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Connect America Fund will plug in 600,000 homes 24 Aug 2013 | 01:40 am
Connect America is working with carriers to bring broadband access to more than 600,000 rural homes.
Cell phone tower dangers continue 23 Aug 2013 | 02:06 am
Cell phone tower work is low-paid, dangerous and non-union. The death and injury toll continues to climb.
Fire Island resident forum protests Verizon Voice Link 22 Aug 2013 | 08:29 pm
Fire Island, NY residents told Verizon that the company's plan to ditch landlines leaves them with a “lack of reliable, affordable broadband service."
One-fifth of Americans still don’t use the Internet 21 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
Access to the Internet keeps increasing, but a persistent 20 percent of Americans are still not connected.
For good and ill, Verizon is phasing out copper 17 Aug 2013 | 09:47 pm
Verizon is switching customers from copper wireline to high-speed fiber -- where it's profitable.
For good and ill, Verizon is phasing out copper 17 Aug 2013 | 09:47 pm
Verizon is switching customers from copper wireline to high-speed fiber -- where it's profitable.
FCC delays Verizon request to drop landlines on Fire Island 16 Aug 2013 | 11:46 pm
The FCC will not grant automatic approval to Verizon's request to drop landlines in areas damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
FCC delays Verizon request to drop landlines on Fire Island 16 Aug 2013 | 11:46 pm
The FCC will not grant automatic approval to Verizon's request to drop landlines in areas damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
California 911 cell calls lack location info 15 Aug 2013 | 10:08 pm
Researchers found that in five critical California areas, 911 emergency calls failed to contain embedded locations.
Consumer groups ask FCC to police Lifeline program 15 Aug 2013 | 09:31 pm
Lifeline is a longtime federal program that subsidizes telephone service for low-income Americans. Right-wing critics have called it the Obama phone, but the program was actually begun under President...
