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History Bell Telephone and WW II

Bell Telephone ran numerous advertisements touting its contributions to the war effort. It also encouraged people not t...

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Re: Australia uses new technology to catch drivers on phones [telecom]

> For those of you who say it doesn't effect you, then you are part of the 0.5% > of the population for which that is a...

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Ajit Pai wins (and loses) in court as net neutrality repeal is mostly upheld [telecom]

A federal appeals court today upheld the Federal Communications Commission's repeal of net neutrality rules but said th...

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Ninth Circuit Ends Prohibition On Political Robocalls [telecom]

by Nathan L. Garroway, Bety Javidzad and Mark A. Silver The Ninth Circuit phrased the question in Victory Processing v....

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CWA Calls on Congress to Pass PRO Act to Expand Workers' Rights to Organize [telecom]

September 26, 2019 On Wednesday, the House Committee on Education and Labor passed the Protecting the Right to Organize...

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Mass surveillance threatens reporting that relies on confidential sources [telecom]

RCFP is arguing for the reversal of a district court decision in a case challenging mass surveillance by NSA. By BASMA...

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Union Urges AT&T to Reject Activist Investor Elliott's Proposals [telecom]

Union Urges AT&T to Reject Activist Investor's "Archetype Ploy of Vulture Capitalists" by Georg Szalai Communications W...

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CWA Bargaining and Mobilization Update [telecom]

September 26, 2019 Frontier Communications Frontier Communications workers in California rallied in Pomona on Friday ca...

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WA: Stevens County receiving reports of Verizon Wireless outages [telecom]

It is unknown when service will be restored. The Stevens Co. Sheriff's Office says those who need emergency services mu...

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Re: [telecom] History Western Electric music systems

> > The Western Electric company used to sell commercial sound systems. I remember buying a WE loudspeaker [755?] in the...

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CenturyLink outage affects Jefferson City customers [telecom]

Some Jefferson City customers experienced disruptions to CenturyLink internet service Monday. All services were restore...

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History 100 years ago Western Electric home appliances [telecom]

100 years ago Western Electric made dishwashers, as shown by this ad in Popular Science....

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History Western Electric music systems [telecom]

The Western Electric company used to sell commercial sound systems. Here are 1948 ads for Western Electric recorded mus...

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Here's What 5G Means for Your Laptop and Tablet [telecom]

By Sean Riley 5G is finally here and all the major wireless carriers are rolling out their new networks and churning ou...

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[Paywall] AT&T's Text Message Surveys Violate TCPA, 7th Circ. Hears [telecom]

A putative class of consumers told the Seventh Circuit Friday that a lower court too narrowly defined "autodialer" when...

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