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Verizon to Discontinue Copper in Heavily Populated Areas of the Northeast [telecom]

Written by Edward Gately Verizon has asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to retire copper...

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Some Fargo, ND residents concerned after phone lines not working, no access to life saving devices [telecom]

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live)- Upset, confused and worried about the future. That's how some residents in a north Farg...

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Landline, internet problems northeast of Durango, CO [telecom]

Florida River Estates neighborhood has had spotty service for at least a week By Bret Hauff A subdivision northeast of...

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Re: Canada: The Federal Government Signals A New Policy Approach For The CRTC in the Telecom Sector [telecom]

> On February 26, 2019, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic > Development (ISED) tabled a Proposed Order I...

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New business claims better 911 service [telecom]

CBS News reported on a new company that has developed what they claim is improved 911 software that can better find the...

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Man gets 20 years for hoax call that led to fatal police shooting [telecom]

CBS News reported that a California man was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for making bogus emergency calls to...

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FTC hands multimillion-dollar fines to four robocalling companies

By Adi Robertson, CommLawBlog, Mar 27, 2019, 11:38am EDT Four "robocalling" companies, including an operation that alle...

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Ramping Up The Campaign To Make Our Hospitals Safer [telecom]

(This is from the CWA newsletter) CWA members across New York State have been campaigning for years as part of a labor...

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Cwa Supports Carried Interest Fairness Act To Level Financial Playing Field [telecom]

(This is from the CWA newsletter) One of the most outrageous loopholes in our tax code is the "carried interest" loopho...

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Connecticut Cwaers Fight For Call Center Workers, Protest Closures [telecom]

(This is from the CWA newsletter) CWA Local 1298 members took to the State Capitol in Hartford on March 7th to support...

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Workers At Altice/Cablevision Vote Union Yes! [telecom]

(This is from the CWA newsletter) Following a tough-anti union campaign, on March 5th 130 Altice Technical Service/Opti...

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Major Hurdle Passed In Fight For Call Center Jobs In New York [telecom]

(This is from the CWA newsletter) At this time last year, CWA members were staring down a tough campaign to push a bill...

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Woman Gets $500 Back After AT&T Promotion Isn't What It Seems [telecom]

After making repeated calls to AT&T without anyone helping, Sarah Hayes reached out to our Call for Action Team at WFMY...

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DEA says AT&T still provides access to billions of phone records [telecom]

By Zack Whittaker A program that allows drug agents to obtain a pool of billions of call records from AT&T is "still ac...

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The FCC has fined robocallers $208 Million. It has collected $6,790 [telecom]

U.S. telecom regulators impose penalties and seek to recoup ill-gotten gains from robocallers, but have struggled to co...

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