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2-month, 5-letter quest to correct TV bill ends in one phone call [telecom]
By Chris Rickert What Kathy and Terry Edwards didn't have was a "security pass code." What they did have was proof - and the address for SOS. The Edwardses, of Friendship, wrote in early December to...
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Axios: Amid Stalled H1B Visa Reform, AT&T Ships Jobs Out [telecom]
By Eric Mack AT&T is forcing American workers to train their replacements, be it foreigners through an outsourcing partner or cheaper domestic workers, according to Axios.
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Pieces of the Past: Residents prepared for Y2K mania, survived [telecom]
Editor's Note Pieces of the Past is a weekly history column that takes a look at previous stories covered by the Bristol Herald Courier. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -...
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Omaha: Frustration over outages at 911 call centers [telecom]
Outages that are keeping you from getting through to 911 call centers across Nebraska are preventable, according to Nebraska Public Service Commissioner Crystal Rhoades. By Chinh Doan OMAHA, Neb. -...
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Charleston County sues 19 phone companies for potentially
By Andrew Knapp Charleston County sued nearly two dozen telephone companies, alleging that they have failed to bill businesses for 911 services and send the millions of dollars in proceeds to its...
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Phone carriers pay SC counties more than $2.3 million to settle
By Andrew Brown and Conner Mitchell Some of South Carolina's largest telecommunications businesses have agreed to pay four local governments more than $2.3 million to end several lawsuits related to...
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CenturyLink to pay nearly $8.5 million to Colorado and customers for 'hidden fees' and overbilling [telecom]
By Tony Keith DENVER (KKTV) - Colorado's attorney general announced on Thursday CenturyLink will pay more than $8 million to the state and some customers for "unfairly and deceptively charging hidden...
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[Telecom] Re: History trans-Atlantic cable
Nice! Around 1970, a friend worked for Western Electric at the underground cable termination in San Luis Obispo CA. A coaxial cable to Hawaii landed there. They had vacuum tube repeaters on the cable....
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[Telecom] Re: The FCC's Reassigned Number Database
I really don't think this will do much. The calls I get "from social security about my account being suspended" or "from the Visa/Mastercard alert system" are not calls from reassigned numbers (and...
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The FCC's Reassigned Number Database [telecom]
On December 12, 2018, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") adopted a new rule to establish a reassigned number database. The database is intended to both enable callers to verify the status...
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Verizon Outages Reported Nationwide [telecom]
Verizon Outages Reported Nationwide Users reported widespread disruptions as they tried to make outgoing calls and text. The company said it had fixed a problem involving long-distance calls to...
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Trolls turned 911 into a weapon. Now cops are fighting back [telecom]
Trolls turned 911 into a weapon. Now cops are fighting back Once viewed as a prank, police are now treating 'swatting' as a serious crime that wastes city resources and puts targets' lives at risk.
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[telecom] NANPA N11 code expansion
Not at all. 611 (which is still listed there as repair service) was taken away, at least from major carriers, 30+ years ago as being unfair to CLECs. It is mostly unused.
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Ringback code? [telecom]
For many years the telco's supported a ringback code so as to test a telephone's ringer and the line. The code changed over time. In recent years it was 113+4d (the 4 digits of the phone number). One...
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Canada: The CRTC Imposes New Obligation On Telecommunications Service Providers To Combat Nuisance Calls [telecom]
Canada's telecommunications regulator has announced that telecom- munications service providers (TSPs) providing voice telecommuni- cations services in Canada must implement a new framework to...
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