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Deciphering Digital Sovereignty
2020-10-29 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
The telecoms world is inundated with complex terminology and technical acronyms, but rarely has the industry produced a term as ambiguous and contentious as ‘digital sovereignty’. The scope of this term extends far beyond the telecoms sector itself, being deeply intertwined with both the geopolitical climate as well as the global economy. For Luc Hindryckx, Director General at the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA), digital sovereignty is a multifaceted issue which has been evolving in Europe over recent years, but has seen a flurry of interest in 2020 due to two key factors…read more on TotalTele.com »
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Consumer Concerns: Deciphering secret language of phone bills
2015-09-05 20:02:41| Telecom - Topix.net
According to the Federal Communications Commission's truth-in-billing rules, all phone bills must feature "clear, non-misleading, plain language describing services for which you are being billed." Steven Barad, 68, shared a recent Verizon land-line bill with me.
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Deciphering the secret language of phone bills
2015-09-01 10:58:41| Telecom - Topix.net
All major phone companies, including Verizon, have websites intended to explain to customers what's on their bills. Above, Verizon headquarters in New York City.
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Deciphering clues to prehistoric climate changes locked in cave deposits
2015-05-24 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: When the conversation turns to the weather and the climate, most people's thoughts naturally drift upward toward the clouds, but Jessica Oster's sink down into the subterranean world of stalactites and stalagmites. That is because the assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University is a member of a small group of earth scientists who are pioneering in the use of mineral cave deposits, collectively known as speleothems, as proxies for the prehistoric climate. It...
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As Andes Warm, Deciphering The Future for Tropical Birds
2015-05-12 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Londoo, a Colombian biologist, has been searching painstakingly to find their nests. Hes located hundreds of them here on the Amazon flank of the Andes, though its taken him eight years. He has rigged each one with monitoring gear to collect data that will help him better understand how tropical birds will respond to global warming. Climate change is expected to warm this region about 7 to 11 degrees Fahrenheit in this century. Researchers have predicted that the warmer temperatures would force...
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