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AT&T Reports More Job Cuts, Massive Stock Buyback Plan [telecom]
October 31, 2019 As part of this week's quarterly earnings report, AT&T revealed that it has cut employment by 5,950 jobs during the third quarter of 2019, bringing the total cuts at AT&T since the...
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Internet outage causes delays at KCI, affects 911 service in central Missouri [telecom]
October 28, 2019: Airport says internet restored at 3 p.m. By Bianca Beltrá KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Internet outage caused problems for travelers at Kansas City International Airport. CenturyLink said...
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CenturyLink Data Exposed to Public [telecom]
by Anna Mulamba Someone forgot to close the figurative "door." A third-party vendor affiliated with CenturyLink misconfigured a MongoDB database leaving it open and accessible to the public for about...
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Spectrum says services fully restored [telecom]
By Caleb Loehrer LIHUE - Kauai got its regular internet, phone and cable TV back Monday night, but exactly what went wrong with the undersea fiber optic cable connecting the island to Oahu and the...
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Centurylink outage caused staffing, security issues at Cole Co. jail [telecom]
Line cut in Kansas City during sign installation By Barry Mangold COLUMBIA, Mo. - A widespread phone and internet outage, stemming from construction work in Kansas City, caused statewide issues...
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Comcast fights Google's encrypted-DNS plan but promises not to
By Jon Brodkin Comcast has gone on the record to say that it does not track its broadband users' Web browsing histories, even though the company is lobbying against a Google plan that could make it...
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FCC plans Huawei/ZTE ban, may require ripping out existing network gear [telecom]
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai is moving ahead with a ban on equipment from Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE in US-funded telecom projects. The FCC will vote on Pai's proposal at...
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NWS New York phone lines down - Please use alternate means of contact [telecom]
Hi everyone, Unfortunately we are having VOIP phone issues. We cannot receive or make any calls from our office landline. Verizon is troubleshooting the issue, but no ETA on when we will be back up as...
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AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile have finally agreed to replace SMS with a new RCS standard [telecom]
There will be a new app By Dieter Bohn All four major US carriers - AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint - have each issued the same joint press release announcing the formation of "a joint venture"...
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California Blackouts Hit Cellphone Service, Fraying a Lifeline [telecom]
As power is cut to reduce the wildfire risk from electrical wires and towers, a primary source of emergency communication is put in jeopardy. By Carol Pogash and Brian X. Chen California's recent...
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AT&T reports phone, internet outages [telecom]
by Dan Claxton NEW BLOOMFIELD - Telephone and internet customers in Columbia and Jefferson City were experiencing outages in central Missouri Monday morning, according to the company's website....
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AT&T Reaches Deal With Activist Investor To Sell Assets And Restructure Management [telecom]
By Sergei Klebnikov Facing pressure from an activist hedge fund investor, AT&T said on Monday that in addition to adding new board members, the company would divest up to $10 billion of assets in 2020...
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Can medical records be used for marketing? [telecom]
Help Desk: Can your medical records become marketing? We investigate a reader's suspicious "patient portal." Our tech columnist helps identify a HIPAA loophole, explains Apple Pay and shares a Firefox...
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Inside the Phone Company Secretly Run By Drug Traffickers [telecom]
Crime blogger Martin Kok was assassinated while leaving a sex club. It turned out MPC, one of his clients, was not an ordinary phone company. By Joseph Cox Martin Kok had already dodged death once...
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iPhone update leaves Apple fans fuming over deleted emails [telecom]
iPhone update leaves Apple fans fuming over deleted emails Apple's devoted fan base came to expect design perfection after a string of breakthrough products over the years. By David Ingram Shannon...
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