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• U.S. 2008 planned layoffs most in five years
The financial sector announced plans to shed 260,110 workers, the third largest annual industry total on record behind the 317,777 job cuts and 268,851 job cuts announced by the telecommunications sector in 2001 and 2002, respectively. The automotive ...
• Feds start wait list for converter box coupons
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the arm of the Commerce Department administering the coupon program, created the waiting list on Sunday after hitting a $1.34 billion funding limit set by Congress. The agency will send ...
• Bringing Broadband to the Urban Poor
Telecommunications companies have made some efforts to make broadband affordable. AT&T (T), the largest U.S. phone company, offers DSL access for $10 a month to new customers in 22 states, a condition for government approval of the 2006 merger ...
• Atomic time advocates eye 2008's extra second
She said she has been garnering considerable support, with the International Telecommunications Union — the arbiter of international time standards — considering a vote on a switch as early as next year, with a 2018 target to implement it. The U.S ...
• Digital TV converter coupons in short supply
... the converter boxes is likely to reach the $1.34 billion limit of its budgetary authority in the first week of January, said Meredith Attwell Baker, acting assistant secretary for Communications and Information at the National Telecommunications and ...