New York starts enforcing $15 broadband law that ISPs tried to kill arstechnica.com
T-Mobile Once Again Strong Overall, Verizon Excels in 5G: Report telecompetitor.com
Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile take on California wildfires lightreading.com
Texas sues Allstate and its subsidiary Arity, accusing the insurer of illegally collecting and selling data about people"s driving behavior through mobile apps nytimes.com
TikTok says reports of possible sale to Elon Musk are "pure fiction" lbc.co.uk
UK floats ransomware payout ban for public sector theregister.com
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Supreme Court likely to uphold TikTok ban, favoring security over speech fortune.com
T-Mobile Once Again Strong Overall, Verizon Excels in 5G: Report telecompetitor.com
Prepare For A Whole Bunch Of Pointless, Harmful Mergers In Streaming By Media Executives All Out Of Original Ideas techdirt.com
Telcos are technical debt hoarders and a clean out is needed fierce-network.com
T-Mobile, Starlink enable satellite texting early for people impacted by Los Angeles fires androidcentral.com
Starlink has disrupted Kenya"s existing ISP industry since its launch in July 2023, forcing legacy providers to lower prices and increase internet speeds restofworld.org
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Now Telecoms Are Fighting Among Themselves Over Who Lies More About Unlimited Data techdirt.com
A US judge rules that Google must face a class action claiming Google collected users" personal data from their phones after they turned off Web & App Activity reuters.com
A hack of location data firm Gravy reveals Candy Crush, Tinder, and thousands of other apps are being used to steal user location data; apps may not even know wired.com
2024 was a record year for commercial cyber attacks itpro.com
Disney+ getting a massive upgrade that can change the way you watch t3.com
US Supreme Court to hear TikTok ban case economictimes.indiatimes.com
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Consumers Cut Streaming Services In 2024 After Endless Price Hikes And Enshittification techdirt.com
NAD Supports Charter Regarding "Unlimited" Spectrum Data Claims telecompetitor.com
TV broadcasters to plunder some of 5G"s fat lightreading.com
After embarrassing blunder, AT&T promises bill credits for future outages arstechnica.com
AT&T and Verizon tipped to roll out 5G SA - for real this time - in 2025 fierce-network.com
Hackers Claim To Have Compromised Data Broker Used By U.S. Government To Dodge Warrants techdirt.com
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Washington state"s AG sues T-Mobile, claiming the carrier failed to adequately secure sensitive personal info of 2M+ residents in an August 2021 cyberattack geekwire.com
The White House launches the US Cyber Trust Mark, a voluntary cybersecurity safety label for internet-connected consumer devices, after unveiling it in 2023 bleepingcomputer.com
US pay TV sheds 305K subs in Q3 amid signs of "a little moderation" - study lightreading.com
US adds Tencent to blacklist over suspected ties to Chinese military independent.co.uk
2024 was worst year on record for commercial cyberattacks totaltele.com
YouTube Premium could be on your next Delta flight, which AI will make sure you don"t miss phonearena.com
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Wireless is apparently the new copper lightreading.com
Forget telco to techco - operators now want to be AI giants fierce-network.com
Not willing to give T-Mobile an easy pass, attorney sues for avoidable harm to customers phonearena.com
Fox Corp says Tubi surpassed 97M MAUs and 10B streaming hours in 2024, but doesn"t share how it calculates MAUs; 77% of Tubi viewers say they do not have cable deadline.com
Hulu + Live TV and Fubo are merging, with a subscriber count that rivals YouTube TV 9to5google.com
Whoops: Volkswagen Leaks Sensitive Data Of 800,000 Electric Vehicle Owners techdirt.com
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A look at Chinese hackers" attacks on US infrastructure and telecoms; sources: Charter, Consolidated Communications, and Windstream networks were also breached wsj.com
Amazon plans to launch satellite broadband service in Britain commsbusiness.co.uk
Net neutrality gutted by Federal appeals court extremetech.com
Rural Customers Nearing 90% Access to 100 Mbps Downstream: NTCA Report telecompetitor.com
There"s a new kind of convergence in town: Wi-Fi + private cellular fierce-network.com
Italy is in advanced talks for a 1.5B, five-year SpaceX deal to provide the government with secure telecom services, Europe"s largest such project bloomberg.com
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The US arrests a US Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, who sold sensitive customer call records stolen from AT&T and Verizon in the Snowflake hack krebsonsecurity.com
China-backed hackers breached US Treasury workstations cnn.com
2025 preview: Will pay-TV finally hit rock bottom? lightreading.com
Trump told SCOTUS he plans to make a deal to save TikTok arstechnica.com
The sensitive information of of over 800K VW, Audi, Seat, and Skoda EV customers, including GPS coordinates, was exposed on an unprotected AWS database for months before being reported carscoops.com
NFL Fans Are Raging After Two Major Illegal Streaming Sites Unexpectedly Shut Down Before Playoffs totalprosports.com

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AT&T and Verizon say their networks are now clear after the Salt Typhoon intrusion; AT&T says a few individuals of foreign intelligence interest were targeted bloomberg.com
The Year Democrats Lost the Internet wired.com
Will cable broadband rebound or merely stabilize? lightreading.com
Copyright Industry Wants To Apply Automated Blocking To The Internet s Core Routers techdirt.com
FTC launches probe of Microsoft over bundling arstechnica.com
The US plans to update HIPAA with new cybersecurity rules to protect patients" private data, including mandatory encryption and multifactor authentication reuters.com
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AT&T can substitute wireless home phone for copper, FCC says seattletimes.com
Will cable broadband rebound or merely stabilize? lightreading.com
Fiber deployments top another record in 2024 fierce-network.com
CWA says AT&T is poised to repeat the bad behavior it showed during Trump"s first term phonearena.com
TP-Link Routers Could Be Banned Next Year. Are They Actually Dangerous? cnet.com
Google files proposal to counter DOJ plan to sell Chrome androidcentral.com
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Space-Age Mobile Is Here To Connect Billions And Unlock Global Markets forbes.com
Crown Castle, Lumen reportedly closer to selling their fiber networks lightreading.com
$2 per megabyte: AT&T mistakenly charged customer $6,223 for 3.1GB of data arstechnica.com
Altice USA exec thinks video is the edge cable needs fierce-network.com
Some Android customers with Metro By T-Mobile can now pay their bills by playing games phonearena.com
The best live TV streaming services to cut cable in 2025 engadget.com
Google TV users are getting even more free channels in time for the holidays techradar.com
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Broken USF May Require a Congressional Solution telecompetitor.com
Trump is expected to free lower 3GHz for 5G lightreading.com
Trump FCC chair wants to revoke broadcast licenses - the 1st Amendment might stop him arstechnica.com
Not Even Sesame Street Is Safe From David Zaslav And Time Warner Discovery Incompetence techdirt.com
Fiber deployments top another record in 2024 fierce-network.com
Telecom/Broadband M&A 2024: A Big Year for the Big Providers, Private Equity telecompetitor.com
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Congress approves $3B in funding for a project to remove Huawei and ZTE equipment from US networks nationwide; Trump"s FCC started the initiative in 2020 washingtonpost.com
Telecom/Broadband M&A 2024: A Big Year for the Big Providers, Private Equity telecompetitor.com
Cox, Amazon, AT&T to get BEAD grants in Nevada lightreading.com
A look at the quickly disappearing web, as digital decay and link rot erase all kinds of media; a Pew study says 38% of webpages accessible in 2013 are now gone theverge.com
Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to TikTok ban fortune.com
US eyes ban on TP-Link routers amid cybersecurity concerns csoonline.com
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SCOTUS rejects ISPs" challenge to a New York law requiring ISPs to offer $15 or $20/month services to low-income users by not revisiting a lower court ruling arstechnica.com
Broadband prices drop as speeds and competition climb lightreading.com
Congress Still Trying To Fund Plan To Rip Huawei Gear Out Of U.S. Telecom Networks techdirt.com
Verizon and Nvidia"s new 5G + AI combo could bring big things to your phone phonearena.com
The US ITC says smartphones made by Lenovo"s Motorola infringe on Ericsson"s 5G patents, which could lead to an import ban; a final ruling is set for April 2025 reuters.com
LastPass breach comes back to haunt users as hackers steal $12 million in two days itpro.com
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T-Mobile users can try Starlink-enabled phone service for free during beta arstechnica.com
YouTube TV Raises Prices Again, Days After Hinting It Wouldn t techdirt.com
AT&T user"s erroneous $6,223 bill is reminder that AutoPay can wipe you out phonearena.com
T-Mobile answers some D2D questions lightreading.com
Program Consolidation, Audits, Alternative Technologies Could Be Among BEAD Changes telecompetitor.com
Trump meets with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at Mar-a-Lago, the same day that the company asks the Supreme Court to block the law that could ban the app nbcnews.com
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US officials: hackers likely accessed the personal data of hundreds of thousands of Rhode Islanders, and there"s a "high probability" sensitive info was stolen nytimes.com
AT&T"s copper retirement goals are "realistic" - analyst lightreading.com
AT&T Refuses To Upgrade Millions Of DSL Customers To Fiber Despite Untold Billions In Taxpayer Subsidies And Government Favors techdirt.com
Rural broadband loves these small but important regulatory wins fierce-network.com
The UK"s Ofcom says the Online Safety Act, passed in 2023 to govern illegal material on internet platforms, has taken effect, and plans to expand it in 2025 bloomberg.com
US court rejects TikTok request to temporarily halt pending US ban voanews.com
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Report: AT&T, Verizon aren t notifying most victims of Chinese call-records hack arstechnica.com
Vodafone and Three merger will further decimate UK telco jobs lightreading.com
Trump FCC Commissioners, Cable Lobby, Use Lazy Soup And Coffee Metaphors To Defend Shitty Broadband Usage Caps techdirt.com
T-Mobile accused of "illegally" charging customers a hidden fee thenewstribune.com
Verizon is using 5G network slicing to offer better video calling - for a price theverge.com
YouTube TV subscription to get costlier starting January 2025 neowin.net
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Charter CEO: We need to do more to tell consumers that cable delivers better performance and reliability than fixed wireless access lightreading.com
Vodafone Agreement With AST SpaceMobile Enables Space-Based Cellular Broadband Service telecompetitor.com
T-Mobile"s CEO said that its only used 60% of its 2.5 GHz spectrum for 5G so far fierce-network.com
The FCC opens all 1,200 megahertz of the 6GHz band for unlicensed use by very-low-power devices, citing growth in wearables, AR/VR, and other cutting-edge tech tvtechnology.com
Meta says it is "99% of the way" to resolving a global outage that hit Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, starting at approximately 12:40pm ET bleepingcomputer.com
Epic s dream is starting to come true - its store will be preinstalled on millions of Android phones theverge.com
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EchoStar, CWA, others move against T-Mobile"s UScellular purchase lightreading.com
FCC Responds to telecoms attack dubbed worst in our nation s history informationsecuritybuzz.com
Senate Passes ACCESS Rural America Act, Intended to Ease Rural Providers Burdens telecompetitor.com
Apple hit with $1.2B lawsuit after killing controversial CSAM-detecting tool arstechnica.com
FBI Official Reluctantly Touts Encryption Since US Telecom Providers Are Still Compromised By Chinese Hackers techdirt.com
Google requests the US government to shatter Microsoft"s exclusive cloud deal with OpenAI windowscentral.com
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Cable ISPs compare data caps to food menus: Don t make us offer unlimited soup arstechnica.com
Comcast expects to shed another 100K broadband subs in Q4 lightreading.com
T-Mobile: What race? Convergence is already here fierce-network.com
Non-Infringing Sites As Collateral Damage In Music Industry s War On Stream Ripping Sites techdirt.com
Emergency motion: TikTok asks US court to delay the January 19 ban phonearena.com
Britain approves 18bn Vodafone-Three mobile merger irishexaminer.com
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