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A look inside a Verizon switch location [telecom]

Guilty-pleasure department - I don't know why this TV report delights me, but it does: a local things going if the powe...

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FTC Do-Not-Call web page redesigned [telecom]

Futile as it seems, I decided to file a do-not-call complaint today. And discovered that the web page for the purpose h...

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CenturyLink, a Network Provider, to Acquire Level 3, a Rival [telecom]

In a $25 billion deal, the two companies will combine to create one of the largest communications providers for busines...

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monty

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Sprint and T-Mobile impacting Verizon Wireless [telecom]

By Jeff Kagan Apparently Sprint's and T-Mobile US' growth are having an impact on Verizon Wireless. Why do I say that?...

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bill

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Targeted Ads Seen Curbed by F.C.C.'s New Privacy Rules [telecom]

By Sapna Maheshwari and Cecilia Kang In recent years, companies like Verizon and AT&T have made no secret of their ambi...

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monty

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AT&T's Vision of Ultrafast Wireless Technology May Be a Mirage [telecom]

The rapid wireless technology the company has described as a pillar of its Time Warner deal probably is a decade away f...

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Individualized Ads on TV Could Be One Result of AT&T-Time Warner Merger [telecom]

In a call with investors, the chiefs of the companies noted that the combined trove of their consumer data would be use...

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monty

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Divided FCC Adopts Tough Broadband Privacy Regs [telecom]

By: John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 10/27/2016 Subs have to agree to third-party marketing based on Web, app historie...

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Comcast Sues Over Nashville Pole Law [telecom]

By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 10/26/2016 MSO says city's make-ready ordinance should be permanently invalidated...

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Samsung Holdouts Won't Give Up Their Fire-Prone Galaxy Notes? [telecom]

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Holdouts: You're Not Taking Our Phones! Diehards are so attached they choose to ignore recall, de...

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monty

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One Last Growl for F.C.C.'s Sharp-Toothed Watchdog [telecom]

One Last Growl for F.C.C.'s Sharp-Toothed Watchdog Tom Wheeler, who increased regulation of the cable and wireless indu...

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monty

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AT&T Cheerleading Squad for Merger: Nearly 100 Lobbyists [telecom]

By Cecilia Kang and Eric Liptonoct As a multimillion-dollar donor to lawmakers, with a huge roster of lobbyists, the co...

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monty

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Why a Media Merger That Should Go Through Might Not [telecom]

By JAMES B. STEWART Opponents of the proposed AT&T purchase of Time Warner don't want to just block the $85.4 billion d...

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monty

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T-Mobile scoops up most of Verizon, AT&T's lost customers [telecom]

AT&T may have overshadowed T-Mobile's earnings announcement, but the Un-carrier had the last laugh. T-Mobile was forced...

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monty

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Every LTE call & text can be intercepted or blacked out, hacker finds [telecom]

Ruxcon Hacker Wanqiao Zhang of Chinese hacking house Qihoo 360 has blown holes in 4G LTE networks by detailing how to i...

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monty

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