by James Parks, Mar 25, 2008 Verizon workers mounted a strong campaign against the sale of the company’s landlines in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont. As a result, when regulators approved the sale, the workers’ efforts created a better deal for consumers and the workers. The Electrical Workers (IBEW) and the Communications Workers of America […]
Billionaires in Mexico
Forbes magazine’s recently published list of billionaires lists ten in Mexico, a country where the per capita income is less than US$7,000. The richest man in Mexico and the second richest man in the world, Carlos Slim, is in the rarefied company of US billionaires Warren Buffet ($62 billion) and Bill Gates ($58 billion), numbers […]
Not One More – WRAN Calls For Moratorium on Cell Towers and WiFi in Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
Not One More WRAN Calls for Moratorium on Cellular Antennas and WiFi in Santa Cruz County The Wireless Radiation Alert Network (WRAN) educates our community on the adverse health effects related to Electro Magnetic Frequency (EMF) exposure in the extremely-low frequency (ELF) and radiofrequency (RF) band of the electromagnetic spectrum (1-300GHz). Energies of these frequencies, […]
Non-profit to bring wireless internet to Bangladesh.
A nonprofit based in Bangladesh is seeking local support for an initiative to set up country-wide broadband Internet facilities that will soon link schools across the largely impoverished South Asian country. Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of the Rural Advancement Committee, or BRAC, spoke about the initiative at Harvard as part of his North American tour […]
Frequent optical cable cuts worry Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board
Bangladesh telephone board is struggling hard to keep overseas call and internet services uninterrupted as its Dhaka–Cox’s Bazar fibre optic network linked to the SEA-ME-WE4 undersea cable often gets severed. Around 80 telecoms firms, including mobile and private landline operators and internet service providers which bought bandwidth from the Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board, have suffered […]
How to make a Complaint about products and services
There is now a UK government sponsored service with a web site giving you the consumer, a good selection of advice on products and services and best practice on how to make a complaint and template letters. http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk Get feedback on-line or phone a 0845 number costing 4p from a BT landline. After […]
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