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Re: US consumer groups call on FCC, Congress to address nation's
Hopefully something will come out of this. The system is indeed very fragile and I don't think people realize it. In this newsgroup we see numerous articles of serious outages. Very troubling. Sadly,...
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History trans-Atlantic cable [telecom]
The Bell System opened a voice cable across the Atlantic in the mid 1950s. This was a major improvement since the radio was unreliable and inadequate. Here are some ads for the cable: (two pages) (two...
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US consumer groups call on FCC, Congress to address nation's
US consumer group Public Knowledge said it joined 23 other public interest, civil rights, tribal, and rural advocacy groups, urging the FCC to address public safety concerns about the state of the...
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Baxter County, AR: A letter to the editor [telecom]
Wants to hang up with CenturyLink I have had it! I am not the one who writes - that would be my sweet dad, Shirrell Hipp, who passed away last year. But I am sick of these huge companies who do what...
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Mich. Telecom Co.'s Accused Of $1M In Switching Overages [telecom]
Law360 (December 3, 2019, 7:09 PM EST) -- Michigan telecom companies Peninsula Fiber Network and Alpha Connect, along with several local exchange carriers, overcharged CenturyLink Communications and...
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Cook County, MN says it has 911 redundancy now [telecom]
COOK COUNTRY, MINNESOTA December 6, 2010 (LSN) Much of government work is transactional, process oriented and somedays down right mundane. But within this structured framework there is always the...
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Re: Idaho: Bannock County Sheriff's Office phone system working
The Automatic Electric Company, a competitor to Western Electric, made emergency telephone systems. Here is a 1961 ad by them. https://archive.org/details/the-saturday-evening-post-1961-03-04/page/n84
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Re: 37 state AGs accuse CenturyLink of 'weaponizing' class
Many of the areas served by Century Link were once served by the independent telephone companies, one of which was GTE. Here is an ad by them:...
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FCC tries to bury finding that Verizon and T-Mobile exaggerated
FCC buries investigation's finding in 5G press release, won't punish carriers. By Jon Brodkin Verizon, T-Mobile, and US Cellular exaggerated their 4G coverage in official filings to the Federal...
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History Xerox telecopier fax 1972 [telecom]
While Western Union offered facsimile transmissions for several decades, they required dedicated lines and special paper ("teledeltos"). Xerox introduced a plain paper fax using xerography principles....
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FCC Finds T-Mobile, Verizon, US Cellular Overstated Rural
The coverage maps are crucial because they help the FCC determine where the commission allocates government subsidies to fund broadband projects. Now the FCC has to figure out how to ensure the...
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Personal information from thousands of Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile customers was accidentally left exposed [telecom]
Personal information from thousands of Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile customers was accidentally left exposed - here's how to check if you were affected By Aaron Holmes Hundreds of thousands of...
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Scalise: Schiff 'spying' on Nunes with call records [telecom]
by Susan Ferrechio House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff spied on the top Republican on his panel by obtaining his phone records and publishing them in an impeachment report, Minority Whip...
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Robocall crackdown sails through House [telecom]
Politico reported that A sweeping 417-3 House vote Wednesday left Congress on the verge of passing legislation aimed at knocking back the billions of unwanted automated phone calls that torment...
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We Were 'Required By Law' To Turn Over Call Records To Congress, AT&T Says[telecom]
By Matt Shuham Phone records provided by AT&T to the House impeachment inquiry provided some of the most concrete evidence yet of the behind- the-scenes machinery that fueled President Donald Trump's...
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