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US Secret Service · New YorkWhile close to 150 world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. Secret Service was quietly dismantling a massive hidden telecom network across the New York area — a system investigators say could have crippled cell towers, jammed 911 calls and flooded networks with chaos at the very moment the city was most vulnerable.See the Story
Secret Service dismantles telecom threat around UN capable of crippling cell service in NYC
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Government Shutdown · WashingtonThe front of the Federal Communications Commission building in Washington, D.C. (FCC public domain image) The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has furloughed more than 1,000 non-essential workers as part of the agency’s government shutdown contingency plan, The Desk has learned. The agency currently employs nearly 1,300 government workers, of which around 1,050 have been placed on a temporary unpaid leave of absence after Congress failed …See the Story
FCC Furloughs 1,000 Employees Amid Government Shutdown
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United States · United StatesVerizon is in discussions with EchoStar about buying the company's AWS-3 spectrum, Bloomberg News reported Monday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the talks. AT&T announced an agreement in August to buy EchoStar's 600 MHz and 3.45 GHz licenses for $23...See the Story