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The Telecom Digest for Fri, 25 Jun 2021
Volume 40 : Issue 176 : "text" format

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What's Happening to the Telecom Trust?
AT&T, Verizon push free iPhones for long-term customers
Verizon secures $495 million contract with US Department of Defense to manage research network

Message-ID: <20210624152209.A3D5086D@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 15:22:08 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: What's Happening to the Telecom Trust? By David Rosen Well, the telecom media rollercoaster is once again rolling. On May 17th, AT&T announced that it was spinning off its WarnerMedia subsidiary that includes HBO and Warner Bros. for $5 billion and merging it with Discovery. This followed the May 3rd announcement that Verizon was selling off its media holdings, AOL and Yahoo, for $43 billion. Nevertheless, Comcast still owns NBC-Universal. What's going on? https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/25/whats-happening-to-the-telecom-trust/
Message-ID: <20210624153355.1A0D086D@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 15:33:55 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: AT&T, Verizon push free iPhones for long-term customers The Wall Street Journal The wireless contract is staging a comeback. U.S. cellphone carriers are offering their most generous discounts in years, handing some customers brand-new devices for no money down or small monthly payments stretched over many months. The discounts from AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and T-Mobile US Inc. require customers to make long-term commitments that give carriers the stability they need to reassure investors as they increase spending on 5G network upgrades. https://www.livemint.com/industry/telecom/att-verizon-push-free-iphones-for-long-term-customers-11622899659366.html
Message-ID: <20210624160344.0298186D@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 16:03:42 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Verizon secures $495 million contract with US Department of Defense to manage research network Verizon Public Sector has a $ 495 million contract with the US Department of Defense (DoD) to provide high-bandwidth, low-latency, Layer 2 wide area network services to support critical research. Verizon'`qs solutions, including switches, routers, firewalls and edge computing capabilities, connect 200 different research, development, testing and evaluation (RDT & E) laboratories and high performance computing (HPC) locations in the United States and abroad. https://illinoisnewstoday.com/verizon-secures-495-million-contract-with-us-department-of-defense-to-manage-research-network/265346/

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