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Tons of AT&T and Verizon customers may not have "broadband" on Thursday [telecom]

New 25Mbps minimum would leave 19% of US homes without broadband access. by Jon Brodkin The Federal Communications Comm...

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Phone Company "Outraged by Fraud and Abuse" in Obamaphone Program [telecom]

by Brian Maass DENVER (CBS4) - A nationwide cellphone company distributing phones and cellphone plans in Denver as part...

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Government Report: No High Speed Broadband Competition [telecom]

Government Report: No High Speed Broadband Competition: Blame AT&T, Verizon & CenturyLink's Two Decades of Broken Promi...

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Would you sign up for a Google wireless plan over Verizon or AT&T? [telecom]

Through an agreement with T-Mobile and Sprint, Google is on its way to becoming the newest wireless carrier in the US,...

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2014: The year of living cable TV-free

In April 2013, I quit being a cable customer after more than three decades of paying monthly for TV. It's been more tha...

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people upset that the E-911 folk want to use... [telecom]

... that they're proposing the US use the _Russian_ "Glonass" GPS system for location finding. Err..... "GLONASS was ch...

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Google's Next Telecom Move - Becoming a Wireless Carrier [telecom]

Google is preparing to sell mobile phone plans directly to customers and manage their calls and mobile data over a cell...

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CenturyLink realigns execs, continues pokey roll out of 1 gig Internet [telecom]

By Tamara Chuang The Denver Post CenturyLink has reorganized its local leadership and replaced longtime Denver general...

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New hope for water-damaged phones [telecom]

Carmel entrepreneurs, Verizon revive water-damaged cellphones by Jeff Swiatek Using some old-fashioned workbench tinker...

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Security flaw in Verizon mobile app has been patched [telecom]

The vulnerability, which Verizon has already fixed, would have let anyone to tap into a Verizon email account. by Charl...

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Looking for info on VIDAR ITS4/5 cutover Dos Palos [telecom]

I understand that this may have been one of the first applications of a digital switch. Thank you.

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Verizon to critics: Stop calling us a monopoly [telecom]

Netflix's "terminating access monopoly" claim is bogus, Verizon tells FCC. by Jon Brodkin Verizon today said it is "dis...

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The best defenses against Verizon's invasive, already-being-abused web tracking [telecom]

by Jeremy Kirk The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a list of tools that can block online advertising compa...

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Proposed MVPD Redefinition Out for Comment [telecom]

By Harry Cole, CommLawBlog, January 18, 2015 FCC looks to open ranks of MVPDs to Internet-delivered services - a move t...

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From the AT&T Archives "The Hello Machine," 1974

Watch the manufacturing, installation, testing and use of an "ESS Mainframe," (a.k.a. a 1ESS) in this 1974 "wordless poe...

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