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Small Texas City Losing Cable TV, Keeping Internet after Network Sale

Broadband Breakfast

6,000) will soon experience a shift in its media landscape as TDS Telecom plans to discontinue its cable TV service there by Sept. The move comes as part of a broader agreement in which TDS Telecom, headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, has sold its cable systems in Alpine and four other Texas locations. Alpine, Texas (pop.

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How Reliable is Our Nation's – and the World's – Broadband Infrastructure?

Broadband Breakfast

Were readers of this publication to present at a telecom conference on the topic of broadband reliability, outages might not be top of mind.  Stories of lasers destroying telecom satellites have been around since well before the last Millennium, and today are far more likely to occur.

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10 Interesting Facts About the Telecom Industry

ACC Telecom

10 Interesting Facts About the Telecom Industry 1. Lewis Latimer helped draft the patent for Bell’s design of the telephone. Working with Alexander Graham Bell, Latimer helped draft the patent for Bell’s design of the telephone. The first telephone answering service started in 1923.

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Supreme Court to Decide Fate of $8 Billion Broadband Fund

Broadband Breakfast

  Critics argue that the Federal Communications Commission improperly delegated legislative authority to USAC, which manages the fund, and that the fee charged to telecom providers resembles a tax, which only Congress can impose. The consolidated cases — FCC, et al. Consumers' Research, et al. and SHLB Coalition, et al.

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How to Successfully Migrate from Traditional Telecom to Modern Packet-Based Phone Networks

Sangoma

A portion of the telephone network that dates back several decades is often called Plain Old Telephone Service, or POTS for short. Applications for POTS Lines What kinds of applications have used these analog telephone lines? However, there are other applications that are still implemented on POTS networks.

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1996 Telecom Act affords FCC clear, unambiguous authority for Title II rulemaking

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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Investor owned telephone and cable companies and their trade associations hope the courts will put the U.S. That would conceivably bolster their case if the underlying statute here – the 1996 Telecom Act – was unclear or ambiguous or failed to grant the FCC authority for its rules.

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Telecom Jargon Demystified

NetWork Telecom

Ever felt overwhelmed by the telecom jargon (technical terms and acronyms) that seems to dominate the world of telecommunications? Whether you’re a small business owner trying to choose the right phone system or an IT professional tasked with managing your company’s network, understanding telecom jargon can be a daunting task.