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CWA calls for scrutiny of AT&T's Warner Media/Discovery deal

“For too long, regulators have had tunnel vision when it comes to anti-trust review,” said CWA President Chris Shelton. “The Biden Administration and the Department of Justice should take a serious look at the impact of this transaction on jobs and wages.”

New FCC program helps hHouseholds afford broadband service

The Emergency Broadband Benefit provides a discount of up to $50 per month toward broadband service for eligible households and up to $75 per month for households on qualifying Tribal lands.

More than 42 million Americans lack broadband access, BroadbandNow finds

BroadbandNow also found that broadband availability for all technologies, including DSL, fiber, cable and fixed wireless are over-reported.

T-Mobile has already begun backpedaling from its commitments on 5G, jobs

T-Mobile asked the California Public Utilities Commission to roll back several conditions that the CPUC imposed when approving the company’s merger with Sprint in April.

FCC investigates T-Mobile’s six-hour long nationwide voice and data outage

The Pai FCC has been reluctant to impose enforceable commitments.

COVID-19 accelerates cord-cutting in US

Over two million customers cut the cord in the first quarter of 2020.

NTIA data shows persistent digital divide among minority, low-income communities

Black and Latino communities are 7 percent less likely to have access to the Internet than white Americans.

Facebook Workplace product allows employers to suppress union organizing

CWA and the Freedom from Facebook coalition have long maintained that Facebook has too much power over people’s lives.

Instead of cutting jobs, AT&T must lead the recovery

AT&T and other corporations have been under scrutiny for failing to follow through on their promises to use their tax windfalls from the Tax Cut and Jobs Act that went into effect in 2018 to create jobs, raise wages, and increase investment in infrastructure.

24 House Democrats urge FCC to allow local governments additional time to respond to wireless equipment rule changes amid COVID-19 response

The Declaratory Ruling, if unchanged, would allow companies to expand small cell sites without regard for local processes and potential conflicting priorities.

Workers press T-Mobile on safety, merger-related job cuts as T-Mobile holds shareholder meeting

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T-Mobile retail worker Carlos Silva, from Pinole, CA, who along with his coworkers recently voted to join the CWA, asked T-Mobile to protect workers from COVID-19 as they reopen and make sure workers’ incomes are not affected by the company’s recent merger with Sprint.

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