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Making Sense of the War on Huawei [telecom]

Last week was a wild ride for China-United States relations and for global markets. What began with the optimism of a 9...

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Verizon to take $4.5 Billion charge for Oath subsidiary [telecom]

Dec 12 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories...

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[telecom] Satellite Internet Providers

Folks, I currently have DSL for my internet from a telco who can't seem to keep it running - it goes down every week or...

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[telecom] Legitimate Robocallers Rejoice: TCPA Compliance is About to Get (Slightly) Easier

By Seth Williams, CommLawBlog, December 10, 2018 Believe it or not, there are companies that make legitimate "robocalls...

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60 years ago "Extension phones help all year round, but doubly so at Christmas" [telecom]

60 years ago the Bell System ran an ad in LIFE for extension phones. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZD8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=...

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How to Stop Apps From Tracking Your Location

How to Stop Apps From Tracking Your Location Hundreds of apps can follow your movements and share the details with adve...

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How The Times Analyzed Location Tracking Companies

How The Times Analyzed Location Tracking Companies Reporters tested apps made for both Android and iOS, evaluated app c...

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Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not Keeping It Secret [telecom]

Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not Keeping It Secret Dozens of companies use smartphone location...

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Bitcoin Investor Sues AT&T After Losing $23 Million In SIM Swap Hack [telecom]

An investor is asking AT&T to pay $220 million in damages in the first-ever lawsuit that attempts to hold carriers acco...

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The Telecom Digest may be on hiatus for a few days due to the storm [telecom]

My Internet service, which is supplied via a fiber line, may fail as a result of power outages or line failures during...

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Young person's opinion of Centurylink internet service [telecom]

OK, we were all young once, and I hope everyone will appreciate being reminded of what it was like to have lots of energ...

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Lawsuit alleges AT&T/DirecTV has not protected customer information [telecom]

A lawsuit filed earlier this week against AT&T-owned DirecTV and internet provider CenturyLink alleges the companies ha...

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When Answering the Phone Exposes You to Fraud [telecom]

Regulators and companies are working vigorously to stop the spread of callers that try to get consumers - in particular...

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EE and Virgin Media fined for overcharging customers

Almost 500,000 broadband and phone customers affected by excessive exit fees, says Ofcom https://www.theguardian.com/mon...

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AT&T drops White Pages residential listings from new phone books [telecom]

By Judy Newman When you need to find a telephone number, do you reach for a phone book or a computer? AT&T says so many...

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