Policy & Regulation

Former Nortel Networks workers who feared they’d lose their company-covered benefits by March 31 will continue to get coverage through the end of the year, in a deal announced on Monday. Bankrupt Nortel negotiated the $57 million deal with groups representing the ex-employees. The agreement impacts tens of thousands of pensioners, long-term disability recipients and workers who lost their severance ...

Who knows what finally pushed Canada’s government to act (it is an election year, after all), but the country’s feds at last are heeding Ontario-based Nortel Networks’ pensioners calls to guarantee their monthly payments.Pensioners have pleaded for the past year for their elected officials to take action – the requests largely were ignored, and who knows why. A number of ...

Nortel Networks pensioners in Canada aren’t giving up on their quest for a government rescue and protection of their retirement funds.Bankrupt Nortel is giving ex-workers no guarantees that their benefits will be available – and that’s particularly hard on the company’s elderly, disabled and otherwise-vulnerable former employees. So, on Wednesday, ex-staff took matters into their own hands, pressing federal officials ...

Let’s say network operators, despite predictions to the contrary, do use the recent Supreme Court ruling to fund anti-net neutrality lobbying in the upcoming mid-term elections. And let’s say pro-net neutrality efforts at the FCC and in Congress die. What then for net neutrality advocates? Supporters say, if that were to happen, expect a renewed push for putting Internet access ...

Frontier Communications Corp. (FTR), on the verge of becoming the largest rural telco in the United States, has hired a former FCC commissioner as its new chief legal officer and executive vice president of regulatory and government affairs.Kathleen Abernathy, who served on the FCC from 2001 to 2005, last week resigned from Frontier’s board of directors – where she had served ...