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T-Mobile has hired former CenturyLink executive Sunit Patel to help oversee its proposed merger with Sprint.

Sunit Patel was previously Chief Financial Officer at CenturyLink, where he helped to oversee the company’s merger with Level 3. Following that merger, CenturyLink laid off approximately 1,000 employees, two percent of its workforce.

Twelve CWAers from CenturyLink, members of CWA Locals 7101 and 7102, gathered in Des Moines, Iowa, in early June for a two-day combined stewards' training and CWA STRONG organizing training.

President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress promised that corporations would use their tax cuts to invest in American workers by raising wages and create jobs. Instead corporations like CenturyLink have continued to outsource jobs, lay off workers and abandon their responsibilities to communities across our country.

Top executives at CenturyLink are leaving the working people who have built the company behind by cancelling bonuses and merit pay and eliminating their jobs.

The latest bargaining updates for Frontier Communications, CenturyLink, and AT&T Mobility.

CenturyLink workers voted with a strong majority to ratify an agreement with CenturyLink that extends the current contract by 3 years.

District 7 CWA leaders focused on ways to make CWA STRONG, joined solidarity actions at two AT&T Mobility stores, and held bargaining unit meetings covering AT&T Mobility; Public, Healthcare and Education Workers; Telecommunications and Technologies, and CenturyLink.

CWA President Chris Shelton spoke with Telecommunications & Technologies activists attending the T&T sector leadership conference.

CenturyLink technicians, Element Mobile employees, and Cricket wireless workers join CWA.

Google Fiber has gotten approval from Phoenix's City Council to light up its 1 Gbps service in the city, should it decide to come there - paving a potential new challenge to incumbent telco CenturyLink and cable operator Cox Communications.

A nationwide outage on CenturyLink's landline phone network, which impacted all toll-free numbers hosted by the telco, has been restored.

CenturyLink has promoted Duane Ring to Senior Vice President of Global Field Operations, overseeing the telco's growing data center and cloud services business lines.

CenturyLink said that it has continued to make progress in upgrading its existing copper network in the former Qwest serving territory, making it possible for nearly 50 percent of area non-rural customers to get up to 40 Mbps services.

XO Communications has completed the expansion of its on-net fiber building reach project in the Salt Lake City area with the addition of nearly 100 new buildings, making it a more competitive threat to area incumbent telco CenturyLink.

CenturyLink is aware that Comcast Business, Charter and other cable operators are going to be a bigger threat in the SIP trunking segment of the business services market as more businesses ditch their TDM-based PRI lines and analog PBXs for IP-based hosted services.

CenturyLink is accepting $500 million in the second phase of the FCC's Connect America Fund (CAF-II), enabling it deliver broadband services to about 1.2 million rural households and businesses in 33 states over the next six years.

CenturyLink announced that it has let go nearly 150 employees in Colorado, or 2.5 percent of its workforce, from the company.

CenturyLink has outlined to the FCC a five-step plan intended to reform the inmate calling services (ICS) rules.

A group of telcos including CenturyLink, Consolidated and TDS have asked the FCC to bring consistency to the retransmission consent negotiation process.

CenturyLink has begun trialing a new 100 Mbps service over its existing copper network for consumer and business customers in Salt Lake City.

CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has officially launched its Prism IPTV service in Seattle, Wash.

CenturyLink will be cutting 1,000 jobs nationwide over the coming weeks.

The T&T office prepared a Strategic Industry Fund called ?Building Strength and Unity at Independent Telecom.?