Friday - August 29, 2008
The Federal Communications Commission has spent nearly a year testing devices designed to use empty television channels, known as white spaces, for high-speed Internet service. As those tests near conclusion, the agency is evaluating yet another proposal about the best use of the airwaves. Technology giants such as Google, Microsoft and Motorola want the FCC to let them use vacant channels without licensing to provide cheap wireless broadband. But TV broadcasters and wireless microphone makers are opposed.
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Thursday - August 28, 2008
Scott Goldman uses his mobile phone to call friends and business contacts all over the world, from Britain to Australia. But the Southern California-based consultant doesn't pay a dime in international tolls to his mobile phone carrier, AT&T, the biggest in the U.S.
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Tuesday - August 26, 2008
China Unicom, the smaller of the country's two mobile operators, beat forecasts with a sharp rise in quarterly earnings on Monday as a result of improved margins at its GSM-standard network and Internet businesses. The company is set to take over the fixed-line operator China Netcom.
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Saturday - August 23, 2008
It began with a bolt of lightning that struck the utility wires behind Bruce Ende's home more than a decade ago. Every summer since then, when the weather turns hot and sticky, Ende's phone conversations have been consumed by static. Sometimes, he said, his line simply disconnects. Each year, Ende calls AT&T to complain and the phone company sends a repairman to patch things up.
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Monday - August 18, 2008
Qwest Communications has reached a tentative agreement with its largest union about a day after a labor contract had expired, both sides said early Monday. The Denver-based Qwest came to terms on a three-year deal with the Communications Workers of America, which represents about 20,000 of its employees in 13 states.
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Wednesday - August 13, 2008
A nationwide study released Tuesday by the Communications Workers of America labor union found that Internet connection speeds in the United States have increased little over the past year. The nation's median data download speed gained just 0.4 megabits per second, it reported. At that rate, it will take more than 100 years before the U.S. attains speeds currently found in Japan, according to the CWA.
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Tuesday - August 12, 2008
The iPhone-using world just got a shot in the arm for VoIP communication. Global IP Solutions has announced support for application developers for VoIP-based utilities running on the iPhone -- which means that actual VoIP calling might not be far off. In simple terms, VoIP lets a phone make calls using the Internet as the delivery backbone rather than a regular telecom service.
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Monday - August 11, 2008
Verizon Communications and two unions representing 65,000 workers who had threatened to strike within hours agreed Sunday on a new three-year contract that provides 10.5 percent wage increases and changes in retirement benefits. The pact, which must be ratified by union members, was hailed as a "breakthrough agreement in many ways" by Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen.
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Friday - August 8, 2008
New technologies in Verizon's future and its contentious past with telecommunications unions are set to collide this weekend as the company faces a new deadline for talks regarding compensation issues for some 65,000 of its workers. The Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers on Friday imposed a bargaining deadline of 12:01 a.m. ET Monday.
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Friday - August 8, 2008
Vonage Holdings' subscriber growth nearly ground to a halt in the second quarter, as the Internet telephone company said Thursday it gained just 2,000 lines in the period. Chief Executive Officer Marc Lefar said the company made some progress in keeping its existing customers, but a pullback in TV advertising led to lower recruitment of new customers.
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Wednesday - August 6, 2008
Sprint Nextel continues to shed wireless customers despite efforts to improve service and lure high-end subscribers to its network. The number of mobile subscribers at the carrier declined to 51.9 million in the second quarter ended June 30, down 3.9 percent from the 54 million it reported during the same period in 2007, according to the company's financial statements.
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Tuesday - July 29, 2008
Markets responded favorably to Tuesday's news that the chairman and CEO of Paris-based Alcatel-Lucent would be leaving the merger-troubled company. The telecommunication company's stock was up nearly 6 percent by market close following the announcement that CEO Serge Tchuruk and CEO Pat Russo will both leave later this year.
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