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AT&T West, CWA hammer out three-year agreement
Only a week after AT&T and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) reached tentative contract deal covering about 8,000 legacy wireline employees, AT&T West and CWA District 9 have finalized a three-year agreement.
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CTIA Pushes for Repeal of Enterprise Cell Phone Tax
Wireless carrier association CTIA wants the IRS to drop the rule requiring employees using company-owned cell phones to account for and pay federal income taxes on personal calls made from company mobile phones.
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Cell phone health issues--the war of words drags on
The Interphone Study was established to comprehensively provide an answer to any link between RF exposure from mobile phones and associated cancer risks. The project, which has attracted around 35 million of funds from 13 countries, was formed in 1999 and has yet to produce its report.
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Utilities: Cable should pay telecom rate for pole attachments
Cable operators and utility companies might string their wires on the same poles, but their relationship is far from friendly. A group of electric utilities that includes American Electric Power Service, Duke Energy, The Southern Co., and Xcel Energy, have now petitioned the FCC to rule that cable MSOs offering VoIP service should be required to pay the standard telecom rate to attach to utility poles versus the lower-cost cable rate.
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Cell Tower Company Apologizes For Permit Problem
The owner of a cell phone tower company has apologized to Natrona County officials for putting up cell towers without getting the proper permits first.
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City Reconsiders Cell Tower Sites
City Council is reconsidering whether cell phone towers should be allowed in residential neighborhoods. The issue reached council this week, when regional provider Shentel asked for a special-use permit to erect a telecommunications tower off East Market Street, behind the Rockingham Group.
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Southington residents object to cell phone antennas
Neighbors who live near a water tank in the area of High Tower Road are concerned about the number of cell phone antennas attached to the 63-foot-tall structure.
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Mobile phone subscriptions nudge 4 billion globally
There will be more than four billion mobile phone subscriptions globally by the end of the year, according to figures published Wednesday.
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The Children’s Wireless Protection Act
We the people of the United States petition Congress for the immediate placement of clear and visible warning labels on all cell phone packaging. The citizens of the United States are not being properly warned or protected against the harmful and potentially deadly health effects from these now ubiquitously used EMR (electromagnetic radiation) emitting products. Further, all warning labels should be paid for by industry.
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Northborough residents fired up about cell phone tower
More than 40 people attended a Planning Board public hearing on a 125-foot monopole telecommunications tower proposed to be built at the National Grid facility on Bearfoot Road.
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Telecom Companies Scramble for Funding
Companies seeking some of the $7.2 billion in federal money to bring broadband to underserved areas are rushing to meet an Aug. 14 deadline.
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Boca neighborhoods raise bar for cell phone companies
New rules require companies to look in industrial, commercial and business districts first. A neighborhood is an option if it is the only spot where the company can provide service.
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Boca Prioritizes Cell Tower Options
The city's stricter regulations on cell towers and antennas in neighborhoods likely won't stop T-Mobile from pursuing plans for the Palm Beach Farms community.
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Sprint Loss Unexpectedly Widens as Subscribers Defect
Sprint Nextel Corp., the third- largest U.S. mobile-phone company, reported a wider loss than analysts projected as wireless subscribers continued to cut off service amid the economic slump. The stock declined.
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Still strength in union numbers?
The last year or so has not been an easy one for the telecom industry's rank and file employees, particularly those who are members of unions.
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Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm Announce Joint Venture to Provide Advanced M2M Solutions
Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) and Verizon Wireless today announced an agreement to form a joint venture to provide machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless communications and smart services offerings across a wide variety of market segments, including healthcare, manufacturing, utilities, distribution and consumer products.
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Sprint to Acquire Virgin Mobile USA for $5.50 a Share
Sprint Nextel Corp., the third- largest U.S. phone company, agreed to buy Virgin Mobile USA Inc. for $5.50 a share in stock to gain prepaid customers.
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Perphaps ICNIRP’S epidemiology has it terribly wrong…
As Ahlbon et al points out in the latest ICNIRP inspired cell phone risk assessment, for carcinogens which have a very long average induction time, if there was a causal effect there should be an observable increase in risk much earlier than the average induction time.
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The Misguided Urge to Regulate Wireless
Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) has called for an inquiry into the Apple iPhone and BlackBerry Storm, the Senate Commerce Committee has held hearings, and the U.S. Justice Dept. has opened an investigation. Their concern? Wireless carriers market these expensive, cutting-edge smartphones by subsidizing the handsets and requiring two-year service agreements. What they lose on the phones they make back in monthly fees.
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Verizon Profit Drops 21%; Carrier Plans 8,000 Job Reductions
Verizon Communications Inc., posted a 21 percent profit drop after business customers cut phone lines alongside jobs. The carrier also plans to trim more than 8,000 positions in the second half.
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CINDY SAGE COMMENTS ON DARIUSZ LESZCZYNSKI’S BLOG
How reliable is the epidemiological evidence on mobile phones and cancer?
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FCC puts more pieces of leadership team in place
The FCC appears to be on track in establishing a new leadership regime, as the Senate Commerce Committee approved the nominations of Mignon Clyburn and Margaret Attwell Baker to the commission.
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ICNIRP moves to protect the cell phone industry
The below analysis from Cindy Sage raises the question on why has ICNIRP (and IEMFP who does the risk assessments for ICNIRP) moved to release its risk cell phone assessment before the Interphone report is published.
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Ken Rothman on Cell Phone Risks: Accidents and Tumors
In a just-released commentary, Ken Rothman, one of the best-known names in epidemiology, explores two of the most contentious issues related to mobile phone health risks: (1) If cell phones do lead to an increased incidence of brain tumors, when would we expect to begin to see it? And (2) How do we explain the differences between the findings of the Interphone project and those of Lennart Hardell's research group?
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Verizon Wireless proposes roaming rule change
Verizon Wireless would be willing to make a compromise on roaming service agreements with smaller mobile operators, according to a letter it sent on Wednesday after pressure from U.S. lawmakers.
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