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Time for Personal & Persistent Numbers
$229,500 is an awfully expensive wrong number. As has been widely reported, a Manhattan federal judge fined Time-Warner $1,500 for each of Time-Warner’s 153 unwanted calls to Araceli King resulting in the aforementioned hefty fine. Time-Warner’s Interactive Voice Response (e.g. robo-calling) system was calling the correct phone number. Unfortunately, for Time-Warner, that number was no longer…
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Local Sports Everywhere with No CableCARD
From the Pinewood Derby to collegiate sports, the BCSN networks carry local sports that are of interest to residents of the Toledo and Lima, Ohio area. There are several things that make the BCSN networks unique: The content creation is through a partnership with Buckeye CableSystem and its sister organization, the Toledo Blade newspaper. Together, they…
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IP – Innovation in Phones – A Simple Safety Phone
The transition of the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) to IP (Internet Protocol) is about innovation as much as it is about the change of telecommunications’ protocol. Ooma’s CEO Eric Stang provides a sneak peek of the sort of innovation unleashed by IP, as he discusses Ooma’s soon-to-be-released, two-button, IP phone. The intent of this…
