T-Mobile Passes AT&T to Become Nation s Second-Largest Carrier webpronews.com
DOJ asks court to block California net neutrality law despite FCC"s attempt to preempt state laws being overturned in October 2019 arstechnica.com
Internet outages drastically increased during COVID-19 lockdowns, report finds securitybrief.co.nz
ViacomCBS"s "super" streaming service set for early 2021 debut lightreading.com
Verizon Launches 5G Ultra Wideband in San Jose webpronews.com
FCC Okays C-Band Auction for December Amid Controversy multichannel.com
Verizon"s answer to T-Mobile"s huge 5G expansion is... not very impressive phonearena.com
United States Touts Purge Of Chinese Tech For Clean Internet silicon.co.uk
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T-Mobile"s standalone 5G proves sporadic in initial tests lightreading.com
Satellite-Based Internet is putting millions of people at risk arstechnica.com
Californians, Sacramento Needs Your Voice on the State"s Broadband Future eff.org
Google"s MVNO to test Wi-Fi offloading with Boingo lightreading.com
Trump admin proposes a Clean Network effort to curb potential national security risks from China by banning untrusted Chinese apps from US app stores, more cnbc.com
COVID-19 Telecom Debt Forgiveness: Starry Wipes Out Past Due Balances telecompetitor.com
Proposed Minority Broadband Office would further accelerate broadband development in underserved and rural communities multichannel.com
Dish Buys Ting Mobile To Disrupt Wireless, But Questions Remain techdirt.com
Smart TV adoption outpacing streaming devices like Apple TV, Roku appleinsider.com
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With Broadband Domination Almost Complete, Comcast Now Turns Attention to Streaming telecompetitor.com
Trump Rescinds O Rielly Nomination at FCC multichannel.com
T-Mobile promises faster speeds, lower latency with standalone 5G launch lightreading.com
Disney says it plans to launch a general entertainment streaming platform internationally in 2021 under its Star brand, with content from ABC, FX, and more theverge.com
Broadband-only signups surge at WOW in Q2 lightreading.com
FCC Updates Wireless Broadband Speed Test multichannel.com
DISH Ting Mobile Acquisition Brings New Customers, Tucows Deal telecompetitor.com
Xbox will become the Netflix of gaming when xCloud launches on Android September 15th inputmag.com
Garmin Reportedly Coughed Up Millions in Ransom to Get Its Services Back Online gizmodo.co.uk
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Amazon will spend $10 billion to battle Elon Musk for space-based internet - Will launch more than 3,000 satellites for Project Kuiper metro.co.uk
The great broadband divide: Living without high-speed internet access cbsnews.com
Will lockdown-induced data usage patterns prevail? aei.org
Telstra DNS falls over after denial of service attack zdnet.com
Pai Lifeline Proposal: Recipients Should Get 4.5 GB Per Month, Not 11.75 GB telecompetitor.com
T-Mobile is dragging its feet with 5G buildout, tower cos warn lightreading.com
Charter rakes in subs across the board in Q2 lightreading.com
Pandemic Drives Altice USA Broadband Gains multichannel.com
Google: Eleven zero-days detected in the wild in the first half of 2020 zdnet.com
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SpaceMobile deal could kill all of AT&T"s dead zones, give the carrier unprecedented cellular coverage in the US lightreading.com
Verizon s answer for rural broadband access is a new LTE home internet service theverge.com
Comcast rides broadband wave as pay-TV takes on more water lightreading.com
Is 5G making you sick? Probably not cnet.com
Pai Proposes Permanent Change to Lifeline Mobile Data Calculation - Says Wheeler-era methodology provides for too big an annual boost multichannel.com
COVID-19 pushing telcos to boost customer service to empower at-home workers techrepublic.com
T-Mobile crushes Verizon and AT&T in yet another customer care report phonearena.com
"Shaw Mobile" banks on network convergence lightreading.com
Despite grandstanding, Congress members showed bipartisan agreement that Big Tech has too much power, a consensus that may increase scrutiny of acquisitions cnbc.com
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Why 2020 Will Be Brutal for the Cable Industry fool.com
How much do you really care about 5G? androidcentral.com
Everything You Need to Know About Slow Internet Speeds nytimes.com
Altice USA to sell a big piece of Lightpath lightreading.com
Hughes to plow $50M into OneWeb lightreading.com
Broadband Access Tech Sales Expected to Drop 7% in 2020 multichannel.com
T-Mobile"s aggressive 5G plan pricing may be all about the death of Sprint phonearena.com
AMC and Universal agree to shorten the theatrical window for films to 17 days, or 3 weekends, before Universal can release them onto premium on-demand platforms theverge.com
Arizona"s AG is leading a multi-state probe into whether Apple"s deliberate slowing of iPhones violated deceptive trade practice laws reuters.com
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Another ISP accuses the record industry of submitting dodgy takedown notices completemusicupdate.com
CES, the world s largest tech conference, will be online-only in 2021 theverge.com
Google is laying a giant new undersea internet cable stretching from New York to the UK and Spain businessinsider.com
Amid COVID-19. T-Mobile Sells and Connects Elevated Body Temperature Detection telecompetitor.com
U.S. Cellular firms up 5G mmWave, CBRS deployment plans lightreading.com
Humax Says It s Building Android TV-Solution for Major North American Telecom multichannel.com
HBO Now Support on Amazon Fire TV Set to Expire Friday multichannel.com
Verizon first to take delivery of Ericsson s U.S.-made 5G base station fiercewireless.com
Best unlocked phones that work on Verizon, Sprint and all other US carriers out of the box phonearena.com
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Verizon Fios and AT&T are the Internet Speed Kings: Report nationalinterest.org
Here"s why T-Mobile 4G speeds have recently dropped, and why 4G and 5G speeds could soon rise phonearena.com
5G will stand alone as a necessity for our future rcrwireless.com
U.S. Cellular Millimeter Wave 5G Launch on Tap for 2021 telecompetitor.com
Research reveals best cities in world for business broadband costs: Warsaw, Poland is best; Atlanta, GA worst vanillaplus.com
Consumer Cellular taking over Verizon space in Target fiercewireless.com
AT&T s epic DirecTV losses mount as another 954,000 video customers flee arstechnica.com
After 100 Years As A Bullying Gatekeeper, AT&T Pivots To Whining Unironically About Bullying Gatekeepers techdirt.com
Garmin confirms ransomware attack, services coming back online bleepingcomputer.com
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Verizon CEO: We Are Building A Transformative 5G webpronews.com
T-Mobile TVision Device Will Be a Dongle? multichannel.com
AT&T premium television losses mount informitv.com
AT&T Pushes Unlimited Plans with Nationwide 5G Launch telecompetitor.com
Verizon Fios, media units hit COVID-19 headwinds lightreading.com
Sinclair Reaches Carriage Agreement with Comcast multichannel.com
AT&T"s ridiculous mistake doesn"t feel like a mistake at all zdnet.com
SpaceX blasted for Starlink satellites photobombing Neowise comet slashgear.com
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Internal doc: T-Mobile to require all new devices to support VoLTE from August 4, and will stop supporting any non-VoLTE phones on its network from January 2021 androidpolice.com
AT&T says its low-band 5G network is now available to 205M people, joining T-Mobile as a nationwide 5G network cnet.com
HBO Max subscriber numbers demystified: Only 5% of HBO TV subs who are eligible for Max have activated variety.com
Report: Trump campaign alleges suppression of political speech after AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile blocked its texts over fears they violated anti-spam rules theverge.com
COVID-19 stings AT&T despite 5G, HBO Max rollouts lightreading.com
FCC Launches First 5G Mid-Band Auction multichannel.com
Plex launches 80+ free live TV channels across news, sports, film, classic TV, comedy, anime, and more categories, accessible by both free users and subscribers techcrunch.com
SpaceX s Starlink Satellites Ruined This Photo of the NEOWISE Comet futurism.com
Smartwatch maker Garmin hit by outages after ransomware attack theguardian.com
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AT&T criticized for startling upgrade to a new phone or lose service warning slashgear.com
T-Mobile Mid-Band 5G Markets Added, Gigabit+ Peak Speeds Claimed telecompetitor.com
As USF Contribution Factor Hits 26%, AT&T Says Congress Should Step In telecompetitor.com
Cogeco tests one-box small cells for mobile over cable as it weighs entering wireless market lightreading.com
Dish, Cox Media Group in Retrans Battle - 14 stations in 10 markets go dark to satellite TV giant s customers multichannel.com
Free State to FCC: Free Charter from Conditions multichannel.com
New look T-Mobile US significantly undercuts competitors with unlimited 5G tariff telecoms.com
Deutsche Telekom is in a 5G mess if Huawei is banned lightreading.com
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Study: Community Broadband Drives Competition, Lowering Costs techdirt.com
Users learn Peacock doesn t support HDMI connection to external monitor, lament yet another living room viewing restriction for new streaming service, which already can t be watched on Roku or Amazon Fire TV multichannel.com
T-Mobile Mid-Band 5G Markets Added, Gigabit+ Peak Speeds Claimed telecompetitor.com
Windstream fiber network expansion reaches about 100,000 new locations in 2020 first half lightwaveonline.com
T-Mobile US plans to activate a Standalone 5G core this quarter rcrwireless.com
Huawei ban could affect cloud gaming services like xCloud and Stadia, report says onmsft.com
T-Mobile is "accelerating the path to 5G for all" in three big ways phonearena.com
Roku Finds 17% of recent cord cutters will go back when live sports resume multichannel.com
Alaska Communications Broadband Expansion is State s Largest, Thanks in Part to CAF II telecompetitor.com
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Charter Spectrum"s Bullshit "Broadcast TV" Fee Soars To $16.45 Per Month techdirt.com
Verizon, AT&T knock T-Mobile s robocall claims fiercewireless.com
SpaceX"s Starlink isn"t a threat - at least not yet lightreading.com
Satellite broadband"s future to be formed by multi-orbit constellations, SES CEO says lightreading.com
SpaceX accuses MVDDS operators of 12 GHz band take-over attempt fiercewireless.com
Cloudflare apologises for major net outage computerweekly.com
The U.K. might reverse its Huawei 5G ban if Trump loses the election inputmag.com
Rise in DDoS attacks lost in pandemic scmagazine.com
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Not the "result of an attack": Cloudflare outages temporarily shutter large parts of the internet washingtonexaminer.com
The American Federal Definition of Broadband Is Both Useless and Harmful eff.org
With Covid-19, Broadband Internet Access Is a Civil Rights Issue nytimes.com
FCC: All Calls From Carriers Profiting From Robocalls May Be Blocked webpronews.com
Satellite broadband"s future to be formed by multi-orbit constellations, SES CEO says lightreading.com
Verizon outlines 800G fiber intentions lightreading.com
T-Mobile s TVision Now Underpinned by Android TV? multichannel.com
Sprint will be no more on August 2, as it officially turns into T-Mobile pocketnow.com
Frontier Hopes to Prevent Bankruptcy from Interfering with RDOF Participation telecompetitor.com
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FCC Adopts New Broadband Data Collection Rules with an Accurate U.S. Broadband Map at Stake telecompetitor.com
T-Mobile s TVision Home Cast Into Uncertainty Amid Chief Content Officer s Departure multichannel.com
T-Mobile Takes On Robocalls, Unveils Scam Shield webpronews.com
YouTube TV s value is why people ditched cable in the first place slashgear.com
Microsoft says it will offer its game streaming service, currently called Project xCloud, for free to its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers in September theverge.com
Windstream Marks 2020 Fiber Milestone of 100K New Fiber Locations So Far telecompetitor.com
WOW widens Android TV-powered service lightreading.com
Netflix"s 1H 2020 sub gains nearly equal to gains for all of 2019 lightreading.com
Peacock isn"t on Roku and Amazon Fire TV, entrenching a battle line cnet.com
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Starlink satellite internet beta imminent as Elon Musk confirms dish details slashgear.com
Biden"s telecom platform hardens around net neutrality, universal broadband, 5G funding lightreading.com
As the FCC finally starts tackling its dreadful broadband maps, Georgia reveals just how bad they are theregister.com
Microsoft CEO: Broadband internet access is a "fundamental right" cnn.com
Early review of Peacock: succeeds as a streaming service with familiar Browse section and a robust library, but Trending and Channels sections are underwhelming theverge.com
Apple TV+ usage still in the doldrums - study lightreading.com
Altice USA Completes Small System Buy multichannel.com
Ready to Talk 6G? Nokia Sees 6G in Terahertz Band Supporting 1,000 Gbps telecompetitor.com
DDoS-For-Hire Is Fueling a New Wave of Attacks wired.com
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T-Mobile, Verizon Are Top U.S. Mobile Carriers for Mobile Experience telecompetitor.com
Google Fiber expands in Utah lightreading.com
UK bans Huawei from 5G networks in victory for the Trump administration arstechnica.com
Verizon Will Drop Certain 5G Ad Claims after AT&T challenges TV spots multichannel.com
Comcast and NBCU s big new SVOD, Peacock, launches nationally Wednesday - minus Roku and Amazon support multichannel.com
Despite poor coverage, Verizon towers above its rivals in 5G smartphone sales phonearena.com
Facebook Fiber Robot Would Enable Installation on Electric Infrastructure telecompetitor.com
Google Play Pass, Android"s rival to subscription-based game store Apple Arcade, adds 150 more titles, a $29.99/year pricing option, and expands outside the US techcrunch.com
Atlantic Broadband s Research Reveals Changing Behaviors of Small and Medium Businesses During Pandemic businesswire.com
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Comcast Brings Back a Bigger Data Cap - MSO sets a 1.2 terabyte limit before levying overage multichannel.com
In a Big Cable First, Charter Plans to Participate in RDOF Auction; Eyes Billions in Funding for Rural Broadband telecompetitor.com
Comcast credits AI software for handling the pandemic internet traffic crush venturebeat.com
Virtual MVPDs have lost their pricing and packaging edge lightreading.com
Numbers aside, China has yet to prove that consumers see a value in upgrading to 5G lightreading.com
FCC member Brendan Carr sees ATSC 3.0 spec as a new and competitive broadband pipe multichannel.com
T-Mobile"s 5G network may get some sort of a boost at the next major Un-carrier event phonearena.com
Verizon, Sprint only carriers with good mobile video experience - Opensignal fiercewireless.com
J.D. Power: AT&T Tops in Business Telecommunications Satisfaction telecompetitor.com
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Biden FCC Would Restore Net Neutrality Rules, fund more municipal broadband multichannel.com
Frontier dinged $900K over hidden fees, Internet speed claims lightreading.com
SpaceX scraps planned launch of internet satellites 10news.com
Municipal Broadband Report Sees 5 Public, Private, Hybrid Models telecompetitor.com
AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon prep for standalone 5G lightreading.com
Pai: 5G Will Be Game Changer for Gaming multichannel.com
5G Risk? Huawei Is Small Potatoes Compared To TSMC (Who?) forbes.com
J.D. Power: AT&T Tops in Business Telecommunications Satisfaction telecompetitor.com
The best VoIP services for 2020 digitaltrends.com
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Rep. Doyle: ISPs Keep Claiming Service Where It Isn"t - Says it is mind-boggling that broadband mapping hasn"t been fixed multichannel.com
AT&T zooms past Verizon"s 4G network while T-Mobile takes 5G crown androidcentral.com
Verizon extends discounted internet offer to low-income customers until the end of 2020 neowin.net
Maine Broadband Privacy Law Passes Early First Amendment Test eff.org
Frontier misled subscribers about Internet speeds and prices, AG finds arstechnica.com
Battle of the billionaires: Ergen and Dell face off against Musk over 12GHz lightreading.com
Eshoo Pushes FCC Broadband Plan 2.0 - Cites COVID-19 impact on online lives; Levin said it is past time for update multichannel.com
Verizon Readies 5G Standalone Core to Support Slicing and More telecompetitor.com
As his chairmanship hits its fourth year, Ajit Pai has alienated the auto industry, lawmakers, and Trump allies, with decisions like opening 6GHz for Wi-Fi politico.com
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