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The Telecom Digest for October 27, 2013
Volume 32 : Issue 222 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
CWA workers approve contract with CenturyLink (Bill Horne)
Verizon cell service expands to MBTA tunnels (Bill Horne)
Analysis: T-Mobile strategy could eat into business of AT&T, Verizon (Bill Horne)

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Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 20:55:08 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: CWA workers approve contract with CenturyLink 
Message-ID: <20131027005508.GA15417@telecom.csail.mit.edu>

By David Migoya
The Denver Post

POSTED:   10/25/2013 

Members of CenturyLink's largest union on Friday approved a tentative
multiyear contract four weeks after the membership had rejected an
earlier version.

The Communications Workers of America District 7 represents legacy
Qwest employees. It was unclear Friday what the vote tally was to
approve the contract, which, according to the union, will run though
2017.

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_24389983/cwa-workers-approve-contract-centurylink

-- 
Bill Horne

There's something Calvinist about the Red Sox - 
they win enough, but not too much
   - Red Barber




Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 20:39:31 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon cell service expands to MBTA tunnels 
Message-ID: <20131027003931.GA12269@telecom.csail.mit.edu>

By Martine Powers / Globe Staff

Something miraculous is unfolding deep in the bowels of the MBTA
subway system [in Boston]. Verizon cellphone users, rejoice: Service
has arrived underground.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/blogs/starts-and-stops/2013/10/24/verizon-cell-service-expands-mbta-tunnels/qlwAnEjKcg9msKP4mgtq5L/blog.html

-or-

http://goo.gl/RP86OM

-- 
Bill Horne

What do Southern women say when they have their first orgasm?
They say "What was that?"
... and then they go home and slap their husbands. 
  - Robert Bly




Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 20:10:48 -0400
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Analysis: T-Mobile strategy could eat into business of AT&T,  Verizon 
Message-ID: <20131027001048.GA10820@telecom.csail.mit.edu>

By Sinead Carew
NEW YORK | Thu Oct 24, 2013

(Reuters) - T-Mobile US Inc is expected to post stronger subscriber
growth than its larger rival AT&T Inc for the second straight quarter,
suggesting the upstart carrier's bold new customer policies could
shake up the U.S. mobile market.

Intensifying competition from T-Mobile, the No. 4 wireless provider,
and a challenges from No. 3 Sprint Corp, may deplete revenue growth at
AT&T and the market-leader Verizon Wireless at time of slowing overall
growth.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/24/us-tmobile-wireless-analysis-idUSBRE99N16T20131024

-- 
Bill Horne

When Fall comes to New England
The sun slants in so fine
And the air is so clear, you can almost hear
The grapes grow on the vine
  - Cheryl Wheeler






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