Tag: Verizon

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

They had to have bought all new phones!

By:  Diane Benjamin I decided to see what the PCard and phone bills were for January.  I was interrupted and side-tracked at least a dozen times, forgive me if I missed something. http://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=15632 January phone Checks written: $26,112.00 February checks:  6,843.36 January phone PCard Charges:  $11,301.98 Total January:  $37,413.98 February PCard:  $209,026.79 https://blnnews.com/2018/02/23/phones-just-one-month/ Total February:  $216,077.72 I […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

UPDATE Phones: Just ONE month

See this story too:  https://blnnews.com/2018/02/23/they-had-to-have-bought-all-new-phones/ _____________ Internet is provided from CIRBN and not included in the below.  CIRBN was paid on the last bills and payroll:  Library 420.33, City 2725.01   http://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=15822 By:  Diane Benjamin http://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=15938 I used to have to examine all the free lunches on PCards, those day are mostly over since Renner’s PCard got […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Verizon Rewarded for Records Release With $10 Billion Government Contract

 by Joe Wolverton Verizon’s willingness to give the federal government unfettered access to its customers’ phone records is paying off handsomely for the telecommunications giant. Verizon announced on August 16: The U.S. Department of the Interior has selected Verizon to participate in a $10 billion, 10-year contract to provide cloud and hosting services. This is potentially one of Verizon’s […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Revealed: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily

Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama • Read the court order in full here Glenn Greenwald The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret […]