crypto keys and more [telecom]
Intel SGX is vulnerable to an unfixable flaw that can steal crypto keys and more Just when you thought it was secure again, Intel's digital vault falls to a new attack. By Dan Goodin For the past 26...
 
How to clean the bundle of germs that is your phone [telecom]
NEW YORK - You're washing your hands countless times a day to try to ward off the coronavirus. You should also wash that extension of your hand and breeding ground for germs - your phone. Tests done...
 
Live Coronavirus Map Used to Spread Malware [telecom]
Cybercriminals constantly latch on to news items that captivate the public's attention, but usually they do so by sensationalizing the topic or spreading misinformation about it. Recently, however,...