White House and FCC announce big, broken solutions to America"s pitiful broadband theregister.co.uk
America"s fight with Huawei is messing with the world"s 5G plans cnn.com
Google Fiber: A Timeline of the Good, the Bad & the Ugly lightreading.com
Veteran consolidation critic Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) joins almost a dozen other House members in support of the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint multichannel.com
Truth in Cable Billing Bills introduced - Would require cable, internet and phone providers to include all charges in advertised prices, and provides remedies for wrongful charges multichannel.com
Verizon is releasing a new app next month to fight robocalls bgr.com
Following AT&T s 5GE marketing controversy, another carrier is making a similar move with 4.5G theverge.com
RootMetrics: T-Mobile now overall third-best carrier, pushing Sprint to fourth androidauthority.com
Why the future of satellite internet might be decided in rural Alaska intelligent-aerospace.com
Carriers earn higher marks on purchase experience as customer satisfaction with the wireless purchase experience has increased across all sales channels fiercewireless.com
Samsung to open stores in LA, Houston, and Long Island on February 20, the first US retail stores to be operated by the company cnet.com
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Apple aims for April launch of TV service with CBS, Viacom and Starz ca.reuters.com
Government Wlwatchdog GAO recommends a comprehensive federal Internet privacy law newsy.com
More people in the US lack broadband than the entire population of New York pcgamer.com
Sprint and T-Mobile make merger case to House committee, pledging to take on cable companies and accelerate 5G geekwire.com
American Broadband Initiative Taps Multiple Federal Agencies to Promote Broadband Deployment telecompetitor.com
With the National Broadband Map Under Attack, Eight States Will Help NTIA Update the Data telecompetitor.com
Dish Undaunted About Wireless Plans lightreading.com
Sling TV pads its lead in the in the bloody virtual MVPD war, adds 50K subscribers in Q4 multichannel.com
Cable and satellite TV companies need a miracle to save them from cord-cutting fastcompany.com
FCC chairman threatens "regulatory intervention" if telecoms don"t combat robocalls by 2020 techspot.com
Researchers find a way to run malicious code on Intel-based systems using the SGX feature, preventing antivirus software from identifying or analyzing malware arstechnica.com
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Zero Rating Actually Costs Broadband Customers More, EU Study Finds techdirt.com
AT&T 5G Markets Will Grow to Include Minneapolis and Chicago, Initial Markets are Seeing 400 Mbps Speeds telecompetitor.com
Why Verizon Is Seeking Grassroots Support for Its 5G Buildout lightreading.com
T-Mobile"s Legere: We Are the Un-Cable, Too multichannel.com
Public Knowledge to Hill: T-Mobile/Sprint is Presumptively Illegal multichannel.com
Latest RootMetrics network report names Verizon best nationally for the 11th consecutive time, 10th straight for fastest network verizon.com
Some customers getting 200Mbps or more on AT&T 5G millimeter wave network pocketnow.com
T-Mobile CEO to Congress: We Won t Use Huawei Equipment After Sprint Acquisition fortune.com
Streaming Alternatives Are Cannibalizing Traditional Pay TV fool.com
Senate Democrats urge regulators to put kibosh on T-Mobile-Sprint merger cnet.com
Bell Canada asks Canadians for permission to harvest and sell their browsing, location, viewing and other data boingboing.net
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Enough of the 5G Hype eff.org
Verizon wants you to pitch 5G to local officials - The carrier is sponsoring a website called Let"s 5G!, and has even drafted the letter for you to sign cnet.com
Verizon re-affirmed that it will shut down its CDMA 3G network at the end of this year for all but some enterprise customers who will keep 3G service for a few more years lightreading.com
Pennsylvania s Attorney General is suing Verizon, saying the company failed to deliver promised incentive items to consumers who enrolled in certain two-year contracts with the company Pittsburgh.cbslocal.com
T-Mobile sees big opportunity to be OTT video distributor and service hub for a la carte streaming, not just a source for traditional pay TV fool.com
T-Mobile covering more Verizon switchers with $650 pocketnow.com
Shocking: Carriers not forced to abide net neutrality rules tend to raise data prices, not lower them androidpolice.com
AT&T deploys (actual) mobile 5G network at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX (Dallas Cowboys home stadium) fiercewireless.com
The headline-grabbing subscriber loss number for AT&T DirecTV is misleading due to the ending of promos, and the majority of subscriber loss was of low-value, promo-hopping customers that AT&T does not want anyway seekingalpha.com
Amazon announces it"s acquiring mesh WiFi company eero to make it easier for customers to set up and connect their smart home devices engadget.com
Google Fi SIM cards can now be purchased at Best Buy techspot.com
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Bill proposed in Texas would make it illegal for Verizon and other carriers to throttle data speeds in disaster areas phonearena.com
Good enough 5G fixed-wireless broadband could change everything, but it might be to 5G what Betamax was to VHS zdnet.com
SpaceX now seeking FCC permission to operate up to a million earth stations that get users online via their Starlink broadband satellites techspot.com
Arkansas congressional committee repeals state"s prohibition on municipal broadband theregister.co.uk
5G Wars Heat Up as Sprint Sues AT&T Over Fake 5G telecompetitor.com
Subscription on Demand (SVOD) streaming services are headed for a battle royale in the next year multichannel.com
Verizon prepares for 3.5 GHz tests in Boston, Phoenix fiercewireless.com
President Trump expected to sign executive order banning Chinese network equipment androidpolice.com
MGM"s pay TV channel Epix launches Epix Now, a $5.99/month streaming service, available on iOS, Apple TV and Android, says it is coming to Roku and Fire TV soon variety.com
Get a free Apple TV 4K when you order AT&T"s Fiber Internet service phonearena.com
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In a humiliating setback, Google Fiber forced to leave Louisville, Kentucky after roll out of its gigabit internet across the city fails spectacularly; service will shut down on April 15th theverge.com
Cable lobby asks for net neutrality law allowing paid prioritization - NCTA says paid prioritization should be allowed if it creates "public benefit" arstechnica.com
Congress flaunts its ignorance in House hearing on net neutrality techcrunch.com
T-Mobile to Test Fixed Wireless Broadband Using LTE by This Summer lightreading.com
T-Mobile President Mike Sievert says the company won"t develop its own skinny bundle of streaming TV channels, focusing rather on search, discovery, and billing techcrunch.com
USDA ReConnect Rural Broadband Deadlines Extended telecompetitor.com
T-Mobile Won"t Charge a Premium for 5G lightreading.com
A Deeper Look At Verizon"s Early 5G "Launch" Finds It"s Barely Available techdirt.com
Why 5G Isn"t Here Yet Even Though We Are Being Told It Is forbes.com
T-Mobile claims merger with Sprint will boost 5G speeds 4-6x fiercewireless.com
Brits will kiss goodbye to free EU roaming in the event of a no-deal Brexit totaltele.com
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Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless Broadband Than Countries Without It eff.org
5G can t fix America s broadband problems theverge.com
Windstream shifts gears on video, moves to MobiTV streaming via broadband approach instead of a traditional IPTV or cable-based approach telecompetitor.com
T-Mobile"s Legere Calls Dish a Spectrum Hoarder lightreading.com
Senate Democrats seek FCC investigation of carriers" video delivery: Carriers say allegations they are secretly throttling Netflix, YouTube, Amazon are fundamentally wrong multichannel.com
Loon to Adapt Its Balloon Tech for Telesat s Satellite Internet Service spectrum.ieee.org
NCTA"s Powell: Time to sever Net Neutrality"s endless loop, and Congress must muster the bipartisan will multichannel.com
Hundreds of bounty hunters had access to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint customer location data for years - Documents show bail bond companies used a secret phone tracking service to make tens of thousands of location requests motherboard.vice.com
City of Tampa sues Frontier and Verizon for damage to pipes tampabay.com
Google, Charter argue CBA (C-band spectrum for 5G) sale would inevitably lead to lawsuits fiercewireless.com
Virgin Media is trialling the UK s fastest home broadband which.co.uk
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Estate agents in UK warn sluggish speeds could slash house prices by 20% dailymail.co.uk
The broadband industry loves bullshit names - You ve heard of 5G; now meet 5G E, 5G TF, and 10G theverge.com
AT&T: Super Bowl Mobile Data Traffic Sets Records telecompetitor.com
Pai: 5G Future Is a Wired One with Promise for Rural America telecompetitor.com
Virgin Media, Arris Test 8-Gig Symmetrical Speeds lightreading.com
Court Won"t Dismiss Allen Suit Against Charter - Upholds earlier decision; bars en banc appeal; paves way for Comcast suit multichannel.com
Verizon Fios Looks to Goose Gig Sales With Free Netflix: New Gigabit Connection sign-ups get 12 months free of premium streaming service multichannel.com
T-Mobile"s John Legere promises no rate-hikes for at least three years if the Sprint merger is approved androidpolice.com
Has weed whacker Ajit Pai been caught out? telecomtv.com
Disney says ESPN+, its standalone subscription streaming service that launched in April, has 2M+ users, up from 1M in September theverge.com
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Fixed wireless: It s not just for urban densification fiercewireless.com
FCC defends information service classification in net neutrality trial pocketnow.com
Ajit Pai loses in court - judges overturn gutting of Tribal broadband program arstechnica.com
Shentel Launches Gigabit Broadband in Virginia telecompetitor.com
FCC Gets Set to Adopt Legacy USF Phase-Out Plan for CAF II Auction Areas telecompetitor.com
Analyst Maps Verizon 5G in Sacramento, Finds "Pretty Sparse" Coverage lightreading.com
Former FCC commissioner Mignon Clyburn, known for championing consumer issues, advising T-Mobile-Sprint on $26 billion merger cnet.com
T-Mobile network outperforms the rest at Super Bowl fiercewireless.com
T-Mobile Takes Home Another JD Power Trophy In Customer Care androidheadlines.com
AT&T s fake 5G icon invades the iPhone in latest iOS beta bgr.com
Russian pirates found a new business model, sharing ripped TV and movies via private CDNs with streaming sites that monetize the CDNs" streams via ads torrentfreak.com
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Killer broadband: Expert warns superfast 5G broadband could cause cancer in humans, kill wildlife, and cause the Earth"s magnetic field to change dailystar.co.uk
FCC struggles to convince judge that broadband isn t telecommunications arstechnica.com
FCC Sets Date For Next 5G Spectrum Auction lightreading.com
A college student who stole $5M+ in cryptocurrency via SIM hijacking gets 10 years in prison and is the first person in the US to be sentenced for such a crime motherboard.vice.com
Comcast Anoints Roku, Shuns Apple TV Amid Now TV Development Push multichannel.com
T-Mobile is facing backlash for "sexist" Super Bowl ads businessinsider.com
Verizon Super Bowl ads honor California firefighters following criticism for throttling firefighters" data speeds last summer during the one of the state"s largest wildfires usatoday.com
AT&T s price increases the result of billion-dollar merger debt slashgear.com
T-Mobile, C-Band Alliance spar over plans for 3.7-4.2 GHz fiercewireless.com
Sprint"s latest quarterly results "better than feared", also remains on track to launch a mobile 5G service this year while it waits to see if gov will approve merger with T-Mobile fiercewireless.com
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Charter will spend less on cable network in 2019 but charge customers more arstechnica.com
Fight for Net Neutrality back in court tomorrow techspot.com
Locast, a free app streaming Network TV a la Aereo (but with one possibly significant difference), would love to get sued nytimes.com
Loon Takes Its Broadband Tech Up a Notch With Satellite Deal pcmag.com
Charter CEO: "Spectrum Mobile Is Ramping Up" lightreading.com
AT&T Plans to Test 5G with AirGig, Seeks AirGig Manufacturers telecompetitor.com
FCC has proposed eliminating amortization of upfront buildout costs, making the currently suspended broadband break for schools and libraries permanent multichannel.com
How Verizon and AT&T are preparing for Super Bowl 53 techrepublic.com
AT&T s Mega Mergers Are Going Poorly, And You re Footing the Bill motherboard.vice.com
Sprint posts loss while watching phone customers jump ship as it awaits a T-Mobile lifeline cnet.com
Extreme cold and low temperatures trigger AT&T service outages in Michigan crainsdetroit.com
Ultraviolet, the cloud movie locker that launched in 2011 with support from major Hollywood studios, is shutting down on July 31 variety.com
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NY Congressman Urges FCC to Put the Heat on Charter lightreading.com
AT&T CEO: mmWave 5G Will be Fixed Broadband Alternative in "3 to 5 years" lightreading.com
Verizon likely halting its 5G Home service rollout after test cities, waiting for 5G hardware to actually exist 9to5mac.com
DirecTV Now lost a staggering 14% of its users in Q4 due to AT&T"s decision to cut back on promos - Losses drop the platform to No. 3 behind Hulu in vMVPD race multichannel.com
AT&T Mobility"s fourth quarter looks sad compared to T-Mobile and Verizon phonearena.com
T-Mobile announces post-merger call center expansion, says it will create more than 5,000 jobs; CWA not appeased multichannel.com
AT&T s forthcoming streaming service so far sounds a lot like Hulu engadget.com
Apple Music subscribers can stream music without paying for Wi-Fi on domestic American Airlines flights in the US starting February 1 apple.com
Xbox Live outage temporarily broke a bunch of Xbox One consoles cnet.com
Aussie ISP Optus will start delivering its 5G Home Broadband in 2Q 2019 zdnet.com
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Report: Apple told studios and networks to be ready for a launch of Apple"s streaming service by mid-April, the same month investors see a Disney+ preview theverge.com
Verizon CEO Expects Standard 5G Phones First, "5G Home" CPE to Follow in 2019 lightreading.com
Verizon s Fios TV Losses in 2018 More than Doubled Despite Platform Upgrade multichannel.com
Doyle: Net Neutrality Will Be First Subcommittee Hearing multichannel.com
T-Mobile and Sprint execs to defend merger on Capitol Hill cnet.com
Verizon slammed by $4.9B charge on Oath restructuring nypost.com
AT&T Layoffs: Carrier Confirms Cuts Affecting Global Workforce crn.com
Congressional leaders accuse FCC of collusion in small cell ruling fiercewireless.com
Streaming TV viewership up 165% in Q4, Conviva says fiercevideo.com
These Wireless Location Data Scandals Are Going To Be A Very Big Problem For Ajit Pai techdirt.com
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As cord-cutting rises, broadband-only could make up one-third of households in next five years multichannel.com
Microsoft, C Spire, others combine to push rural broadband solutions - Consortium will use Mississippi and Alabama as testbeds for driving affordable internet access and drive adoption broadcastingcable.com
W.Va. House passes broadband internet bill aimed at expanding high-speed wireless and broadband internet development in the state apnews.com
Kansas City snowstorm takes down Google Fiber, some customers without internet for over two weeks 9to5google.com
Verizon Quietly Builds a Completely Cloud-Based Wireless Service lightreading.com
House committees to grill CEOs Legere, Claure on T-Mobile-Sprint merger February 13th phonearena.com
U.S. announces criminal charges against China s Huawei, say company stole tech from carrier T-Mobile among other accusations venturebeat.com
Verizon, AT&T Q4 Earnings To Give Clarity On Wireless Market forbes.com
Australian telecom drops mobile network rollout over Huawei ban marketwatch.com
Sources: Apple is planning a subscription service for games; it began discussions with game developers in the second half of 2018 cheddar.com
Apple temporarily disables group FaceTime to fix a bug that lets you eavesdrop on your contacts thenextweb.com
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Trump administration reportedly pushes allies to block China"s Huawei in race for 5G network cnbc.com
Netflix puts Fortnite in crosshairs as streaming wars heat up businesstimes.com.sg
VoIP is rolling out now to the Google Voice app phonearena.com
Mobile users spent an estimated $1.27B in the top 10 US streaming video apps in 2018, up 62% from 2017; Netflix, YouTube, HBONow are top 3 overall techcrunch.com
C Spire 5G Fixed Wireless Offering Yields Download Speeds Up to 750 Mbps telecompetitor.com
T-Mobile, Xumo Teaming on "Snackable" Video App for Metro Prepaid Service lightreading.com
Court outlines Net Neutrality argument logistics; Argument will be streamed live multichannel.com
National Association of Broadcasters: Spectrum Plan must be based in sound engineering, not 5G "slogans"; Says TV white spaces has been a failed experiment multichannel.com
Verizon caves, won t charge spam fee for texts from teachers to students arstechnica.com
US court dismisses lawsuit from RIAA labels against foreign YouTube-ripping sites, citing lack of jurisdiction since no US users or businesses were targeted torrentfreak.com
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OpenSignal Mobile Networks Experience report: Verizon leads in 4G availability and video experience, but ties with T-Mobile for fastest download speeds opensignal.com
Internet Providers Say Commitment to Net Neutrality Doesn"t Prevent Challenge to Vermont Law hollywoodreporter.com
Startup Swarm raises $25 million for space-based Internet via sandwich-sized satellites plan fortune.com
C Spire fires (up) its Phazr technology, adding another 5G service to Its toolbox lightreading.com
Verizon"s Visible, which offers unlimited text, voice, and data for $40/month, announces Android compatibility and starts selling Galaxy S9, S9+, and iPhones techcrunch.com
Google tells Trump Administration that dynamic spectrum sharing - technology it and Microsoft have been pushing for use in the "white spaces" between TV channels - should be a key element of any national spectrum policy multichannel.com
Senate Democrats want another hearing on T-Mobile-Sprint merger - Reducing the number of carriers to three will result in higher prices and fewer choices, they say cnet.com
AT&T, Verizon gear up for 5G network slicing in 2020, 2021 fiercewireless.com
5G: How much are customers willing to pay for the promise? vanillaplus.com
FCC 28 GHz auction - the nation s first high-band 5G spectrum auction - closes multichannel.com
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YouTube TV Expanding to Cover Entire U.S., No International Launch Plans Right Now variety.com
Remember When Ajit Pai Said Killing Net Neutrality Would Boost Network Investment? About That... techdirt.com
Terabyte-using cable customers double, increasing risk of data cap fees arstechnica.com
After Netflix price hikes, Hulu will lower its base, ad-supported subscription plan to $6/mo, down from $8/mo, and hike its Live TV service to $45/mo on Feb. 26 theverge.com
Verizon, Using AT&T"s 5G Definition, Stakes a Bold Coverage Claim lightreading.com
Comcast Pushes Past 1.2M Mobile Subscriber Lines lightreading.com
Verizon Media To Lay Off 7% Of Workforce As Unit Struggles To Gain Traction crn.com
FCC Commissioner Carr talks 5G infrastructure, spectrum and jobs fiercewireless.com
New House judiciary subcommittee chair eyes Net Neutrality action - Pledges to work against Trump Administration efforts to "kill" net neutrality multichannel.com
Meizu announces Zero, a smartphone with no ports, speaker cutout, physical buttons, or SIM card slot; instead, it has eSIM support and 18-watt fast wireless charging gsmarena.com
Suppose TV can now alert you to changes in TV packages, so you get the best deal techcrunch.com
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Stealthy New DDoS Attacks Target Internet Service Providers darkreading.com
Netflix joins the Motion Picture Association of America, the first internet-based service to be added engadget.com
The Google Project Stream test is over now what? androidauthority.com
Cord-cutting services are following cable TV"s footsteps zdnet.com
Report: U.S. Household Broadband Data Consumption Hit 268.7 Gigabytes in 2018 telecompetitor.com
Consumer Interest in la Carte Declining - TiVo Study lightreading.com
Cable"s "10G" Branding Strategy Worked - Equity research firm says cable"s concerns about 5G are "overblown" multichannel.com
Verizon customer accidentally disables Wi-Fi on his phone, receives $700 bill phonearena.com
AT&T lays out 5G pillars: Mobile 5G, fixed wireless, edge computing fiercewireless.com
Viacom buys streaming service Pluto TV for $340 million marketwatch.com
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Broadband usage accelerates in Europe and the US broadbandtvnews.com
FCC Is Again Accepting Most Device Certifications multichannel.com
AT&T, Verizon gear up for 5G network slicing in 2020, 2021 fiercewireless.com
Walmart dumps plans for video streaming service to focus on Vudu fiercevideo.com
Verizon 5G rollout: Here is everything you need to know digitaltrends.com
A new low-latency congestion control for cellular networks phys.org
Netflix would lose 57% of their subscribers if they added commercials netimperative.com
Arizona state lawmaker proposes $20 porn tax for anyone who logs onto internet to watch, then use funds to build border wall dailymail.co.uk
Facebook and Airbus working on clandestine drone-based connectivity project neowin.net
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Big Canadian telcos hike internet prices amid soaring demand, revenues cbc.ca
WiFi firmware bug affects laptops, smartphones, routers, gaming devices - List of impacted devices includes PS4, Xbox One, Samsung Chromebooks, and Microsoft Surface devices zdnet.com
Connect America Fund Accountability Act Aims to Ensure Broadband Performance telecompetitor.com
AT&T Low-Band 5G to Arrive With Samsung Phone in 2H19 lightreading.com
Why 5G Must Happen Soon in the US - LTE is expected to start to hit a wall around 2022 or so lightreading.com
Verizon Is Finally on Board With Bundling fool.com
5G, Huawei, and Us - America Hates Competition zerohedge.com
5G phones make a lot of promises, but here s what to really expect digitaltrends.com
SEC filing: Disney lost $1B+ from streaming in its 2018 fiscal year, with a $580M loss attributed to its stake in Hulu and $469M to ownership of BAMtech cnbc.com
The End of Microsoft"s Windows Phone Is Here fortune.com
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