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North Carolina: Cable TV, ATT Cellphone Users Caught Up In Widespread Outages

editor — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:42:30 +0000

TMCnet News
Time Warner Cable and AT&T customers in the area may have found their high-tech communications offline Wednesday as the two companies reported unrelated service problems here.

Topics: United States, outage, telecom, cellular, AT&T, Time Warner, cellphone, North Carolina

Telco Chiefs In Pakistan to Face Action Over User Verification

editor — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:36:32 +0000

TMCnet News
The home ministry has threatened action against the heads of telecom service providers operating in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) if their firms issue mobile phone connections without properly verifying the identity of the users.

Topics: Bharti, telecom, cellular, Airtel, United States

Business As Usual for Alltel Customers

editor — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:20:10 +0000

TMCnet News
Customers of one Upstate cellular provider will do business as usual despite the company changing hands. Alltel customers in 13 counties in northwest South Carolina — including Union County — will see no change in their service or who provides their cellular coverage even though the Alltel assets in those counties have been sold to another company.

Topics: wireless, Alltel, voip, Verizon, cellular, telecom, merger, Federal Communications Commission, United States

Mobile Towers Being Taken Over by the “Mafia” In India

editor — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:37:21 +0000

Times of India
This shocking revelation has come to the fore in the recent probe by the IG. It is enough to show that companies engaged in installing towers of cellular mobile service providers are worried over the increasing influence of miscreants and mafia in their projects.

Topics: telecom, cellular, voip, India

Telecom Plan in Thailand Draws Fire

editor — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:20:49 +0000

Bangkok Post
Telecom academic Anuparp Thiralarp said he doubted a 3G auction – already years behind schedule – would take place as scheduled for September. he cited questions about the authority of the NTC in the absence of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), and the fact that three NTC commissioners will finish their six-year terms in September.

Topics: Thailand, broadband, telecom, cellular

Lightyear Network Solutions Names New President

editor — Tue, 18 May 2010 22:25:41 +0000

TMCnet News
Lightyear Network Solutions, Inc., a provider of telecommunication services to large, medium and small businesses, as well as residential consumers across the United States, announced that Stephen Lochmueller, industry veteran and former member of the senior management teams at Leap Wireless and Nextel Partners, has been promoted to President at Lightyear Network Solutions.

Topics: voip, Lightyear Network Solutions, telecom, Stephen Lochmueller, cellular, wireless, telecommunications

Mexico Extends Deadline for Cell Phone Registration

editor — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:03:53 +0000

TMCnet News
Mexican telecommunications regulator Cofetel extended a deadline for all cell phone users to register their telephones with the National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, or Renaut.

Topics: United States, telecom, wireless, cellular, Mexico

Woman Operated Illegal Call Center Out of Apartment

editor — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:31:37 +0000

TMCnet News
A 34-year-old woman operated an illegal call center out of an apartment in the Arbor Lakes complex on Memorial Highway, authorities say. Rosa C. Ramirez-Arias is accused of using “cloned” cell phone information to steal phone service, allowing customers of her business to make free international phone calls.

Topics: cellular, telecom, United States

Intelsat, Turksat Sign Satellite Capacity Deal For Middle East

editor — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:46:20 +0000

TMCnet News
Intelsat S.A., the world’s leading provider of fixed satellite services, today announced an agreement with Turksat A.S., the leading satellite operator in Turkey, which will result in enhanced satellite capacity serving the Middle East region.

Topics: cellular, telecom, broadband, Intelsat, United States, satellite

SpaceCom Buys Capacity on Intelsat 902 Satellite

editor — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:37:57 +0000

TMCnet News
SpaceCom International has signed a contract for capacity on the Intelsat 902 satellite, operated by Intelsat, increasing SpaceCom’s inventory of more than 400MHz combined C-Band and Ku-Band capacity.

Topics: GSM, Intelsat, Ku-band, cellular, voip, United States, telecom, satellite

Government O.K.’s Trial Use of Cell Phone Jammers

editor — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:36:53 +0000

TMCnet News
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) authorized the first federally sanctioned test of cell phone signal jamming technology inside the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, MD using CellAntenna technology.

Topics: jamming, cellular, telecom, wireless, government, United States

Zain Shareholder Group Alleges Mismanagement

editor — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:59:22 +0000

TMCnet News
Leading minority shareholder group in Zain Nigeria, Broad Communications Limited, said at the weekend that its recent legal battle against the management of the company was to safeguard the investments of shareholders in view of the alleged gross mismanagement and financial indiscretion of the Zain Group.

Topics: United States, telecom, cellular, Zain

Man With Meat Cleaver Robs Cellular Store

editor — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:36:22 +0000

TMCnet News
A man wielding a cleaver robbed a cellular phone store this afternoon, police said. The robbery occurred at Metro PCS in Martinez, California. The robber walked inside about 4:30 p.m. carrying a 10-inch non-serrated cleaver and headed for an employee. “He threatened to kill the employee if the employee called the police department,” Martinez Sgt. Glenn Walkup said.

Topics: telecom, cellular, United States

Management Shakeup at Globalstar

editor — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:25:48 +0000

TMCnet News
Effective immediately Steven Bell, Senior Vice President of North American and European Sales Operations and Robert Miller, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Ground Operations, plus a number of additional employees, are no longer with Globalstar due to the restructuring.

Topics: cellular, Globalstar, landline, government, United States, construction, telecom

Verizon Customer Receives $21,917 In Data Fees

editor — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:29:55 +0000

Tom’s Guide
According to KTVU-TV in San Jose, California, an unemployed Ted Estarija from Hayward added his 13-year-old son to his Verizon Wireless account, costing him $50 extra a month. But his first month’s bill under the new pricing plan was just a little more than the extra fee: it was a whopping $21,918.

Topics: wireless, Verizon, telecom, cellular, California, telecommunications