6 Tips to Thwart COVID-19 Cyberscams

Check out USTelecom’s 6 Tips to Thwart COVID-19 Cyberscams with helpful hints to stop online scams and stay connected (and secure) during the COVID-19 emergency. Much more information is also available at https://www.ustelecom.org/our-priorities/action-center-coronavirus/.

Here are selected resources we trust will be relevant to our members, their employees, and the communities, families, and enterprises they serve. These are just a few of the additional resources on the website:

Support for Resiliency, Continuity and Safety
• Designed for Demand: How Networks Keep Your Data Flowing
• Morning Consult Op-Ed: Broadband & COVID-19: #TogetherApart
• S. Chamber of Commerce’s Resilience in a Box
• CDC Interim Guidance for Businesses and Employers
• While At Home

What Our Members Are Doing
(listings as of 04.25.20)
• COVID-19 Network Performance – Designed for Demand
• "Staying Connected – Our National Broadband Commitment" by Jonathan Spalter
• Alaska Communications
• AT&T
• Blackfoot Communications
• CenturyLink
• Chariton Valley
• Cisco
• Comporium
• Consolidated Communications
• Ericsson
• Frontier
• GVTC
• Hargray Communications
• Jefferson Telecom
• NEC
• Northland Communications
• NTT
• Oracle
• Pioneer
• RiverStreet Networks
• Silver Star Communications
• Smithville Communications
• Telefónica
• Twilio
• Verizon
• Verizon’s Pay It Forward Live: The biggest names in entertainment are helping the smallest names in business
• Wabash
• Windstream

What We’re Reading
• The Virus Revealed Our Essential Tech (and Weeded Out the Excess)
• Vox Recode: This is the end of the office as we know it
• The Aspen Institute: The Internet After COVID-19: Will We Mind the Gaps?
• The Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Coronavirus Crisis Vindicates the FCC’s ‘Net Neutrality’ Rollback
• Yahoo Finance: Robocalls decline in March as task force combats coronavirus-related scams
• Morning Consult Op-Ed: Broadband & COVID–19: #Together Apart
• The Wall Street Journal: How Enforcers Curtailed a Coronavirus Robocall Scam
• Associations Now: Five Essential Tools For Your Remote Toolkit
• The New York Times: We Live in Zoom Now
• Harvard Business Review: Prepare Your Supply Chain for Coronavirus
• PCMag: 20 Tips for Working From Home
• NPR: 8 Tips To Make Working From Home Work For You

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