FCC reportedly fining AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon at least $200 million for selling location data androidpolice.com
Net Neutrality Docket is Now FCC"s Busiest multichannel.com
Senate passes rip and replace bill to remove old Huawei and ZTE equipment from networks techcrunch.com
SpaceX May Be Eyeing the RDOF Auction for Rural Broadband Funding telecompetitor.com
The best wireless provider in the US could come from... Mexico? lightreading.com
Google Fi already using T-Mobile s 5G network on supported phones 9to5google.com
T-Mobile conducts layoffs as it prepares to complete Sprint merger arstechnica.com
New version of the Cerberus Android trojan able to steal one-time codes generated by the Google Authenticator app and bypass 2FA-protected accounts zdnet.com
YouTube TV Is absolutely screwed: Streaming Service will lose access to a significant portion of its live sports after Sinclair standoff trustedreviews.com
read comment(s)

Report Finds 5G Deployments Worldwide in 378 Cities Across 34 Countries, U.S. Ranks Third Globally telecompetitor.com
AT&T TV s Launch Date Has Been Moved To March 2nd 2020 cordcuttersnews.com
Broadband Forum adds to the 5G jigsaw with new standards rcrwireless.com
Bug in Cypress and Broadcom Wi-Fi chips meant billions of devices, many now patched, were left open to eavesdropping; Apple, Amazon, and others were affected arstechnica.com
AT&T"s FirstNet buildout nears completion, albeit with some hiccups lightreading.com
AT&T and Verizon axed nearly 30K jobs last year lightreading.com
Appeals Court Reinstates Viamedia Antitrust Suit Against Comcast multichannel.com
FCC now collecting data on Huawei use in US networks cnet.com
Cleveland broadband firm Everstream buys Dan Gilbert"s Rocket Fiber of Detroit crainscleveland.com
read comment(s)

UK Government believes that 5G and fiber broadband are higher priority than US trade deal eandt.theiet.org
Comcast buys free ad-supported streaming service Xumo for more than $100 million cnbc.com
Mirantis co-founder targets 5G "oligopoly" with private networks startup FreedomFi lightreading.com
WOW! embraces pay-TV cord-cutting lightreading.com
Verizon s 5G network just pulled off a blazing-fast 4.2Gbps data transfer bgr.com
T-Mobile will offer free year of MLB.TV to its users on March 24 cnet.com
Google reportedly wants to do business with Huawei again bgr.com
Google patches Chrome zero-day bug - The third actively exploited Chrome zero-day discovered in the past year zdnet.com
Facebook Aims To Get 3.5 Billion People Online So That It Can Profit From Their Data forbes.com
read comment(s)

Dish Faces Concerns Whether It Can Build Network Within Budget webpronews.com
Firefox turns encrypted DNS on by default to thwart snooping ISPs arstechnica.com
What if 5G fails? A preview of life after faith in technology zdnet.com
Verizon: Attacks on Mobile Devices Rise darkreading.com
T-Mobile and Sprint Reach New Merger Agreement webpronews.com
CWA, AT&T reach tentative contract deal covering 8K workers fiercewireless.com
Fox, NBCU Shopping for Streaming Services: Reports multichannel.com
Add Windstream to the Growing YouTube TV Partnerships for Streaming TV telecompetitor.com
read comment(s)

Why only one-quarter of the world will get true 5G wireless fortune.com
FCC Cites New Data as Evidence of a Shrinking Digital Divide telecompetitor.com
Streaming Video accounts for over 65% of all mobile traffic; YouTube accounts for over 25% of all mobile traffic by itself rapidtvnews.com
Alphabet"s Loon, telecoms unite to boost high-altitude internet engadget.com
Walmart in talks to sell Vudu to NBCUniversal bnnbloomberg.ca
Trump to attend White House"s planned 5G conference lightreading.com
YouTube TV strikes deal to hawk HBO Max lightreading.com
Verizon drops out of RSA cybersecurity event over coronavirus fears, following AT&T and IBM mashable.com
Subscribers to multiple streaming services more likely to also be online pirates: survey theguardian.com
read comment(s)

Could Verizon Fios Dump Cable TV for YouTube TV? nationalinterest.org
Californians class-action against AT&T over phone speeds can proceed sfchronicle.com
T-Mobile Nabs Fifth Win in a Row for J.D. Power Wireless Purchase Experience businesswire.com
Streaming platforms like Roku and Hulu aren"t subject to the same political ad transparency rules as broadcasters even as campaigns and PACs buy ads on them washingtonpost.com
T-Mobile"s DSS warnings all hot air, claim AT&T and Verizon lightreading.com
5G spectrum auction imperiled by satellite operators" hunger for money lightreading.com
FCC: Digital Divide Closing Under Pai Chairmanship multichannel.com
White House: Net Reg Rollback Boosted Incomes by $50B Annually multichannel.com
Apple might finally let you set third-party browsers and email apps as defaults on iPhone and iPad bgr.com
HBO and Cinemax Coming to YouTube TV webpronews.com
read comment(s)

Sprint lawsuit claims top Charter execs stole trade secrets lightreading.com
T-Mobile claims it didn t lie about 4G coverage, says FCC measured wrong arstechnica.com
Dish CEO Charlie Ergen Says Merger With DirecTV Feels Inevitable thestreamable.com
California s Broadband Fund Ignores Fiber and Favors Slow DSL eff.org
Dish"s Sling TV now has 2.5M subscribers, losing 94,000 in Q4, the first time it lost subscribers since its 2015 launch variety.com
Common Networks Fixed Wireless Will Use Facebook Terragraph, 802.11ay for 1 Gbps Broadband telecompetitor.com
FCC Seeks Comment on Restoring Internet Freedom Remand: Rosenworcel calls on opponents of net neutrality rule dereg to make some noise multichannel.com
Verizon, T-Mobile bicker over C-band auction rules fiercewireless.com
Dish to spend up to $500M on 5G network build in 2020 lightreading.com
read comment(s)

America s monopoly problem, explained by your internet bill vox.com
ISPs sue Maine, claim Web-privacy law violates their free-speech rights arstechnica.com
Facebook"s gigabit wireless rolls out in Puerto Rico engadget.com
U.S. judge rejects Huawei challenge to federal law restricting its business reuters.com
The U.S. is failing at convincing Europe to ban Huawei"s 5G equipment androidcentral.com
Sprint, OneWeb, Delta, others team for Internet standard for airplanes lightreading.com
Trump Pardons 80"s Junk Bond King Michael Milken, Hailing Him as Helping to Create Cable, Wireless multichannel.com
The best VoIP services for 2020 digitaltrends.com
Amazon stokes cable operator opportunity with Fire TV discounts lightreading.com
read comment(s)

New York won t appeal T-Mobile/Sprint merger, California still deciding venturebeat.com
Sprint cuts the price of 5G lightreading.com
SpaceX Launches Fifth Batch of Starlink Satellites, Misses Booster Landing cdrinfo.com
Redbox launches ad-supported Free Live TV, which offers a curated set of movies and TV shows organized into channels, from brands like TMZ, USA Today, NowThis techcrunch.com
Verizon: We have more unused network capacity today than five years ago lightreading.com
Global carriers have a plan to deal with bans on Huawei phonearena.com
Huawei"s been granted another 45-day reprieve from a full ban in the U.S. inputmag.com
USDA ReConnect Awards in Tennessee, Georgia, Illinois telecompetitor.com
Google Station, which ran free Wi-Fi hotspots in 9 countries, is ending androidpolice.com
read comment(s)

Frontier, nearing bankruptcy, faces scrutiny over weeks-long phone outages: Frontier"s 20-day repair times have US senator from Wisconsin demanding action arstechnica.com
Charter and Comcast to Offer Mobile 5G, Thanks to Verizon telecompetitor.com
Ericsson Researchers Set New 5G Speed Record webpronews.com
Altice USA makes mobile, gigabit, M&A waves lightreading.com
Verizon doubles down on mmWave 5G with new 60-city deployment goal lightreading.com
German parent of T-Mobile wants to renegotiate T-Mobile, Sprint deal - DT pushing for a lower price because of the deterioration in Sprint"s performance since the deal was first mooted lightreading.com
Altice to Buy Service Electric New Jersey Systems for $150M multichannel.com
YouTube TV to end support for subscriptions through Apple in-app purchases on March 13 macrumors.com
New rules from UK regulator Ofcom could save mobile, broadband and pay-TV customers 1bn on bills theguardian.com
read comment(s)

Can New York City fix what ails American broadband? protocol.com
GSMA says it has canceled Mobile World Congress after the coronavirus made it impossible to hold the event theverge.com
Altice USA upgrades broadband with Smart WiFi lightreading.com
AT&T Keeps Pretending It Wants Real Net Neutrality And Privacy Laws. It Doesn"t. techdirt.com
Judge in the Sprint merger trial decided T-Mobile would stay aggressive due to its public image, despite execs speaking of the merger in terms of raising prices theverge.com
Comcast, Charter promise 5G services, but remain silent on pricing lightreading.com
Without Dish"s involvement, the T-Mobile-Sprint merger might have been shot down phonearena.com
What the T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Means for AT&T and Verizon? Analysts Weigh In nasdaq.com
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) Seeks FCC Status Report on Rural Missouri Broadband Buildout - Wants Answers By Feb. 19 multichannel.com
read comment(s)

T-Mobile and Sprint Win Case, Can Move Forward With Merger webpronews.com
US says it can prove Huawei has backdoor access to mobile-phone networks - Evidence hasn"t been made public, but shared by US with UK and Germany arstechnica.com
US Broadband Gaps Are Twice As Bad As The Government Claims techdirt.com
Optimum raises prices on internet and TV plans, barely warning customers theverge.com
Nielsen: streaming makes up 19% of US TV watching, with Netflix comprising 31% of streaming on TVs, followed by 21% on YouTube, 12% on Hulu, and 8% on Amazon cnet.com
Average U.S. Broadband Consumer"s Monthly Data Use Surged 27% in 2019 to 340 GB multichannel.com
Sluggish lowband 5G from AT&T, T-Mobile raises the question: Why bother? lightreading.com
T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Makes Way For Dish Wireless denver.cbslocal.com
How the T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Legitimizes Monopoly washingtonmonthly.com
read comment(s)

After Years in the Cold, Satellite Is Hot Again lightreading.com
Is Universal Service Fund in Peril? A Close Look at the Budget - and Where the Money Comes From telecompetitor.com
Promise to spread high-speed internet remains elusive washingtontimes.com
Mobile devices are pushing web traffic to new heights techspot.com
If the T-Mobile, Sprint deal closes, Dish will need a retail strategy fiercewireless.com
Facebook says it has a better way to deploy fiber-optic cable lightwaveonline.com
Here are the 5G plans you can check out right now androidcentral.com
Verizon launches first international 5G production lab in London campaignlive.co.uk
Wireless Ventures Create Real Revenue for Cable multichannel.com
read comment(s)

White House rubbishes the idea that the U.S. will take control of Nokia and Ericsson neowin.net
T-Mobile"s TVision Called Out for Questionable Advertising After Charter Complaint lightreading.com
Feds spending billions trying to hook up rural America with high-speed internet washingtontimes.com
Tech Giants Seek Hong Kong Alternative After U.S. Blocks Data Cable taiwanenglishnews.com
AT&T CEO Says US Govt. Investment Into Nokia, Ericsson Is a Bad Idea lightreading.com
U.S., Europe could team up on 5G, but not if trade war under way reuters.com
Locast is the free TV streaming service that refuses to die digitaltrends.com
Sling TV celebrates its 5th anniversary by offering a month of streaming for just $5 androidcentral.com
Verizon CEO: 5G and Cloud Computing Combination Is So Transformative webpronews.com
We"re getting more spectrum perfect for 5G. Here"s why it"s interesting androidcentral.com
read comment(s)

J.D. Power: T-Mobile Tops on Wireless Customer Satisfaction telecompetitor.com
84% of U.S. Households to Subscribe to Broadband by Year End telecompetitor.com
T-Mobile Posts Another Record Quarter webpronews.com
Appeals court declines to reconsider a ruling upholding the FCC"s repeal of net neutrality rules, rejecting requests from over a dozen states and tech groups reuters.com
FCC announces proposals to pay satellite companies $9.7B to quickly free up C-band spectrum for 5G, and another $3.3B-$5.2B to pay for costs bloomberglaw.com
Musk s Starlink Likely To Go Public, Says COO ibtimes.com
400GbE-ready internet backbone launched across 120 countries fibre-systems.com
FuboTV Partners with Viasat to Bring vMVPD Service to Airplane Flights multichannel.com
ViacomCBS is building a new ad-supported streaming service that will build on CBS All Access, and an ad-free version that includes Showtime cnbc.com
read comment(s)

Report: Flawed FCC Broadband Availability Data Could Leave 20.7 Million People Unserved telecompetitor.com
AT&T expands its 5G network to 13 additional cities techspot.com
US Politicos Take 5G Bandwagon Down Dangerous Path lightreading.com
FCC takes another look at TV whitespaces for broadband convergedigest.com
Amazon might launch its game streaming service around the same time as the PS5 and new Xbox bgr.com
Hulu + Live TV Reaches 3.2M Subscribers, Now the Biggest vMVPD multichannel.com
States Blocking T-Mobile"s Deal Would Disrupt U.S. Merger Policy, DOJ Says bnnbloomberg.ca
Ookla Speedtest: Verizon s cellular network was fastest during the Super Bowl rcrwireless.com
Huawei Takes Legal Action Against Verizon Alleging Patent Infringement webpronews.com
read comment(s)

Google Fiber will no longer offer TV service to new customers, and is partnering with streaming service FuboTV, after adding YouTube TV in Dec venturebeat.com
Nvidia"s GeForce Now game streaming service launches from beta with Steam, Epic Games Store, Battle.net, and Uplay support, rivaling Google Stadia at $5/month theverge.com
T-Mobile, Sprint Working Together to Fight Spoofed Calls webpronews.com
Disney+ posts 26.5 million paid subscribers, beats estimates reuters.com
The White House says companies, including Dell, Microsoft, and AT&T, are working together to create an open standard for 5G tech to reduce reliance on Huawei softpedia.com
FCC s $9 Billion Rural 5G Fund Now Official telecompetitor.com
Elon Musk: Carriers "Greedy" in Quest for 5G Spectrum lightreading.com
Broadband Associations Push for Robocall "Safe Harbor" multichannel.com
Elon Musk"s SpaceX takes important step on path to providing internet to Australia abc.net.au
read comment(s)

Smaller Cable Companies Are Giving Up On Cable TV Altogether techdirt.com
Super Bowl Streaming Audience Lowest Since 2016 at 1.4M Viewers multichannel.com
Verizon, T-Mobile Butt Heads at Super Bowl lightreading.com
OneWeb joins the satellite Internet gold rush this week arstechnica.com
Hulu Live and YouTube TV Exceptionally Strong in Q4, Drive Up Miserable Pay TV Cord Cutting Numbers multichannel.com
House Republicans introduce resolution condemning UK"s decision to allow Huawei in 5G networks thehill.com
Blackberry dead (again) - Blackberry s Android smartphones will stop being sold in August 2020 9to5google.com
Sprint partners Rocket Fiber for network expansion in Detroit capacitymedia.com
Steam Just Broke Its Previous Record Of Highest Concurrent Users player.one
read comment(s)

Ajit Pai says FCC has concluded that one or more wireless carriers apparently violated federal law by selling user location data and will consider fines vice.com
Charter to Add 5G to the Menu in Q1, Will "Likely" Be a Participant in CBRS Auction lightreading.com
Broadband Affordability Research: 61% of U.S. Can Get Low-Cost Service But Will This Last? telecompetitor.com
5G Now Carrying 21% of All Mobile Traffic in South Korea lightreading.com
Broadband, Wireless Drive Charter Q4: Spectrum Mobile crosses 1M-subscriber milestone; video sub losses rise multichannel.com
T-Mobile to FCC: you have the power to free up much needed mid-range spectrum multichannel.com
HBO Max Has Already Cost AT&T $1.2 Billion fool.com
YouTube TV vs AT&T TV NOW vs Vidgo vs Philo vs Hulu vs Sling TV vs FuboTV - February 2020 cordcuttersnews.com
Sling Enlists an Old Video Icon and Beefs Up Deals to Pursue PlayStation Vue Subscribers telecompetitor.com
read comment(s)

AT&T, Comcast Dramatically Cut Network Spending Despite Net Neutrality Repeal techdirt.com
FCC commits $20.4 billion to help close the rural digital divide engadget.com
Americans spent $170 on average on streaming TV services in 2019, a 30% increase since 2017, when they spent $130 nytimes.com
Senator Cantwell wants 5G spectrum auction to fund rural broadband expansion geekwire.com
C Spire Teams With Plume to Improve In-Home WiFi lightreading.com
California court orders Apple to pay $838M and Broadcom to pay $270M for infringing California Institute of Technology patents on Wi-Fi transmissions bloomberg.com
How Will 5G Play in Super Bowl lightreading.com
Fios Sheds 51K Video Customers in Q4 multichannel.com
Verizon subscriber numbers get Disney+ boost, but profits miss estimates foxbusiness.com
Apple is officially done rebuilding its maps in the US engadget.com
read comment(s)