Telcos happen to be sitting on a gold mine of buried copper wire
Companies just need to start digging it
FCC slaps top telecom companies with $200 million in fines for selling user location data
AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint continued to sell data even after warnings
Tech giants and the evolving productivity landscape
Qualcomm does indeed have 50,000-ish employees, double those of Nvidia and AMD
Why it matters: After looking at revenue and operating income per employee for big semiconductor companies, we thought that was a fun exercise, so we have looked at another dozen tech companies in various sectors. Broadcom and Apple are in a league of their own – it is good to have a software or licensing business.
Telecom equipment makers are having a bad month, and a bad decade
Is telecom merely resting?
Fly-by-night telecoms seem to be giving the FCC the finger over its "robocall mitigation" mandate
The Commission warned them 20 months ago but just now decided to crack down
Major SMS routing company admits it had been hacked for five years
Billions of text messages worldwide could have been compromised
Nokia is adding open interfaces to its telecom equipment
Nokia's 5G future is slowly coming into focus
AT&T, Verizon, and more pledge not to penalize customers for missed payments during the COVID-19 outbreak
As part of the FCC's 'Keep Americans Connected Pledge'
Huawei sues the FTC after US telecom funds ban
Huawei is fighting back against what it considers an "unlawful order"
FTC launches probe into the privacy practices of several broadband providers
Companies including AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast have 45 days to hand over requested information
Google is building three more undersea cables, adding new zones for improved cloud infrastructure
Google to add Netherlands, Montreal, Los Angeles, Finland, and Hong Kong cloud computing regions
Congress has accepted $101 million from telecom companies looking to influence policy
AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon are the biggest donors
Residents in Colorado give BigTel the finger, vote for city-run broadband
Council is looking to build a fiber infrastructure
Today the US House votes to repeal online privacy rules, last chance to protect your browsing history
If you care about your right to online privacy, read this and act fast!
