Verizon Bets on PayPal’s Former Chief to Lead Its Next Chapter

Dan Schulman takes over as the telecoms giant faces slowing subscriber growth and rising competition.

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911 Service Is Restored in Louisiana and Mississippi

Damage to fiber optic lines operated by AT&T was to blame for the statewide outages, which lasted more than two hours on Thursday, officials said.

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Equipment Outage Disrupts More Than 1,000 Flights at Dallas Airports

A problem with telecommunications equipment forced the authorities to slow traffic at the city’s two main airports. Delays extended into Saturday.

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Trump Has Threatened Broadcast Licenses. Here’s How They Work.

The Federal Communications Commission gives out licenses to TV stations to broadcast over radio frequencies and approves major telecom and media deals.

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Prisoners’ Phone Calls Will Soon Be Free in New York State

The move will save the loved ones of the state’s more than 30,000 prisoners over $13 million a year, advocates say.

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Cairo Telecommunications Building Hit With 2nd Fire in a Week

A blaze on Thursday at one of Egypt’s main telecommunications hubs was extinguished, days after a larger fire there killed four people and disrupted internet, transport and banking services.

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Trump Mobile Phone Company Announced by President’s Family, but Details Are Murky

The new company says it will manufacture its Android phone in the United States but it has not said how it could do that.

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Telefonica Outage in Spain Knocks Out Emergency Lines

The outage Tuesday knocked out emergency phone lines in several parts of the country for several hours.

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Cable Giants Charter and Cox to Merge in $34.5 Billion Deal

The combination, which must pass muster with antitrust authorities, would create one of the biggest TV and internet providers in the United States.

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Newark Airport’s Issues: What to Know

Many flights have been delayed at the busy hub because of radar outages, shortages of air traffic controllers and construction on a runway.

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