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| Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:56:17 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Benedict Cumberbatch to Fans: No Cellphones, Please
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The actor said it was "mortifying" during a recent production of
"Hamlet" to see from stage the red lights of cellphone videos
recording.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/arts/benedict-cumberbatch-to-fans-no-cellphones-please.html
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| Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 21:05:46 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon ordered to turn over phone records - all of them
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by Glenn Greenwald
The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone
records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest
telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.
The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires
Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all
telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US
and other countries.
http://goo.gl/7d46nh
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| Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 21:16:53 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: AT&T, Union Continue Talks After Contracts Expire
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by Paul Barbagallo and John Lauerman
AT&T Inc. and the Communications Workers of America continued talks on
new labor contracts as current agreements covering more than 24,000
employees in the southeast U.S. expired.
CWA leaders want concessions from the largest U.S. phone company on
job security, health-care costs and working conditions, including
better policies on forced overtime. On Friday, the union called on
AT&T to "Get serious about bargaining a fair contract."
http://goo.gl/zm0FhE
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| Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 20:58:49 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
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Subject: The Cellphone Contract Era is So Dead
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by Kevin Fitchard
Verizon's new pricing plans mean phone contracts and subsidies are now
taking their last dying breaths, which is great news for consumers.
On Friday, Verizon made a big change to how it prices mobile services,
which will have significant repercussions throughout the U.S. mobile
industry. Last week, in an unexpected move, the company decided to
eliminate service contracts. Verizon wasn't the first to do so -
T-Mobile took that step two years ago - but it's one of the biggest
names in the mobile business to make that change.
http://fortune.com/2015/08/10/cellphone-contract-era/
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| Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 21:23:40 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: CWA lauches ads against Verizon
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CWA Launches Latest Radio Ads in Eight Regions Slamming Verizon's Failure to Develop FiOS Broadband
CWA announced today a series of eight radio ads slamming Verizon's
failure to build out universal FiOS broadband across the East Coast as
it outsources jobs and cuts workers' pay. The 30-second ads are
scheduled to begin running Friday across New York, New Jersey,
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and Washington
D.C.
The ads come after Verizon allowed its labor contract to expire on
Aug. 1 at midnight, leaving 39,000 CWA and IBEW represented telecom
workers from Massachusetts to Virginia without a labor agreement. The
company has demanded harsh job security, health care and retirement
security concessions from its workers, despite making profits of $28
billion over the last five years and paying its top five executives $249
million during that time.
http://goo.gl/ZFHNjI
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| Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 21:45:33 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Pennsylvania Verizon workers rally for better pay
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With political help, Verizon workers rally in Montco, PA for better pay
by Jane M. Von Bergen, The Inquirer
Even the dog wore the union's signature red shirt, dressed appropriately
for a small rally held Friday by the Communication Workers of America at
the Montgomery County Courthouse in
Norristown (PA).
The rally, attended by Montgomery County elected officials and labor
leaders, came as talks continue between Verizon Corp. and its employees
represented by the CWA and another union, in a standoff that partly
reflects changing technology.
http://goo.gl/VvQk7e
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| Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 21:52:17 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon workers prepare for a strike
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BY Pam Galpern
Verizon wants to drive down costs, shrink its union workforce even
further, and get out of the landline business. But in negotiations this
summer it's coming head-to-head with its unions, who want to protect
gains won through decades of struggle.
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) began bargaining a new contract
in June for 38,000 telecom workers in the Northeast from Maine to
Virginia. (Full disclosure: The author works for Verizon and is a member
of CWA.)
The company raked in $9.6 billion in profits last year, and paid its top
five executives $44 million. Yet it opened bargaining with a laundry
list of giveback demands.
http://goo.gl/O9W3Ku
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