Broadband Industry Tells FCC Their Customer Service Is Great, Nothing To See Here techdirt.com
AT&T targets 50M fiber locations by end of 2029 lightreading.com
US plan to protect consumers from data brokers faces dim future under Trump arstechnica.com
FCC, USAC: Be Wary of Providers Still Collecting ACP Data telecompetitor.com
The FBI and CISA give US telcos best practices to harden their systems against attacks, as senior US officials say Salt Typhoon hackers remain on their networks axios.com
Microsoft could pay up to $1.27 billion for overcharging its own customers who use rival cloud mspoweruser.com
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Supreme Court To Decide Whether Helping Poor Rural Americans Get Broadband Is Unconstitutional techdirt.com
On BEAD and rural broadband, don"t lose sight of the goal lightreading.com
These MVNO pioneers want locked phones to go away fierce-network.com
T-Mobile and AT&T"s hypocrisy come to fore during the holiday shopping season phonearena.com
The CFPB proposes a rule to limit data brokers" ability to sell Americans" personal and financial info, after the National Public Data breach earlier in 2024 theverge.com
AT&T expects over $18 billion in free cash flow in 2027, driven by 5G and fiber expansionAT&T expects over $18 billion in free cash flow in 2027, driven by 5G and fiber expansion yahoo.com
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FCC approves Starlink plan for cellular phone service, with some limits arstechnica.com
Biden FCC Boss Rosenworcel To Step Down, Can t Be Bothered To Express Alarm At What Comes Next techdirt.com
Cruz hates a lot of the Infrastructure Investment law, including BEAD fierce-network.com
Telco security is a dumpster fire and everyone"s getting burned theregister.com
Telstra snaps up Boost Australia for $94M lightreading.com
Cyber Monday subscription deals for 2024: The best sales on Disney+, Peacock, Hulu, MasterClass and others engadget.com
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ISPs Say Their "Excellent Customer Service" Is Why Users Don t Switch Providers arstechnica.com
The FCC approves a license for SpaceX and T-Mobile to use Starlink to offer supplemental coverage from space in a bid to extend internet access to remote areas reuters.com
Charter Begins Deploying Wi-Fi 7 Routers for Spectrum Customers telecompetitor.com
SCOTUS to wade into USF fight, but fund still faces "existential threat" lightreading.com
Game console makers rethink selling more powerful machines, as performance improvements become less dramatic and consumers can"t tell between 4K and 8K graphics bloomberg.com
Huawei"s HarmonyOS NEXT in the Mate 70, 70 Pro, 70 Pro+, and X6 is its first fully self-developed OS that reportedly no longer uses open-source Android code cnbc.com
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DirecTV Terminates Dish Merger lightreading.com
Ted Cruz wants to overhaul $42B broadband program, nix low-cost requirement arstechnica.com/
Why Google"s Chrome monopoly won"t crack anytime soon theregister.com
Verizon"s latest DAS deployment isn t as lame as it sounds fierce-network.com
Who Runs the Internet? Misconceptions About ICANN icann.org
Australia"s proposed social media ban for kids is a 1950s solution to a 2024 problem androidcentral.com
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Universal Fiber Access Could Add $3T to U.S. Economy: Report telecompetitor.com
The plummeting value of 5G mmWave spectrum lightreading.com
FCC chairwoman announces departure, paving way for Republican majority arstechnica.com
Net Neutrality Is Dead As A Doornail Under Trump 2.0 techdirt.com
Microsoft President Brad Smith calls on Donald Trump to "push harder" against cyberattacks from Russia, China, and Iran amid a wave of state-sponsored hacks ft.com
With Trump as president, can TikTok in the U.S. survive? latimes.com
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Under Trump, Satellites Could Steal Fiber"s BEAD Bonanza lightreading.com
Comcast to ditch cable TV networks in partial spinoff of NBCUniversal assets arstechnica.com
Press Glosses Over Fact Trump s FCC Pick Will Decimate Consumer Protection, Media Consolidation Limits techdirt.com
T-Mobile to Appeal NAD Finding on Ad AT&T Complained About telecompetitor.com
Streamlabs: Twitch accounted for 82.3% of total Q3 streaming hours, with YouTube Gaming in second place at 5.6%; Kick grew 204% from Q2 2023 to Q3 2024 tubefilter.com
US looks to force Google to sell Chrome telecoms.com
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T-Mobile"s foreign owner to trigger review of UScellular deal lightreading.com
A year after ditching waitlist, Starlink says it is "sold out" in parts of US arstechnica.com
Streaming TV Enshittification Will Continue Until Morale Improves techdirt.com
Sony launches cloud streaming on the PlayStation Portal in beta, letting PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers in some countries stream select PS5 games theverge.com
Netflix s Poor Streaming Quality Of Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson Fight Has Resulted In A Class-Action Lawsuit, But Streaming Executive Says The Event Was a Huge Success wccftech.com
Thieves reportedly use AT&T data to track and steal iPhones mashable.com
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US lawyers will reportedly try to force Google to sell Chrome and unbundle Android theverge.com
Trump"s health secretary pick Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Jr. has said wireless tech might make you sick lightreading.com
Pointless DirecTV, Dish Merger Already On The Edge Of Collapse techdirt.com
Starlink Deal Targets Enterprises With LEO Satellite SD-WAN telecompetitor.com
Two Baltic Sea internet cables, connecting Lithuania with Sweden and Finland with Germany, were suddenly disrupted, sparking concerns of Russian sabotage cnn.com
A lot of people are mistaking Elon Musk s Starlink satellites for UAPs arstechnica.com
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Trump names FCC commissioner Brendan Carr as FCC chair bloomberg.com
Is satellite broadband good enough to deliver internet for all? fierce-network.com
Netflix says 60M households watched the Paul vs. Tyson boxing bout live around the world, peaking at 65M concurrent streams theverge.com
Upstream Broadband Traffic Continues Disproportionate Growth: OpenVault telecompetitor.com
China calls for unified 6G standard lightreading.com
Inside Big Tech s Bid to Sink the Online Kid Safety Bill: Tech giants and their allies lean on culture-war issues to splinter bipartisan support for the bill wsj.com
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• Charter strikes deal to acquire Liberty Broadband lightreading.com
• Broadband data consumption growing, but pace of growth is slowing lightreading.com
• Jeff Bezos Space Company Joins SpaceX To Win Major Phone Satellite Internet Contract wccftech.com
• Supreme Court Helps AT&T, Verizon Avoid Accountability For Spying On Your Every Movement techdirt.com
• Cyberattack on US Telecommunications uncovered as part of larger Chinese surveillance operation aninews.in
• Bluesky adds 1 million users since US election as people seek alternatives to Elon Musk s X economictimes.com
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If You Like Being Ripped Off By Comcast, You ll LOVE Trump s Likely New FCC Boss techdirt.com
FBI and CISA: Chinese hackers breached multiple US telecom companies, compromising the "private communications" of US officials and stealing customer call data bleepingcomputer.com
UK consumer rights group Which? launches a legal claim against Apple, seeking 3B in compensation, alleging that Apple locked 40M UK users into iCloud services techcrunch.com
Australia plans to enact laws imposing a "digital duty of care" on big tech, which would make companies liable for citizens" safety online bloomberg.com
AT&T opens the door on its copper network shutdown lightreading.com
More Spyware, Fewer Rules: What Trump s Return Means for US Cybersecurity wired.com
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EchoStar removes going concern disclosure, but DirecTV deal in jeopardy lightreading.com
The Ten Airports with the Fastest Free Wi-Fi Are telecompetitor.com
Record labels unhappy with court win, say ISP should pay more for user piracy arstechnica.com
How Italy became an unexpected spyware hub therecord.media
Amazon is shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported streaming service launched in 2019 under the IMDb brand, and plans to move the content to Prime Video variety.com
Netflix"s ad-supported tier hits 70 million users, nearly doubling from about six months earlier thehindu.com
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Verizon, AT&T tell courts: FCC can t punish us for selling user location data arstechnica.com
Cable One tests pay-as-you-go Internet option, stays on the mobile sidelines lightreading.com
Boost Mobile says it s ready to rumble with big carriers fierce-network.com
Verizon to comply with the BBB National Advertising Division s recommendation that it discontinue or modify claims made in advertising about its satellite-supported texting telecompetitor.com
Apple plans a smart home IP camera and aims for 10M+ annual shipments, with production scheduled for 2026 medium.com
Verizon Messages (Message+) Is Shutting Down In December webpronews.com
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UScellular to Sell Spectrum Licenses to AT&T for $1.018B telecompetitor.com
The FBI is investigating whether China used its access to Verizon networks to infect the iPhones of staff of a US presidential campaign forbes.com
Data traffic growth or decline - there"s no upside for telecom lightreading.com
What the Trump win means for the FCC and telecom policy fierce-network.com
Australia plans to introduce legislation that would ban children under 16 from using social media, including those who already have accounts or parental consent abc.net.au
Max is about to put a price on password sharing phonearena.com
6G talk is getting old eeworldonline.com
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Net Neutrality Heads Back To Court; Corrupt Supreme Court Could Dismantle U.S. Broadband Consumer Protection techdirt.com
What a Trump victory means for tech: antitrust woes die down, except for Google, TikTok survives, AI progress accelerates, social media shifts right, and more nytimes.com
Cellular Providers Leverage Q3 Phone Promotions in Battle for Customers telecompetitor.com
Frontier adds record fiber subs as shareholder vote looms lightreading.com
Canada orders TikTok"s business in the country to be dissolved, citing national security risks, but says it is not blocking Canadians" access to the app reuters.com
T-Mobile deploys private 5G for Jacksonville shuttle service rcrwireless.com
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T-Mobile is breaking world records in upload speeds with new 5G DC tech androidauthority.com
Suspect arrested in Snowflake data-theft attacks affecting millions arstechnica.com
Bell s purchase of Ziply could disrupt the Verizon-Frontier deal fierce-network.com
Comcast Introduces New Cloud TV Platform for Media and Entertainment Companies telecompetitor.com
How the Salt Typhoon hackers breached US telecommunication infrastructure to carry out targeted espionage against the US for at least eight months wsj.com
Apple is offering $10 million to the Indonesian government to unban iPhones neowin.net
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Telecoms Bankroll More Misleading Attacks On Community Broadband Networks techdirt.com
Canada"s BCE to acquire US internet firm Ziply for $3.6 bln reuters.com
How hackers used infostealer malware to breach AT&T, Ticketmaster, Santander, EA, and more, as global law enforcement tries to shut down the growing industry wired.com
Apple"s satellite ambitions get $1.1B bigger lightreading.com
NTIA Announces Approval of Eleven States Digital Equity Capacity Grant Applications telecompetitor.com
T-Mobile plans to use OpenAI"s tech for a customer service bot slated for 2025 that can refer to customer-specific data, and will pay $100M over three years theinformation.com
CMA "provisionally" accepts Vodafone and Three s merger remedies mobileeurope.co.uk
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"Call of Duty" download, Amazon NFL stream drive record data usage at Comcast lightreading.com
Laptop, smartphone, and game console prices could soar after the election arstechnica.com
Study: 76% Of U.S. Residents Want Government To Do Something About Soaring Broadband Prices techdirt.com
Charter is delaying DOCSIS 4.0 again. What happened? fierce-network.com
Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover attacks arstechnica.com
Sixth Circuit Title II Oral Arguments on FCC Definitions Center on Major Questions telecompetitor.com
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Comcast would"ve returned to broadband sub growth without ACP impact lightreading.com
Finally, a sign of life for Europe s sovereign satellite Internet constellation arstechnica.com
SpaceX five satellite launches away from bringing T-Mobile users Direct-to-Cell service phonearena.com
Altice USA aims to fix broken video model with more flexible pay-TV options lightreading.com
Indonesia bans sales of Pixel smartphones, saying Google must comply with rules requiring 40% local content in smartphones, days after banning iPhone 16 techcrunch.com
VGHF, Libraries Lose Again On DMCA Exemption Request To Preserve Old Video Games techdirt.com
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