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The pending AT&T merger with T-Mobile would go a long way toward expanding America's broadband network while improving job security for thousands of T-Mobile workers who finally would have the benefit of union representation, CWA Executive Vice President Annie Hill told AT&T shareholders Friday in Little Rock, Ark.

"Our country needs high-speed broadband for economic development, for jobs and to ensure that all Americans have affordable access to the Internet. This merger will help enormously to achieve those goals," Hill said, speaking on behalf of CWA at the company's annual shareholders meeting.

Commencing July 1, 2011, Alcatel-Lucent's payroll will be handled by ADP. In connection with conversion to ADP, certain administrative changes will occur with respect to participants' elections to contribute to the Lucent-Technologies

A coalition of New Jersey CWA members, the AARP, Citizen Action, the League of Municipalities and other groups has succeeded in scuttling, for now, a telecom deregulation bill that would have hurt consumers, workers and quality telephone service.

We received this notice today from Alcatel-Lucent.

In preparation for the upcoming Shareholders meeting in Stamford, Connecticut on May 12th, Frontier Communications put out its financial report to the SEC.