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The Telecom Digest for Tue, 27 Apr 2021
Volume 40 : Issue 117 : "text" format

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No net for a week – and a tepid apology
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP and Stoll Stoll Berne Lokting & Shlachter P.C. Announce Pendency and Proposed Settlement of Class Action Involving Purchasers of CenturyLink, Inc. Common Stock and 7.60% Senior Notes due September 15, 2039
Biden Proposes Government Actually Try to Create Broadband Competition

Message-ID: <20210426130759.2643D755@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 13:07:58 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: No net for a week - and a tepid apology By Miller Hudson As department stores began to compete with catalog purchasing at the start of the 20th century, early entrants coined the phrase, "The customer is always right." You may not be able to order a kit home delivered by rail from Sears and Roebuck today, flat-packed much like IKEA furniture, and then assemble it on your own lot. Recently, one of these Craftsman style houses, which originally cost less than $500, sold for more than a million in southern California. https://www.coloradopolitics.com/opinion/hudson-no-net-for-a-week-and-a-tepid-apology/article_60f200ee-a643-11eb-a3dc-37d2fc786f49.html
Message-ID: <20210426125853.820B8755@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 12:58:53 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP and Stoll Stoll Berne Lokting & Shlachter P.C. Announce Pendency and Proposed Settlement of Class Action Involving Purchasers of CenturyLink, Inc. Common Stock and 7.60% Senior Notes due September 15, 2039 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA IN RE: CENTURYLINK SALES PRACTICES AND SECURITIES LITIGATION MDL No. 17-2795 (MJD/KMM) This Document Relates to: Civil Action No. 18-296 (MJD/KMM) SUMMARY NOTICE OF (I) PENDENCY OF CLASS ACTION AND PROPOSED SETTLEMENT; (II) SETTLEMENT FAIRNESS HEARING; AND (III) MOTION FOR AN AWARD OF ATTORNEYS' FEES AND LITIGATION EXPENSES https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bernstein-litowitz-berger-grossmann-llp-120000088.html
Message-ID: <20210426131318.46646755@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 13:13:18 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Biden Proposes Government Actually Try to Create Broadband Competition The broadband proposal in the American Jobs Act prioritizes allowing utilities and co-ops to provide a public option to compete with telecom monopolies. This would be a critical step. By Sean Gonsalves, Christopher Mitchell Doug Seacat, founder of the Ridgway, Colorado-based IT consulting company Deeply Digital, got a call several years ago from one of his biggest clients. CenturyLink, the only internet service provider in the region, initially said it could provide him a high-speed fiber connection, but then decided it couldn't. https://prospect.org/economy/biden-proposes-government-create-broadband-competition/

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