Charter pulls request seeking early end of ban on data caps, paid peering lightreading.com
The pandemic has shown free, public broadband isn t just socialism; it s common sense labouroutlook.org
Congress Asks FCC to Thoroughly Vet RDOF Winners, Warning of Long-Term Risks telecompetitor.com
Frontier, CenturyLink Again May Have Missed CAF II Deadlines for Rural Broadband Buildouts telecompetitor.com
Europe"s telco giants come together over open RAN lightreading.com
Netflix blows by 200 million subs worldwide lightreading.com
Did your carrier deliver the fastest median download 5G data speed in the U.S. last quarter? phonearena.com
Researchers detail seven flaws in Dnsmasq, a popular open-source DNS forwarding and management suite; 1M+ networking devices are exposed online, patch available bleepingcomputer.com
FBI Warns of Increased Voice Phishing Attacks Over VoIP webpronews.com

5G Rivals Face an $81 Billion Tab After Spectrum Buying Spree wsj.com
FCC Gives its Blessing on Frontier Restructuring, Company Expects to Exit Bankruptcy Soon telecompetitor.com
Online UK sales tax considered to pay off Covid debt dailybusinessgroup.co.uk
Don t expect a less disruptive T-Mobile in 2021 lightreading.com
Further Deregulation of 5G Technology Won t Close the Digital Divide gothamgazette.com
Is there any reason to get Verizon over Visible? androidcentral.com
HBO Max Wins Biggest Share Of New Q4 Streaming Subs nexttv.com
Trump"s admin has notified Huawei suppliers including Intel that it"s revoking licenses to sell to Huawei reuters.com
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It could be years until the full benefits of 5G are unlocked cbsnews.com
Cisco says it has struck a new deal to buy Acacia Communications for around $4.5B, boosting the original purchase price by 64% wsj.com
AT&T 5G lands in US airports starting at Tampa International slashgear.com
Shaw Mobile drives wireless gains, but broadband subs slide again lightreading.com
Google completes Fitbit acquisition, vows to protect users" privacy, says deal has always been about devices, not data blog.google
Trump designates Xiaomi as "Communist Chinese military" company cnet.com
AT&T Business CEO reflects on 5G s first year: We sit in a stronger place today" rcrwireless.com
HBO Max Extends 22% Off Promotion: Streaming service for $11.66/month now goes through March 1 nexttv.com
Apple has removed a controversial feature in macOS 11.2 beta 2 that allowed its own apps to bypass third-party firewalls, security tools, and VPNs zdnet.com
Samsung"s entire lineup of Galaxy S21 phones will not include a power adapter in the box; Samsung to reduce the price of its 25W adapter to $20, down from $35 engadget.com
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ACA Connects: Smaller Video Providers Pay 43% More than Larger Providers for Retransmission Fees telecompetitor.com
Cricket Wireless announces 3G network shutdown schedule slashgear.com
FCC Chair Pai Has an Idea for the C-Band Auction Windfall and It Involves USF telecompetitor.com
T-Mobile US signs 5G deals with Ericsson and Nokia lightreading.com
Cord-cutting just got even harder for sports fans techhive.com
AT&T Restores Service Following Major Outage Across South Florida cbslocal.com
19 Devices Will Stop Working on T-Mobile s Network webpronews.com
Americans Now Spend More Time Using Apps Than Watching Live TV ubergizmo.com
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Judge refuses to cut the billion dollar damages Cox must pay the majors completemusicupdate.com
The billionaires" brawl over satellite broadband axios.com
Report: Cord-Cutting During the Pandemic Leads to Streaming Now Accounting for 68% of TV Viewing telecompetitor.com
AT&T scuttles sales of AT&T TV Now lightreading.com
Intelsat to test 4G connections to iPhones from stratosphere lightreading.com
T-Mobile"s secret sauce gives its 5G network a major advantage among its U.S. rivals phonearena.com
AT&T Reportedly Wants to Raise $14 Billion For 5G Auction webpronews.com
Verizon, UPS Partner on Drone Delivery telecompetitor.com
Roku Touts North American Smart TV Supremacy Over Samsung nexttv.com
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Dems to ISPs: You"re not gonna hike broadband prices, slap restrictions on folks in a pandemic, are you? theregister.com
North Idaho ISP Your T1 WIFI will block Facebook and Twitter for customers that request it after it received complaints over censorship newsweek.com
Verizon CEO pitches 5G as a "platform" for services like drone delivery engadget.com
T-Mobile tells the FCC that it needs more mid-band spectrum for 5G service in the states phonearena.com
AT&T, Verizon, Comcast halt donations to lawmakers who opposed Biden"s election lightreading.com
Is AT&T Smart, or Desperate for Customers? fool.com
LG says Google Stadia and Nvidia"s GeForce Now are coming to its latest TVs in the second half of 2021 theverge.com
Without a clear strategy, UK government will exclude rural areas from gigabit broadband rollout politicshome.com
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FCC Sees Increase in Advertised Broadband Speeds, Most Providers Deliver Speeds Advertised telecompetitor.com
Elon Musk s Starlink Broadband Terminals Gets Approval in U.K. bnnbloomberg.ca
Senator asks social networks, carriers to preserve evidence from Capitol riot engadget.com
Three Costly Common Misunderstandings About 5G automation.com
AT&T"s Interest in an Ad-Supported HBO Max Is a Double-Edged Sword fool.com
What is the best 5G network in 2021? androidcentral.com
Trump may add Tencent to Chinese telco delisting lightreading.com
Charter-NBCU deal adds lift to Peacock lightreading.com
SpaceX has darkened its Starlink internet satellites with visors to avoid disrupting the night - but they can still ruin astronomers" data businessinsider.com
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FCC head Ajit Pai won"t reform Section 230 before he leaves office engadget.com
T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon CEOs react to Capitol violence yahoo.com
California May Impose Lots of Conditions for Frontier to Exit Bankruptcy telecompetitor.com
Netflix, Hulu Can"t Hide Behind Internet Tax Freedom Act in Missouri Fee Fight hollywoodreporter.com
UK government watchdog report says Boris Johnson"s pledge of nationwide gigabit broadband coverage by 2025 will be missed due to litany of government failures theguardian.com
The Wi-Fi Alliance launches its Wi-Fi 6E certification program for devices that can transmit in the 6GHz band cnet.com
T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon CEOs react to Capitol violence yahoo.com
T-Mobile: 4 Million Sprint Customers Are Now on Our Network pcmag.com
Hyundai confirms that it is in early discussions with Apple on collaborating to develop a self-driving car, and says Apple is in talks with several car makers cnbc.com
NBCUniversal and Charter Communications Set Multi-Year Distribution Agreement sfgate.com
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Could The Digital Divide Unite Us? techdirt.com
T-Mobile begins putting 5G into its fixed wireless Internet service lightreading.com
CableLabs Touts 10G Progress telecompetitor.com
T-Mobile manages to tame Sprint"s churn lightreading.com
T-Mobile adds 5.6 million more customers in 2020 cnet.com
Roku CFO Louden: We Are Not Like a Cable Company nexttv.com
Cox Media Group Nears Blackout With Suddenlink nexttv.com
Pudding-Brained 5G Conspiracies Somehow Get Even Dumber techdirt.com
In a reversal, NYSE says it will go ahead with its plan to delist China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom, following Mnuchin criticism cnbc.com
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Verizon says that it will indefinitely delay the shutdown of its 3G network webpronews.com
ViaSat Asks FCC To Investigate Space X For Space Pollution techdirt.com
Electric Co-ops In Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Form Broadband Association telecompetitor.com
Verizon extends reach of low-cost broadband program Fios Forward cnet.com
AT&T CFO Defends Warner Bros. Decision to Release 2021 Film Slate on HBO Max comicbook.com
NYSE Mulls Reverting to Original Plan to Delist China Shares yahoo.com
Hackers breached Ho Mobile, an Italian telco owned by Vodafone, stealing 2.5M customers" personal info; Ho offers to replace SIM cards of affected customers zdnet.com
FBI, CISA, and ODNI, with support from NSA, say an APT likely Russian in origin is responsible for all or most of the recently discovered hacks of US agencies zdnet.com
Cable One sets launch of IP-powered pay-TV service lightreading.com
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Massachusetts lawmakers blast Comcast"s data cap lightreading.com
Verizon 5G MEC Adds Two New Markets As Carrier Looks to Help Develop Use Cases telecompetitor.com
Roku sizing up deal for Quibi"s content lightreading.com
5G Will Cover 53% of World s Population by 2025 webpronews.com
U.S. establishes Emergency Broadband Connectivity Fund of $3.2 billion convergedigest.com
NYSE Scraps Plan to Delist China Telcos in Bizarre U-Turn yahoo.com
Alaska Communications Sale Takes a New Turn telecompetitor.com
Techies create Alphabet-wide labor union: 200-plus sign up, only tens of thousands more to go theregister.com
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The Biden Administration Should Increase Phone and Internet Subsidies for Low-Income Americans slate.com
AT&T May Have Finally Found A DIRECTV Buyer, Churchill IV Is Overpaying seekingalpha.com
Report Claims First UK Customers to Receive Starlink Broadband ispreview.co.uk
20% of US broadband households currently use ad-supported streaming services and 15% use a freemium service, like Peacock mediapost.com
T-Mobile says hackers accessed some customer call records in data breach techcrunch.com
Verizon, Hearst Television reach deal to avoid blackout in some U.S. markets reuters.com
Researchers: more than 100K Zyxel firewalls and VPN gateways have a hardcoded admin-level backdoor that can grant attackers root access to devices zdnet.com
Samsung announces its Galaxy Unpacked event will be held on January 14, where it"s expected to unveil the Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra theverge.com
From Zoom to Quibi, the tech winners and losers of 2020 denverpost.com
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T-Mobile ends 2020 on a decidedly low note with yet another big "security incident" phonearena.com
FCC Cracks Down on Robocalls, Enlists Telcos to Help webpronews.com
How Trump and Biden"s fight could fundamentally change the way the internet works independent.co.uk
ESPN+ is raising its annual fee for new subscribers from $49.99 to $59.99; renewals for existing subscribers will remain $49.99 through March 2, 2021 variety.com
Rakuten Mobile can lay claim to disrupter-of-the-year lightreading.com
AT&T outage caused "significant challenges" to retailers tennessean.com
Consumers worldwide spent $407.6M across the App Store and Google Play on Christmas, up 34.5% YoY; mobile games 27% YoY to $295.6M, led by Honor of Kings sensortower.com
Group of online heavyweights bands together to defend Section 230 appleinsider.com
The Best Mobile Hotspots to Give You Fast, Secure, and Portable Wi-Fi popularmechanics.com
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Verizon Warns Viewers Hearst Signals Could Come Down nexttv.com
Nashville bombing exposed "Achilles heel" in wireless network usatoday.com
Democrats" Digital Democracy Task Force wrong direction for online democracy washingtontimes.com
Section 230 has become a bargaining chip in ongoing stimulus talks theverge.com
Ajit Pai seeks input on whether, how, spectrum can be shared for 5G nexttv.com
AT&T"s Reluctance to Sell DIRECTV Is a Bright Red Flag fool.com
With SpaceX winning RDOF funds, 2021 could be satellite"s year fiercewireless.com
Consumers worldwide spent $407.6M across the App Store and Google Play on Christmas, up 34.5% YoY; mobile games rose 27% YoY to $295.6M, led by Honor of Kings sensortower.com
US smartphone activations on Christmas Day fell 23% YoY as iPhones dominated the top 10 activated smartphones and budget devices, like LG K30, surge flurry.com
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AT&T recovers from multi-state outage after Nashville bombing theverge.com
AT&T targeted because bombing suspect believed the conspiracy theory that 5G technology was killing people dailymail.co.uk
Thanks to Congress, the FCC can now update America s broadband maps microsoft.com
SpaceX"s Starlink satellite-internet service provides rapid speeds of 175 Mbps in freezing temperatures, high winds, and deep snow, users report businessinsider.com
Monetizing 5G is operators" biggest challenge for 2021 lightreading.com
Will the C-band auction set up US operators for a European-sized failure? lightreading.com
New content on Disney+ and HBO Max leads to huge increase in app installs phonearena.com
T-Mobile quietly reveals two essential dates from its Sprint shutdown timeline phonearena.com
A look at the worst hacks of 2020: SolarWinds, Twitter, Blueleaks, University Hospital D sseldorf, Vastaamo, and Garmin wired.com
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Apparently Trump Refuses To Allow The Government To Do Anything At All Until The Open Internet Is Destroyed techdirt.com
CWA Shows Frontier Some Love in RDOF Funding Debate, asked the FCC to reject efforts by West Virginia legislators to block RDOF funding it won telecompetitor.com
Verizon 5G Nationwide becomes available on prepaid plans slashgear.com
Verizon users, here s why you should turn off 5G on your iPhone 12 bgr.com
AT&T Is Sad Because Nobody Wants To Overpay For DirecTV techdirt.com
Will AT&T"s Blockbuster Bet on HBO Max Pay Off? fool.com
Operator wins and fails for 2020 fiercewireless.com
Square has held talks to acquire music streaming service Tidal, which Jay-Z acquired for $56M in early 2015 bloomberg.com
Thanks Apple: Rumors of Samsung unbundling chargers reinforced by removal of Apple-mocking Facebook post techspot.com
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Testing suggests Verizon"s nationwide DSS 5G is slower than 4G pcmag.com
Industry Groups Ask FCC to Raise Broadband Speed Definition to a Gigabit telecompetitor.com
Internet, Cell Phone Services More Important Than Ever, but Americans Worry About Paying for Them pcmag.com
The COVID-19 relief bill passed by Congress includes the Felony Streaming Bill, which makes illegal streaming for profit a felony, with up to 10 years jail time nme.com
After 11 years, Australia declares its national broadband network is built and fully operational with 11.86M premises wired, leaving 35K not yet connected theregister.com
WOW! extends Android TV-based service to nearly all subs lightreading.com
How 5G is pushing the envelope on latency lightreading.com
T-Mobile lists 19 devices that will stop working on its network next month slashgear.com
Group of 19 security firms and tech companies including Microsoft and McAfee form Ransomware Task Force to develop a standard framework to deal with ransomware zdnet.com
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What the Biden administration can learn from Ajit Pai s FCC protocol.com
Verizon"s CTO: "I don"t know what the hell 6G is" lightreading.com
5G Deployment Could Be Bad For The Environment webpronews.com
T-Mobile Brings Wi-Fi to Transit Buses telecompetitor.com
C-band reaches $46.5B, passes AWS-3 as biggest spectrum auction ever lightreading.com
5G connections reach 229mn globally, adoption 4x faster than LTE, says Omdia vanillaplus.com
AT&T may cancel its DirecTV auction if offers don"t improve, report claims techspot.com
Sources: Apple is planning to manufacture a car by 2024 which may include self-driving tech, internally developed lidar sensors, and breakthrough battery tech reuters.com
The internet won"t break on older Android devices in 2021, thanks to certificate authority"s workaround androidpolice.com
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COVID relief bill provides $7 billion for broadband access axios.com
Rental fees for customer-owned routers will be illegal starting Monday theverge.com
Charter Spectrum Broadband Download Speeds Double in 17 Markets telecompetitor.com
RDOF Will Put Gigabit Fixed Wireless to the Test telecompetitor.com
C-band on track to be America"s biggest spectrum auction ever lightreading.com
AT&T disappointed with offers for struggling DirecTV nypost.com
Congress close to approving funds to pay rural carriers for replacing Huawei, ZTE networking gear phonearena.com
Amazon just started sharing your internet connection ktar.com
OneWeb emerges from bankruptcy, launching 36 more broadband satellites newatlas.com
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Report: COVID Fuels Strong Broadband Subscriber Growth, Higher Margins; Will Be Hard to Repeat in 2021 telecompetitor.com
Verizon s 5G network now reaches 230 million people in 2,700 cities rcrwireless.com
Comcast lights up "Stream" app for Amazon Fire TV devices lightreading.com
5G coverage map: Every US city with AT&T, Verizon & T-Mobile 5G androidcentral.com
China targeting US users through mobile network security flaws lightreading.com
As Verizon Expands 5G Markets Nationwide, Company Outlines Underlying Technology telecompetitor.com
Sony is removing Cyberpunk 2077 from PlayStation Store until further notice, and offering full refunds to people who bought it, amid reports of it being buggy theverge.com
Ofcom Ponder Regulated Social Tariff for UK Broadband and Mobile ispreview.co.uk
Microsoft unleashes Death Star on SolarWinds hackers in extraordinary response to breach geekwire.com
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