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Dialing Around: How Rotary Phones Shaped the Distribution of US Area Codes [telecom]

These days, our phones tend to keep track of these things for us, but back when most people memorized numbers, they did...

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monty

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AT&T cuts another 1,800 jobs as it finishes fiber-Internet buildout [telecom]

1,800 new job cuts in addition to 23,000 AT&T jobs cut since December 2017. By Jon Brodkin AT&T has informed employees...

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bill

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Cable eyes

That is a slack-holder for fiber. There are two of them ~10 ft apart. They are placed where a splice is needed. The fib...

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wb8foz

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Re: Do you know where there are Teletype machines for sale? [Telecom]

> I subscribe to a mailing list for Teletype users, called GREENKEYS. > > One of the readers posted a request for info...

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ronholbrook572

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Re: [telecom] Please help me identify this device

> One of my amateur radio friends has asked me what the device shown at > is used for. I say the device pictured by Bil...

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gmonti

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Congress is considering privacy legislation - be afraid [telecom]

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called privacy the "right to be let alone." Perhaps Congress should give states tr...

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monty

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Outlier: As Robocall Battle Rages On Marks TCPA Analysis Followed for the First Time In the Northern District of Illinois [telecom]

District of Illinois Wednesday, June 12, 2019 It is no secret that the Courts are spit to high heaven on the proper def...

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monty

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Ninth Circuit: TCPA Survives Constitutional Challenge After Minor Cosmetic Surgery [telecom]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit yesterday rejected Facebook's effort to avoid a Telephone Consumer Prot...

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monty

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Re: NPA 909 & overlay trends.

> Hell hath no fury like a businessman who doesn't want to buy new > stationary! It's not the cost of the stationary, i...

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kaminsky

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Please help me identify this device [telecom]

One of my amateur radio friends has asked me what the device shown at is used for. Please take a look and offer your ad...

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bill

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Re: Saudi Arabia tracks runaway women by cellphone IMEI [telecom]

> Saudi Arabia is hunting down women who flee the country by tracking > the IMEI number on their cellphones > > By Bill...

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Re: FCC Move Against Robocalls Is Way Overdue. Ending 'Spoofing' Should Be Next. [telecom]

> Some in the business community are decrying the Federal Communications > Commission's recent decision to allow carrie...

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Cellebrite Now Says It Can Unlock Any iPhone for Cops [telecom]

NOT SO LONG ago, companies that cracked personal devices on behalf of governments did so in secret, closely guarding ev...

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monty

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Sprint and T-Mobile Merger Approval, Said to Be Near, Could Undercut Challenge by States [telecom]

Provisions set by the Justice Department, described by people familiar with the plan, could weaken a lawsuit that 10 at...

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monty

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He Won a Landmark Case for Privacy Rights. He's Going to Prison Anyway. [telecom]

Those who score big victories for the civil liberties of every American sometimes lose their own freedom. By Cristian F...

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bill

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