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CenturyLink Internet outage affecting Tennessee customers [telecom]

Some CenturyLink customers in Tennessee have experienced Internet and phone outages [OCT 30] as a result of cut in fibe...

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If you had a Verizon family plan in the 2000's, you've got some cash coming [telecom]

by Hunter Stuart Verizon agreed to a proposed settlement last week under which it would pay $64.2 million to settle cla...

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Verizon, AT&T Are At It Again With More Data For Less Money [telecom]

by Mark Rogowsky Another month, another promotion. At least for the moment, the nation's two biggest carriers are lower...

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With School Ban Nearing End, New York City Works on How and When to Allow Cellphones

As New York prepares to lift its longstanding ban on cellphones carried by students in schools, it joins an increasing...

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Aereo, FilmOn hopes rise again as FCC moves to redefine MVPDs [telecom]

By Samantha Bookman, FierceOnlineVideo, October 28, 2014 The FCC said it will look at updating rules that regulate cabl...

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How Apple Pay and Google Wallet actually work [telecom]

It's hard to have a meaningful discussion about Apple Pay (iOS' most recent foray into mobile payments) and Google Wall...

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Hackers swipe e-mail addresses from Apple Pay-competitor CurrentC [telecom]

Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a retailer-backed consortium, received a lot of attention this weekend when CVS and R...

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Lobbyists, Bearing Gifts, Pursue Attorneys General [telecom]

Lobbyists, Bearing Gifts, Pursue Attorneys General Attorneys general have become the object of pursuit by lobbyists who...

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[telecom] FTC sues ATT over supposed 'unlimited" data

FTC press release] "The Federal Trade Commission filed a federal court complaint against AT&T Mobility, LLC, charging t...

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CWA and Centurylink reach agreement on lead safety [telecom]

A landmark program to help protect telecom workers from unsafe levels of lead exposure has been expanded to cover all C...

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Will AT&T's price cuts keep its wireless customers on the line? [telecom]

AT&T says it's giving people what they want: more choice. Not surprisingly, many are choosing to spend less on their wi...

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Unique ID may follow some Verizon Wireless customers online [telecom]

Verizon Wireless has been subtly altering the web traffic of its wireless customers for the past two years, inserting a...

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It's a mystery to me [telecom]

As it happens, I used to be a computer programmer at NYNEX, and I worked on the system that handled service orders - th...

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F.C.C. Delays Auction of TV Airwaves for Mobile

F.C.C. Delays Auction of TV Airwaves for Mobile A lawsuit challenging the sale said that the commission's initial rules...

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2 Drug Chains Disable Apple Pay, as a Rival Makes Plans

Two Drug Chains Disable Apple Pay, as a Rival Makes Plans A consortium of merchants plans to introduce a payment system...

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