AT&T praises itself after getting caught taking too much money from FCC program arstechnica.com
Altice USA aims to fix broken video model with more flexible pay-TV options lightreading.com
Donald Trump And Joe Rogan Think Elon Musk s Starlink Is Akin To Magic Pixie Dust techdirt.com
WISPs want more fiber, getting to it is a challenge fierce-network.com
AST SpaceMobile Successfully Unfolds First Satellites telecompetitor.com
Nintendo launches Nintendo Music, an iOS and Android app that lets Switch Online subscribers stream or download gaming tunes from Nintendo titles theverge.com
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Pentagon s commercial satellite internet services program soars to $13 billion spacenews.com
Comcast, Charter Sue FTC Over Efforts To Make Canceling Services Easier techdirt.com
Election 2024: How will the candidates regulate big tech? engadget.com
Netflix, Disney, Comcast, Google, Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount to Spend Combined $126 Billion on Content in 2024 thewrap.com
Old issue haunts UScellular s latest spectrum deals fierce-network.com
5G customer growth surprises - again - in Q3 lightreading.com
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Turmoil continues to swirl around Verizon-Frontier deal lightreading.com
Your ISP Now Requires A Broadband Nutrition Label To Clearly Show You You re Being Ripped Off techdirt.com
The fiber race gets a billion-dollar boost with Corning-AT&T deal fierce-network.com
Microsoft accuses Google of secretly funding regulatory astroturf campaign engadget.com
Instagram Throttles Video Quality for Less Popular Videos webpronews.com
Verizon picks up tab on an ongoing, three-year project to upgrade the Scranton, Pennsylvania fiber network telecompetitor.com
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Are Data Caps Actually An Issue? Not Really, Says OpenVault - Most Are Unlikely To Exceed Their Usage Limit fierce-network.com
Cable Giants Start Offering Free Streaming Subscriptions In Acknowledgement They Lost The Cord Cutting War techdirt.com
Verizon Continues Fiber Push, Beats Fixed Wireless Target, Awaits Frontier Acquisition telecompetitor.com
DoJ to support injunction against Disney-Fox-WBD sports streaming JV lightreading.com
T-Mobile customer goes through hell after the phones she traded in go missing phonearena.com
Google Is Reportedly Developing An AI That Will Take Over The User s Computer Browser To Complete Certain Tasks, And Is Codenamed Project Jarvis wccftech.com
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"I am still alive": Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing "lifetime" price lock arstechnica.com
Fans who use IPTV to illegally stream sport at risk of "10 year prison sentence" as organised crime warning sent sportbible.com
FCC Issues Inquiry Designed to Improve Provider Customer Service telecompetitor.com
AT&T vs. Verizon: Who"s leading the convergence race? lightreading.com
Fractured Streaming So Bad Injured NFL Players Turn To Illicit Streams To Watch Their Own Teams techdirt.com
A US federal judge allows 150+ cases from school districts against Meta, Google, and Snap alleging their apps contributed to students" mental health crisis bloomberg.com
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Surprise! Streaming Subscription Fees Have Been Rising While Content Quality Is Dropping arstechnica.com
Intelsat broadband satellite mysteriously blows to pieces while in its geostationary orbit futurism.com
Verizon reveals new roadmap for 5G home internet and fiber expansion phonearena.com
Starlink Seeks Changes from FCC to Enable Gigabit Service telecompetitor.com
T-Mobile"s network interferes with NextWave"s network, FCC finds lightreading.com
New GSMA report shows mobile internet connectivity continues to grow globally but barriers for 3.45 billion unconnected people remain gsma.com
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T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users arstechnica.com
Charter eyes bigger streaming bundle to curb pay-TV cord-cutting lightreading.com
Lawsuit: a civil rights organization says a Virginia town installing Flock cameras violated the Fourth Amendment, making citizens moving untracked "impossible" 404media.co
Disney no longer lets new and returning customers sign up for and buy subscriptions to Hulu or Disney+ through Apple"s App Store, avoiding Apple"s cut macrumors.com
Best media streaming devices of 2024: From budget to premium techhive.com
Internet Archive hacked again: We know because the hacker responded to our email to the Archive mashable.com
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Apartment buildings more than 10 years old have some big broadband problems fierce-network.com
Benchmark Study Finds Resilience Despite Challenges Among Rural Telcos in 2023 telecompetitor.com
How Verizon"s $1B UScellular spectrum deal affects EchoStar"s Dish lightreading.com
The FCC Is "Looking Into" Shitty, Technically Unnecessary Broadband Usage Caps techdirt.com
Turns out Redbox"s derelict kiosks are a big red security risk engadget.com
Cox hawks Xumo Stream Boxes to broadband subs for $60 lightreading.com
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6G speed test hits 938 Gbps throughput that downloads 20 movies in a second phonearena.com
Acrimony as UK Parliament Debate Use of Telegraph Poles for Broadband ispreview.co.uk
The FCC issues new rules that will require all mobile phones sold in the US to be compatible with hearing aids, after a transition period engadget.com
Verizon: Frontier needs mobile to compete with cable lightreading.com
Disney Raises Prices for Disney Plus, Hulu, and ESPN Plus Again cnet.com
Google Chrome is disabling one of the world s biggest ad blockers - what you need to know tomsguide.com
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Chorus of voices object to Frontier s sale to Verizon fierce-network.com
NTCA Joins Effort to Ask Supreme Court to Hear Universal Service Fund Appeal telecompetitor.com
FTC click to cancel rule seeks to end free trial traps, sneaky auto-enrollments arstechnica.com
More Layoffs At Paramount As Streaming Media Giant s "Merger Synergies" Continue techdirt.com
Brazilian authorities have arrested a hacker, known as USDoD, who they allege is linked to breaches of National Public Data, the FBI"s InfraGard, and others bleepingcomputer.com
T-Mobile US claims 5G RedCap first with TCL dongle launch mobileworldlive.com
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FCC sets its sights on data caps lightreading.com
Surprise! Rural Organizations Still Find Flaws in Broadband Reporting telecompetitor.com
SpaceX tells FCC it has a plan to make Starlink about 10 times faster arstechnica.com
$8B of the $10B Capital Projects Fund is being spent for broadband fierce-network.com
Frontier-Verizon deal faces shareholder static lightreading.com
Spotify expands its music video test and once again excludes the US from the beta phonearena.com
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The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising techcrunch.com
NAD Recommends Charter Discontinue or Modify Spectrum Ads telecompetitor.com
AT&T, Verizon, Lumen face questions over Chinese hack lightreading.com
How the Next Generation of MVNOs Can Dominate the Telecom Industry fierce-network.com
Vodafone, Three merger creates a network-sharing nightmare lightreading.com
Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78 arstechnica.com
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5th Circuit rules ISP should have terminated Internet users accused of piracy arstechnica.com
While Barron"s says T-Mobile needs to copy Verizon and AT&T in fiber, it already has in wireless phonearena.com
Wireless Internet Providers Reap High Satisfaction Ratings in Yet Another Study telecompetitor.com
An early look at what 6G might look like in the US lightreading.com
Xbox Cloud Gaming may finally let you stream your non-Game Pass purchases soon engadget.com
Where"s the broadband workforce? Waiting for the money fierce-network.com
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Verizon has second big outage in as many weeks - here s what we know tomsguide.com
NTIA Receives 700 Applications for $1B Competitive Grant Program Funding telecompetitor.com
Lycamobile settles with T-Mobile, reportedly heads to AT&T lightreading.com
The true cost of game piracy: 20 percent of revenue, according to a new study arstechnica.com
Microsoft plans to let US users buy and play Xbox games from the Xbox app on Android from November, after a judge ordered Google to open up the Play Store theverge.com
T-Mobile US employs test sat service in hurricane response mobileworldlive.com
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FCC Fines T-Mobile $31.5 Million After Carrier Was Hacked 8 Times In 5 Years techdirt.com
Cable could return to broadband sub growth in 2026 lightreading.com
AT&T"s bold new CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) proposal isn"t making friends fierce-network.com
Amazon says Apple TV+ will be available as a $9.99/month subscription add-on in Prime Video Channels later this month in the US, joining 100+ streaming services bloomberg.com
The Internet Archive suffers massive data breach affecting tens of millions of users betanews.com
"Dangerous": FCC puts DeSantis on notice over threats to prosecute Florida TV stations rawstory.com
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US Cellular tells the FCC it"s doomed without the T-Mobile acquisition androidauthority.com
TikTok"s troubles continue with lawsuits from 14 states alleging it"s harmful to children phonearena.com
U.S. government proposing historic breakup of Google to end its internet search monopoly fortune.com
Is More Unlicensed Spectrum the Best Path Forward? telecompetitor.com
How the election may impact broadband policy lightreading.com
More than 237K Comcast customers had their security compromised fierce-network.com
Amazon Ratchets Up Enshittifying Prime Video After Public Shrugs At Initial Ads techdirt.com/2
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Experts have long warned secure backdoor systems are impossible; Salt Typhoon"s reported hack of US ISPs" wiretap systems exemplifies the risks of backdoors techcrunch.com
American Water, the largest water utility in US, is targeted by a cyberattack techxplore.com
Epic v. Google: a US judge orders Google to open the Play Store to rivals from November 1 for three years, distribute third-party stores within Play, and more theverge.com
A US federal judge has given the FTC the green light to pursue antitrust claims against Amazon thehill.com
T-Mobile Top Wireless Carrier Among Small, Large Businesses: J.D. Power telecompetitor.com
MoneyGram confirms crooks grabbed customers personal and transaction data cybernews.com
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Chinese Hackers Breach AT&T, Verizon Networks In Major Wiretap Data Theft Putting US National Security At Risk: Report benzinga.com
ISPs Betrayed Over Pirate Site-Blocking Threats, The Reckoning Will Be Invisible torrentfreak.com
T-Mobile staff forced to deal with angry customers after promo terms change overnight - New terms lower the trade-in discounts available to military and veteran officers, first responders, and customers older than 55 phonearena.com
Connecticut, North Dakota, Maryland the Best States for Broadband Speed: Ookla Report telecompetitor.com
Huawei 5G products not hurt by US sanctions - sources lightreading.com
FCC Has Temporarily Given License To T-Mobile And SpaceX To Launch Their Satellite Communication Service In Helene-Hit Areas wccftech.com
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In the meantime, please feel free to post links to and discuss any interesting broadband and tech news you stumble across during my break here in this thread.
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DirecTV, Dish Are Close to Clinching Merger Agreement bloomberg.com
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2426, which forces digital stores to tell customers they are getting a revocable license when "buying" digital media theverge.com
Starlink crosses 4M customers; it started beta services in October 2020 and hit 1M subscribers in December 2022, 2M in September 2023, and 3M in May 2024 techcrunch.com
5G Now 34% of all North American Cellular Connections, Driven by IoT Growth telecompetitor.com
Comcast ready to hit the accelerator on DOCSIS 4.0 lightreading.com
Google TV is now winning the TV race - and it has blown past Roku tomsguide.com
FCC fines political consultant $6 million for deepfake robocalls engadget.com
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