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Verizon upgrades network in South Philly, Old City ahead of DNC [telecom]
by Alison Burdo For the second time in two years, Verizon is making major enhancements to its network in Philadelphia - ensuring the city is ready to handle the texts, emails, tweets and other posts...
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Verizon Strike: Epic Labor Standoff Ends, But What About The Future? [telecom]
One of the largest worker strikes in modern American history is officially over. But the fight for wireless may be just beginning. Montclair, NJ By Eric Kiefer For Verizon workers who waged one of the...
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Senate bares frustration with customer service of cable industry, including Comcast [telecom]
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that U.S. senators blasted Comcast, AT&T, Charter Communications, and Dish Network over millions of dollars in pay-TV billing overcharges, promotional pricing, bill...
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CenturyLink sounds off on special access debate, wants cable operators included as competition [telecom]
By Samantha Bookman Incumbent provider CenturyLink said it wants to work with the Federal Communications Commission on its proposed changes to special access pricing, but has a few opinions on...
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AT&T, CenturyLink: Special-Access Proposal Data Is 'Irretrievably Flawed' [telecom]
An expert's report and other analyses submitted in a Federal Communications Commission record were based on flawed data that understated offerings of Ethernet cable service, according to AT&T,...
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Cyber Attacks Worry AT&T [telecom]
The biggest ISP globally, AT&T said its network was persistently being attacked, with 30bn-and-more malicious scans occurring daily. According to Vice-President for Security Solutions Jason Porter at...
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Central Texas AT&T service restored after outage [telecom]
by Gary Dinges AT&T customers in parts of Central Texas found themselves without cellular, cable TV and Internet service Friday afternoon after a fiber-optic line was cut. On social media, some...
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MECA, AT&T reach settlement on overpayments [telecom]
By Ray King The Metropolitan Emergency Communications Association (MECA) and AT&T have reached an agreement on a settlement to claims that the company overpaid MECA for about five years. During a...
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Appeals court tosses NLRB ruling in union dispute with Verizon [telecom]
By Lydia Wheeler The nation's second most powerful court on Tuesday threw out a ruling from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in a case challenging whether Verizon employees have the right to...
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Comcast accused of union-busting tactics [telecom]
A report in the Philadelphia Inquirer had accusations that Comcast employed union-busting tactics. While Comcast has 250 union employees in the Philadelphia area, it also relies on non-union...
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[telecom] Re: Copy of "Off The Hook" broadcast available
Interested parties can download a 53MB mp3 file of last night's one-hour live remote radio broadcast from The Telephone Museum in Ellsworth, Maine. Museum curators played live sounds from the museum's...
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AT&T enhances 1 Gbps fiber-based broadband reach in 10 markets [telecom]
AT&T enhances 1 Gbps fiber-based broadband reach in 10 markets including Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles By Sean Buckley, FierceTelecom, June 14, 2016 AT&T isn't letting up on its 1 Gbps fiber-based...
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Are telephone surveys statistically valid? [telecom]
With the coming of the election season, I've been bombarded with telephone survey calls on my landline. No sooner than the primary finished they already started on the fall election. Surveyors...
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Pay-TV industry reacts as court upholds FCC's net neutrality rules [telecom]
By Ben Munson, FierceCable, June 14, 2016 A D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today voted to uphold the sweeping net neutrality rules proposed by the FCC. The decision drew quick response from the pay-TV...
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History - old telephone directories available on-line from Ancestry [telecom]
The history website, offers old city directories as an aid to research. Some of the directories are old city phone books. Many public libraries have ancestry available to the public.
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