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CWA’s AT&T Internet bargaining committee will begin negotiations with AT&T for a new contract covering nearly 5,400 workers in Districts 3, 4, 6 and 9. Bargaining will take place in Dallas; the current contract expires July 17.
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In a huge vote, CWA members at Verizon West ratified a three-year contract that increases wages by 8.25 percent and holds the line against health care cost-shifting for 5,500 workers in California.
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CWA members at AT&T Mobility in District 3 ratified a new four-year agreement by a 68 percent “yes” vote. The agreement covers about 11,200 workers in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
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The Associated Press
AT&T is raising the fee it charges buyers of the iPhone and other smart phones if they break their two-year contracts.

Starting June 1, those buyers will have to pay 5 for breaking their contract, up from 5 currently. For buyers of regular phones, the fee is being decreased by to 0.

The early termination fee goes down for every month customers stay in their contract — by for smart phones and for regular phones. So if a smart phone contract is broken after two months, the termination fee is reduced by to 5.

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Did AT&T break a contract clause with Apple regarding all you can consume data?
If so it’s possible that the Verizon iDevice is closer than ever.

The website “Boy Genius Report” which generally gets things right is reporting that Verizon may be testing the iPad on it’s network, which would coincide with next weeks WWDC conference in which Steve Jobs may announce carrier agreements to the already unlocked device which right now runs only on GSM networks in north america.

With the announcement of the end of “all you can eat” data plans for the iPad from AT&T earlier today this is an interesting development.

From BGR website:

“According to a highly placed source of ours, Verizon Wireless is currently testing Apple iPad devices on their network.” The guinea pig model, if you will, is a CDMA-compatible device. “It would appear,” adds BGR, “like the gates of heaven have opened, as we’re probably going to see not only an iPhone but also iPad on Verizon very soon, huh?”

However don’t hold your breath on the iPhone jumping over to Verizon any time soon.
Chances are better than ever though as the possibility that AT&T BROKE an agreement with apple regarding the unlimited data plans for iPad by discontinuing the plan means that Apple could be in the clear to take the iPhone and iPad anywhere they wish.

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Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:
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