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Fiber outages slow cell recovery after Hurricane Michael

When Hurricane Michael barreled into the Florida Panhandle last week, the Category 4 storm with sustained winds of 155 miles per hour not only tore down electrical wires knocking out power for hundreds of thousands residents, but it also ripped apart fiber networks necessary for delivering broadband and mobile phone service to the region. Over the weekend, Verizon, the nation’s …

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Facebook brings its political ad rules to the UK

Facebook on Tuesday said its political ad transparency rules are expanding to the UK. That means British political ads will note who paid for them, and those doing the paying will have proven their identity and location to Facebook — by providing a passport, driver’s license or residence permit that’ll be checked by a third-party organization, according to the BBC. …

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