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911, AT&T service restored in Merrill, WI [telecom]
by Michael Leischner MERRILL, WI (WSAU) -- Residents in Merrill can again use 911 and AT&T service. According to a press release issued at 7:45 Tuesday night, Merrill Fire Chief Josh Klug says the...
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Secret F.B.I. Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data From Scores of Companies [telecom]
The practice, which the bureau says is vital to counterterrorism efforts, casts a much wider net than previously disclosed, newly released documents show. The F.B.I. has used secret subpoenas to...
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What Verizon, AT&T, Sprint & T-Mobile are doing to prevent SIM card swapping [telecom]
By Craig Johnson SIM card swapping is a major problem for cell phone users. It involves a criminal transferring your mobile account information, including your phone number, from your SIM card to a...
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Australia uses new technology to catch drivers on phones [telecom]
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - An Australian state is attempting to persuade people to put down their smartphones while driving by rolling out cameras to prosecute distracted motorists. New South Wales...
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History: Western Union microwave network, 1965 [telecom]
Article in Railway signals describing the microwave network for broadband transmission Western Union was building. You may scroll through the rest of the issue. This is more modern (1965) than the...
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Area Residents Still Frustrated by Cell Phone Service Issues [telecom]
Morgan County residents suffer continued frustration from cellphone service issues By Jeremy Coumbes "I live in Woodson and basically have no coverage, and I have been working for the Census Bureau...
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AT&T extends LTE-M roaming to Canada for IoT [telecom]
In a new move, AT&T has extended its Internet of Things (IoT) roaming for devices and applications across Canada and the United States (US), having signed separate reciprocal roaming agreements with...
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School bus driver in Washington arrested after 5th-grader calls 911 to say she's 'drunk' [telecom]
"Her eyes, you could tell she was drunk. Her breath sort of smelled like alcohol," the boy told a 911 dispatcher. By Nicole Acevedo A 48-year-old school bus driver is facing charges of reckless...
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Two Widely Used Ad Blocker Extensions for Chrome Caught in Ad Fraud Scheme [telecom]
Two widely used Adblocker Google Chrome extensions, posing as the original - AdBlock and uBlock Origin - extensions on Chrome Web Store, have been caught stuffing cookies in the web browser of...
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FBI's Operation ReWired Targets International E-mail Scams [telecom]
By Jeffrey A. Greenbaum The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation announced more than 280 arrests in a law enforcement sweep aimed at schemes that trick individuals and businesses into wiring money to...
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Sep 19, 2019 - New contract ratified at CenturyLink! [telecom]
CWA members at CenturyLink in District 7 ratified a new agreement with the company this week covering about 8,000 workers in 13 states. Going into early bargaining, CWAers showed the company that they...
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CWA Members Get Boost on Picket Line from Gerry Horgan's Daughter [telecom]
Community members turned out to support strikers all over the South- east, but in South Carolina, one visitor had a special connection to CWA members on the picket line. Christine Horgan-Klien was...
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Verizon Makes SIM Swapping Hard. Why Doesn't AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile? [telecom]
Verizon employs different security procedures when porting a phone number to a different SIM card than the other carriers. This is making SIM swapping attacks harder to perform against Verizon...
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NLRB Judge Calls Foul On AT&T Unit's Union Button Ban [telecom]
An AT&T unit violated federal labor law by maintaining guidelines that prohibited wearing union buttons on work apparel and then stopping workers from sporting the buttons during contract...
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AT&T Says Customers Can't Sue the Company for Selling Location Data to Bounty Hunters [telecom]
Due to the contract fine print, AT&T says customers must instead deal with the company privately rather than in court. By Joseph Cox AT&T is arguing that its customers can't sue the company for...
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