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Unlimited data plans The poisoned chalice for telcos
2018-01-26 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
With mobile data consumption set to skyrocket in the coming months and years, telcos around the world are struggling to cope with the increasingly capricious demands of their customers. Consumers want to gorge themselves on as much Netflix, Spotify and Facebook as they can cram down their metaphorical throats, while simultaneously paying as little as possible for their mobile tariff. In an industry with notoriously thin operating margins, telcos may find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place as they attempt to woo new customers and generate new income streams. However, a new report by OpenSignal suggests that giving customers exactly what they ask for…read more on TotalTele.com »
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Toxic Exide Plant May Have Poisoned Children Living Nearby
2016-04-10 06:03:05| Real Estate - Topix.net
Ending the week on a particularly grim note, the State Department of Public Health released a new analysis Friday that shows that children living within a mile of the site of the former Exide battery recycling plant in Vernon have significantly higher amounts of lead in their blood than those living farther away. The study found that 3.58 percent of these children had elevated lead levels in their system, as opposed to 2.41 percent living within 4.5 miles of the facility and 1.95 percent in all of Los Angeles County, as reported by the LA Times .
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Flint is more than poisoned water, Michael Moore and General Motors
2016-03-05 16:13:12| Automakers - Topix.net
The world has come to know Flint as an American tragedy. A struggling city that has fought an uphill battle to reinvent itself after General Motors closed plants and laid off thousands of workers here in the 1980s.
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Michigan's Water Wars: Nestle Pumps Millions of Gallons for Free While Flint Pays for Poisoned Water
2016-02-17 17:57:29| Waste Management - Topix.net
As Flint residents are forced to drink, cook with and even bathe in bottled water, while still paying some of the highest water bills in the county for their poisoned water, we turn to a little-known story about the bottled water industry in Michigan. In 2001 and 2002, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality issued permits to NestlA©, the largest water bottling company in the world, to pump up to 400 gallons of water per minute from aquifers that feed Lake Michigan.
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Wonkblog: Flint's poisoned water was among the most expensive in the country
2016-02-17 08:48:37| Automakers - Topix.net
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