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Oversized Tractor Trailer Knocks Down Wires At Westchester Intersection, Causes Closure
A busy Westchester intersection is closed thanks to fallen wires knocked over by a tractor-trailer, officials said. The intersection of South Main Street and Grace Church Street in Port Chester is closed to traffic following a crash, village officials announced on Tuesday, Sept. 3 around 7 a.m. According to officials, an oversized tractor-trailer struck the overhead Optimum Cable lines in the intersection and knocked them to the ground. As a result of the crash, residents and businesses in the area should expect to be without television, internet, or landlines for most of…
Lifestyle
Did You Get One? Mysterious 'Ghost' Text Messages Confuse Thousands
Thousands of people were left in bewilderment after receiving waves of mysterious text messages dating back months ago. The “ghost messages” were sent to both iPhone and Android users this week, and reportedly were prevalent among all major cellular carriers. In total, approximately 168,000 messages were sent due to an “internal maintenance cycle,” according to CNN. According to The Verge, many of those messages were originally sent on or around Valentine’s Day 2019 but were never received at the time. The glitch was reportedly the fault of a third-party vendor. Syniverse, which pro…
Lifestyle
Here's How Many Robocalls New Yorkers Were Bombarded With In April
Robocalls continue to be a scourge for New Yorkers, with millions of callers being flooded by calls “at all hours of the day and night.” In April, New Yorkers received 290.3 million robocalls, which is an average of 112 calls per second and 11 calls per New Yorker. In April, there were 176 million robocalls made to numbers in New York City and Long Island, and there have been more than 720 million robocalls reported since the year started, according to Sen. Chuck Schumer. In response, Schumer is backing legislation that would give federal investigators the tools to trace, prosecute and fi…
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Measure To Ban Robocalls Gains Momentum Among State Lawmakers
State lawmakers in New York are taking a stand against robocalls, proposing a bill that would stop automated phone calls from being placed without prior consent. New York Sen. Brad Hoylman and Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, and consumer advocates announced the Robocall Prevention Act in Albany on Tuesday, following a record number of unwanted calls that were made in 2018. According to Hoylman, more than 47.8 billion robocalls were placed nationwide in 2018. “Our bill will stop robocalls from being made to any telephone number owned by a person in New York, unless for emergency purposes or wi…
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Verizon Reports East Coast Texting Outage
Verizon customers were unable to send or receive texts Tuesday. The company -- whose slogan is "America's most reliable network" -- confirmed a texting outage on the East Coast in a tweet. "Our technicians are fully aware we have a ton of customers that are being effected, and we're working non-stop to get this matter resolved as soon as possible," Verizon said. Outages from Boston to Florida were showed on the website Down Detector. The issue was resolved Tuesday morning.
Business
Charter Spectrum, NY Close To Deal That Would Let It Stay In State
The New York Public Service Commission is extending settlement talks with Charter Communications as the two sides potentially near a deal to keep the company in the state. Last July, the PSC issued an order kicking Charter out of New York, alleging that the company didn’t meet requirements to extends its network to underserved areas in the state. The order has led to a lengthy battle between the two sides. This week, Charter Spectrum was granted a 30-day reprieve to seek a rehearing of last summer’s order. They have until March 6 to file the petitions needed to seek a rehearing. They were a…
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NY Attorney General Joins Effort Urging Federal Action To Stop Robocalls
New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood has joined a coalition of elected officials calling on the Federal Communications Commission to create new regulations allowing telephone service providers to block robocalls. Last year, at the urging of a coalition of Attorneys General, the FCC granted phone service providers authority to block certain illegal spoofed robocalls. Now, the coalition of 34 Attorneys General throughout the country are seeking additional authority for the providers to work together to detect and block those illegal spoofed robocalls. In a formal complaint, the coaliti…
Obituaries
Sales Executive From Area Dies At Age 47
A 47-year-old area native who was a telecommunications sales executive for 25 years died unexpectedly earlier this week. Thomas Noto, who was born and raised in Dutchess County, died on Monday, Sept. 10 at Dignity Health-California Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles. Born March 5, 1971 in Poughkeepsie, he was the son of George Noto Sr. and the late Roseanne Esposito Niet. He was a graduate of Franklin D. Roosevelt High School in Hyde Park and the Florida Institute of Technology. He became an independent sales consultant in Los Angeles after his long career in the telecommunications ind…
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