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AT&T announces First Network core is coming online [telecom]
AT&T announced the FirstNet Wireless Network Core is going online. This is the next, big step in the process to create a network that can help first responders in future disasters like 9/11. Last week...
 
Equipment trouble hampers AT&T cell service in Vail, other valley areas [telecom]
By Scott Miller EAGLE COUNTY - If you're an AT&T customer, then you may have noticed some gaps in your service in Vail and Beaver Creek. A fix is on the way. According to AT&T representative Suzanne...
 
Card Data Stolen From 5 Million Saks and Lord & Taylor Customers
A ring of cybercriminals tapped into cash registers at retail stores to obtain the card numbers, then offered them for sale, a security firm says. By Vindu Goel and Rachel Abrams Saks has been hacked...
 
AT&T and CenturyLink are Being Sued for Exposing Millions of Private Customer Accounts Online [telecom]
By Marsha Silva Dismayed customers of both AT&T-owned DirecTV and CenturyLink are now taking action against these companies for failing to protect their information online. These days, most of the...
 
CenturyLink to discontinue CEMSS service [telecom]
CenturyLink to discontinue CEMSS service due to lack of customer demand, next-gen service migrations by Sean Buckley CenturyLink has asked the FCC for permission to shut down its Call Event and...
 
CenturyLink Trials NFV Startup NetElastic [telecom]
NetElastic, a Santa Clara, California-based startup, is gaining traction with some Tier 1 telecom operators by offering a line of network functions virtualization (NFV) software that is built...
 
Minnesota Claims Frontier Communications short of customer service standards [telecom]
Phone service provider has hundreds of complaints, mostly on internet service. By Mike Hughlett Frontier Communications in 2017 fell short of state standards for fixing phone service outages within 24...
 
Verizon Talks Up Private Core as AT&T Launches FirstNet [telecom]
By Dan Jones If you thought AT&T had the 4G public safety network market all wrapped up with FirstNet, well, think again! As AT&T Inc. launched the FirstNet network Tuesday, which all 50 states in the...
 
How Wireless Providers Are Quietly Screwing Over Some Customers [telecom]
By Rhett Jones In April, Verizon will begin charging its customers a surprisingly high fee if they intend to pay their monthly bill over the phone with a representative. It's an overlooked practice...
 
AT&T: Cell service outage in Donaldsonville area caused by fiber optic cut in Baton Rouge [telecom]
By David Mitchell DONALDSONVILLE, LA - Some AT&T wireless customers in the Donaldsonville area experienced a service outage Wednesday after a state Department of Transportation contractor cut a fiber...
 
AT&T-Time Warner Trial: Turner CEO Highlights Threat of Google, Facebook [telecom]
AT&T-Time Warner Trial: Turner CEO Highlights Threat of Google, Facebook to Ad Business By Ted Johnson WASHINGTON - Turner Networks CEO John Martin, testifying in the AT&T-Time Warner antitrust trial...
 
Is Frontier Communication's Cup Half Full Or Three-Quarters Empty? [telecom]
By Bill Zettler Summary * Frontier eliminated its dividend adding $190 million/year in cash flow. * Frontier's Convertible Preferred converts in June adding another $214 million/yr. to cash flow. *...
 
How CenturyLink Could Benefit from its Level 3 Acquisition [telecom]
By Andrew Smith CenturyLink (CTL), an American telecommunications company, completed its acquisition of Level 3 in November 2017. The acquisition could provide CenturyLink with meaningful scale in its...
 
CenturyLink Tries To Escape Pension Benefit Plan Suit [telecom]
By Adam Lidgett Law360 (March 26, 2018, 1:40 PM EDT) -- CenturyLink Inc. on Friday urged a Colorado federal court to toss a proposed class action accusing it and the investment fiduciary of its 401(k)...
 
AT&T judge warns parties to hurry to make June 21 deadline [telecom]
By Jessica Toonkel (Reuters) U.S. judge Richard Leon on Wednesday warned attorneys for the Department of Justice and AT&T Inc to speed up the trial over the proposed merger of the large...