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[telecom] Unlocking your phone still illegal while carriers meet "voluntary" rules

Unlocking your phone still illegal while carriers meet "voluntary" rules As lawmakers argue, carriers have until 2015 t...

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[telecom] In Aereo's wake, Fox targets Dish's TV streaming service

In Aereo's wake, Fox targets Dish's TV streaming service Broadcaster says Supreme Court ruling killing Aereo also disma...

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[telecom] Yup, 1-800-COLLECT is still in business-and charging massive fees

Yup, 1-800-COLLECT is still in business-and charging massive fees $42.55 for a 6-minute collect call? It happened to on...

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monty

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[telecom] After Supreme Court Ruling, Aereo's Rivals in TV Streaming Seize Opening

After Supreme Court Ruling, Aereo's Rivals in TV Streaming Seize Opening By EMILY STEEL JUNE 29, 2014 Mark Ely saw an o...

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monty

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The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Aereo's service breaks the law [telecom]

By Joan E. Solsman, CNET, June 25, 2014 The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Aereo, a 2-year-old startup that reli...

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The Supreme Court's Aereo Decision: What It Says, What It Means [telecom]

By Kevin ("The Swami") Goldberg, CommLawBlog, June 27, 2014 The Supremes have spoken, and now it's the Swami's turn. [B...

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[telecom] Major Ruling Shields Privacy of Cellphones

Major Ruling Shields Privacy of Cellphones Supreme Court Says Phones Can't Be Searched Without a Warrant By ADAM LIPTAK...

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monty

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Aereo Update: Supreme Court Rules for Broadcasters [telecom]

By Harry Cole, CommLawBlog, June 25, 2014 The Supreme Court has decided the Aereo case! And the answer is (dramatic dru...

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Access to Broadband Networks: The Net Neutrality Debate [Telecom]

Today's (20-JUNE-2014) FAS' "Secrecy News" cites the following, among many others, Congressional Research Service's (CR...

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thad

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[telecom] Fire Phone Immerses Users in Amazon's World

Fire Phone Immerses Users in Amazon's World By DAVID STREITFELD JUNE 18, 2014 SEATTLE - Amazon on Wednesday announced a...

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monty

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[telecom] Amazon Fire Phone's Missed Opportunities

Amazon Fire Phone's Missed Opportunities JUNE 18, 2014 Farhad Manjoo SEATTLE - When Amazon invited the media and hundre...

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Calling Old Numbers In Ads [telecom]

Reportedly the oldest continuously-operating telephone number in the NANP is (212) PEnylvania6-5000 -- which was immort...

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Calling Old Numbers In Ads [telecom]

Reading the original letter (or press-release, I can't tell) of Julia-Louis Dreyfus joining the cast of Seinfeld[1] got...

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Odds of Aereo prevailing about 30 percent, analyst says [telecom]

By Daniel Frankel, FierceCable, June 12, 2014 | The chances of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of SVOD service A...

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Questioning the wisdom of permitting texting to E911 services [Telecom]

Background: on May 19, 2014, I posted an article to comp.dcom.telecom (C.D.T) citing this newspaper article: http://big...

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thad

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