- New Bill Could Bridge Digital Divide in California - Perhaps at the expense of small
- FTC Ethics Questioned Over DTV News Release - Can FTC release news without disclosing
- IBM Software Could Enhance Mobile Browsing - Keep only the stuff you want on a web pa
- Monday Morning Links -
- Fight Child Porn By...Doing What You're Already Doing? - NY AG's words are but wind..
- Universal Service Fund Still Poorly Managed Money Pit - FCC still not really tracking
- Bell Canada: Throttling Aids Innovation - And nuclear waste is also a delicious noon-
- Fight Child Porn By...Doing Nothing Differently - NY Attorney General's words are but
- Palm Treo 800w Arrives - $249 after rebates with two-year contract
- Broadweave Buys Remnants of Eagle Broadband - Houston FTTH networks picked up for a c
- Xbox 360 Gets Netflix Streaming - More than 10,000 titles soon to be available...
- Apple: 1 Million 3G iPhones Sold In 3 Days - Despite last Friday's activation issues.
- Monday Evening Links -
- Fairpoint insists DSL Expansion On Track - Sats 75% of Vermont lines DSL ready by yea
- iPhone 3G Already Unlocked - While original iPhone unlocker offers up his two cents..
- Mark Cuban: Still Terrified of TV Competition - When HD isn't HD, and how HDNet CEO t
- Charter Launches New Rewards Gimmick - Does a 'free' iPod obliterate a lifetime of po
- Don't Fear The Bandwidth Apocalypse - Cable industry lobbies the FCC with some epic d
- British Telecom Announces Fiber To The Press Release - Assuming the British governmen
- Congress May Require NebuAD Be Opt-In - Though Congress will have to opt-out of lobby
- If You Block P2P Uploads, Are You Still Guilty? - The legal waters of P2P prosecution
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- YouTube, Viacom Agree To Protect Privacy - Your rick rolling exploits and other fetis
- The Sprint Acquisition That Wasn't - SK Telecom and Sprint just collaborating on tech
- Sony Launches PS3 Video Store - Somewhere an ISP exec dreams of per-byte billing
- The Worst iPhone Data Plans In The World - $982 16GB versions, 200MB caps and throttl
- Congress Now Eyes Embarq's Use Of NebuAD - Sends letter to company asking for more in
- NYC FiOS Deal To Get Final Approval Today - State PSC meeting to give deal final ok..
- NYC FiOS Deal Should See Final Approval Today - State PSC meeting to give deal final
- Cox Offers Upstream Powerboost - Some users seeing 4600kbps upstream....
- Echostar XI Successfully Launches - After Echostar II takes an interstellar dirt nap
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- Time Warner Cable Deploys 100Mbps FTTH - One catch: You've got to be wealthy and live
- NYC FiOS Deal Completed - FiOSTV to be made available 'in the coming weeks'
- Qwest: Things Are Just So Darn Competitive, We Must Raise Prices - Lawyers pushing ha
- Amazon Unveils Beta Video On Demand - Look Ma, Yet Another Broadband Video Service
- U-Verse Voice Launches In Indianapolis - Price point remains the same $30 (1,000 minu
- San Fran IT Admin Holds City Network Hostage - Gets arrested, won't give police the r
- Nation's Largest ISPs Crafting Fake National Broadband Policy - In order to make sure
- Thursday Evening Links -
- AT&T (Re-)Offers Free iPhone Wi-Fi - Sloppy launch much?
- Time Warner Cable Powerboost Hits San Antonio - Midwest powerboost coming in August..
- Latest Child Porn Fight Mostly Empty Rhetoric - While raising the specter of ISP as c
- NebuAd CEO Defends Snooping Tech - While Congress prepares to try and make such syste
- Time Warner Cable Powerboost Hits Texas - Midwest powerboost coming in August...
- AT&T's Sloppy Free iPhone Wi-Fi Non-Launch Continues... - By the time it actually lau
- Bell Canada Devises Backup Plan To Kill Wholesale Competitors - Worried about regulat
- AT&T's Latest VRAD Headache: Graffiti - City of New Haven now annoyed with box taggin
- Friday Evening Links -
- Friday Open Thread - You'll feel better once you've talked it out....
- Number of Free Wi-Fi Hotspots Growing Rapidly - Trend is towards offering free servic
- Napster Aims To Make Profits In Mobile Music Market - Is the company worth more dead
- WildBlue and HughesNet Battle For Customers - 50/50 market share expected by year's e
- Startup Brings Faster Speeds to Rural Southwest - AZ desert speeds up with signals br
- YouTube Videos Now Available On TiVo - Only about twenty percent of TiVo subscribers
- Rogers Uses Deep Packet Inspection for DNS Redirection - Is hijacking websites for ad
- EU Aims To Replace TV with Live BitTorrent Streaming - New technology increases bandw
- FCC May Require Telcos to Speed Up LNP - Wireless rules may start to apply to landlin
- XM/Sirius Merger Held Up In Face Of New Requirements - Stronger concessions on pricin
- Aircell Plans for LTE In-Flight By 2011 - Speeds of up to 300 Mbps coming soon to a p
- U-Verse Hits South Florida - Portions of Miami-Dade and Broward counties....
- OpenDNS Makes $20,000 Per Day - 7 billion DNS queries served daily
- CableLabs Greenlights SDV Adapters - TiVO users in SDV markets gets some good news...
- Time Warner Cable Using Fine Print To Hoist Caps On Customers - As company PR tests i
- Update Your Browser, Dummy - 40% of global users running outdated browser
- NY AG Will Sue Comcast If They Don't Pretend To Fight Child Porn - Hurry up and do ab
- Time Warner Cable Using Fine Print To Foist Caps On Customers - As company PR tests i
- Monday Evening Links -
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- How To Tether The 3G iPhone - Unofficially, anyway...
- AT&T Hints That Usage-Based Billing Is Coming - New, more specific speed tiers may co
- Time Warner Cable Stock Takes FiOS Hit - Can the cable company keep pace with big red
- Embarq: Selling User Browsing Data 'Empowers' Users - Sprint spinoff respnds to Cong
- Is Broadband A Civil Right? - FCC meeting a mish-mash of conflicting ideas with no co
- Comcast Still Struggling With Customer Support - The kind of communication problems T
- What's Your Favorite Newsgroup Provider? - Now that ISPs have stopped offering it as
- Verizon To Offer New FiOS Home Gateways - Actiontec MI424-WR and Westell UltraLine Se
- U.S. Has No Idea How Wired For Broadband It Is - Only ten of the nation's fifty state
- Google's Cerf: Baby Bells Act Like Tots Having Tantrums - Neutrality fight leaves bad
- New AT&T Broadband Customer Additions Take Nose Dive - Industry giant adds Just 46,00
- Comcast Giving Away Free Wiis - In limited markets....
- Wednesday Morning Links -
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- The Great Landline Exodus Continues - Baby bells expect continued heavy landline loss
- Wednesday Evening Links -
- East Coast Verizon Workers Authorize Strike - If negotiations fail to net new contrac
- Thursday Evening Links -
- Verizon FiOS Internet Video Beta - Company testing set-top service in cooperation wit
- Major DNS Flaw Finally Publicized - Exploits in the wild...
- U.S. Tenth In FTTH Penetration - 3.3 million total fiber to the home customers
- The Last Stand For Canadian Independent ISPs - Indie operators issue final filing to
- Embarq Offers More Data On NebuAD Trial - 26,000 users impacted, 15 opt out...
- Britain's Six Largest ISPs Forge Anti-Piracy Alliance - First step toward stronger, t
- All Markets Will See U-Verse Dual HD Streams By Q3 - AT&T announces progress during e
- Sprint Sells Towers To Pay Down Debt - Will then lease access to their own towers...
- Thursday Morning Links -
- Comcast Hit With Another Throttling Lawsuit - This time starring the individual who f
- Videotron Goes 'Fiber Deep' - Considered FTTH, embraced Aurora architecture instead..
- Comcast Quickly Tackled New DNS Threat - Contrary to some online tests of their netwo
- AT&T Whines About Sprint/Clearwire Merger - Nation's largest incumbent operator wants
- Georgia Town Picks Clearwire For Muni-WiMax - Thanks to $850,000 grant from the State
- Friday Morning Links -
- Philly Wi-Fi Network Use Skyrockets - Who knew that people prefer free services?
- FiOS Hits Grand Central Station On Monday - As Verizon introduces NYC residents to Fi
- Friday Open Thread - That's right, let it all out...
- Friday Evening Links -
- FCC Majority Plans To Punish Comcast For Throttling - Official vote pending announcem
- XM/Sirius Merger Finally Approved - New programming packages available soon
- Public Safety Groups Question E911 Achievements - Backtracking on hard-won rules rega
- Fresno Wants Citywide Wireless But Doesn’t Want To Pay - Lots of rules in the RFP but
- There Really Aren’t Any HDTV Standards - Should there be?
- Broadband in 3/4 of U.S. Homes By 2012 - According to the latest new report
- Live BitTorrent Streaming Gains in Popularity - EZTV launches new technology
- Qualcomm / Nokia Settle Patent Dispute - Fifteen-year deal works out for both sides
- Independent VoIP Companies Fade as Cable Takes Over - Cable succeeds in stealing land
- NextWave Sells $150 Million of Wireless Spectrum - T-Mobile is the big buyer
- TorrentSpy Hacker Spied on The Pirate Bay for MPAA - Illegally obtained information c
- PC Magazine Ranks VoIP, ISP Tech Support Satisfaction - Optimum Online comes out as a
- Telecom Immunity Opponents Running TV Ad - Grass-roots funded ad to shame politicians
- Verizon Hides Their Video Troubles - No longer lists total video subscribers on earni
- Fairpoint Picks Cisco For Network Upgrades - As company begins construction on $56 mi
- Tuesday Morning Links -
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- Earthlink Pins Future Hopes On......Dial-Up? - Now that they've tried absolutely ever
- FCC's McDowell: The Internet Will Stop If You Regulate Comcast - Guess we know which
- Carriers Show Off Their HD Channel Counts - FiOSTV Competitors Respond
- The FCC's Kindergarden-Approved Wireless Broadband - National plan involves potential
- Verizon Adds 54k Broadband Users In Q2 - Landline losses, broadband slows -- but wire
- FCC Rejects Qwest Forbearance Request - Who are you and what have you done with the F
- Locals Try To Keep Utopia Afloat - New citizen-advisory board (U-CAN) formed
- Sprint Launches Airave Service - Femtocell service expands to entire Sprint footprint
- AT&T Bans 3G P2P Users, But Hasn't Booted Any Yet - Company makes transparency a prio
- Vonage Picks Ex-AT&T Exec As New CEO - Promises to revamp 'customer experience'
- California Judge Declares Sprint ETFs Unlawful - Sprint may be forced to pay $73 mill
- Tuesday Evening Links -
- MPAA Offering New Legal Film Options Website - Claims that users can't tell differenc
- Frontier Imposes 5 GB Cap For DSL - Declares anything more 'unreasonable'
- Comcast Caves to Cuomo Legal Threat - Will join anti-porn coalition that doesn't chan
- The NebuAD Fight Heads To Canada - CIPPIC urges regulators to investigate user-tracki
- DSL Takes A Beating - Telcos post worst quarterly additions in DSL history
- Qwest Starts Reselling Verizon Wireless - Only to new customers, existing customers t
- Chinese Internet Access Still Censored During Olympics - IOC talked tough, then struc
- NYC Trying To Fill Broadband Black Holes - City committee still talking about options
- Comcast Beats Back Telcos In Q2 - Fourth largest phone company : 5.6 million custome
- MPAA: Public Can't Tell Between Pirated, Legal Content - Will launch new website to h
- Cablevision Rolling Out DOCSIS 3.0 - DOCSIS 3.0 and free Wi-Fi will cost them $100 p
- Dish Network To Offer 1080P HD Tomorrow - MPEG-4 DVR owners should see update soon...
- AT&T Backbone Sees 20% P2P Drop - Hulu, YouTube and other alternative video 'taking o
- Cablevision Holds Up To FiOS Competition - Q2 subscriber additions beat most analyst
- Was The FCC Comcast Investigation A Farce? - Editorial: More than meets the eye to Ma
- Verizon Wouldn't Let Doctor Use His Real Name - Because it contained the word 'shit'
- Bell Outlines Plan To Cap Wholesalers - Just in case regulators don't allow them to t
- Thursday Morning Links -
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- Time Warner Cable Powerboost Hits San Diego - Every market should be updated by the e
- Thursday Evening Links -
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- Own Your Own Last Mile Fiber - Neutral peering, customer owned fiber, and competition
- Verizon's Masturbating Salesman - Company suspends door to door promotions in Delawar
- Band Leaks Own Track, Blames Evil Pirates - When record labels think Internet users a
- Network Neutrality Debate Was, Still Is, About Greed - Op-Ed: debate shifts from Comc
- Comcast 'Protocol Agnostic' Throttling Tests Expand - Into one Colorado and two Flord
- Comcast Expands New Throttling Tests - As FCC ruling demands Comcast do nothing diffe
- EFF Offers New Tool To Test ISP Interference - New open source, command line software
- Verizon Unions Prep For Strike - Spend day picketing ahead of weekend negotiations de
- Friday Evening Links -
- Friday Open Thread - That's right, let it all out...
- MediaDefender Claims Anti-Piracy Services No Longer In Demand - Declining revenue sug
- The Year For FemtoCells is 2010 - Although businesses are starting to release femtoce
- Legislators Demand Info On User-Tracking Software - 33 companies asked to provide dee
- Law Passed Making Colleges Become Copyright Police - Higher Education Act of 2008 rea
- Airline Passengers One Step Closer To Phone-Free Flights - HANG UP Act passes through
- Verizon Union Workers Not Striking Yet - Negotiations appear to be successful
- Anti-Piracy Organization Targets Porn Websites - Cracking down on online pirate booty
- Half of San Francisco Now Covered by Meraki - Solar-powered wi-fi and muni WiMax in t
- NBC Warns Metered Broadband Could Hinder Olympics Viewing - Access to content is begi
- Monday Morning Links -
- Telus, Bell Sued For SMS/MMS Price Changes - Both companies now charging customers fo
- U-Verse Voice Hits San Antonio - In usual $40 or $30 monthly flavors...
- AT&T May Expand Rural WiMax Use - A few southern states sometime this year...
- AOL: One Step Closer To Dying - Dial-up, Ad business splintered, sale imminent
- Satellite TV Sees First Quarterly Subscriber Loss Ever - Dish loses 25,000 TV custome
- The Network DVR Lives! - Cablevision beats back entertainment industry on appeal
- Will Frontier Enforce New 5GB Cap? - Opposition grows to telco's definition of 'unrea
- Google's Cerf No Fan Of Caps, Metered Billing - Not surprising for a content-creation
- Monday Evening Links -
- Tuesday Morning Links -
- iPhone AT&T Only Until 2010 - Sorry, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon users...
- Delta To Offer Wi-Fi On Entire Fleet - First U.S. carrier to completely embrace 'Gogo
- Time Warner Cable Powerboost Hits L.A. - Deployment to reach all users by end of 2008
- Charter Losing Cable Subscribers - Adds 95k VoIP customers, 19k HSI customers
- Massachusetts Signs New Broadband Law - Aimed at helping 95 communities with little o
- Sprint EVDO Monthly Caps Arrive - Customer bills say cap enforcement begins in 30 day
- Still No Sign Of The Exaflood - Growth is strong, but far from unmanageable...
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- HughesNet Offers New 5Mbps Service - Fastest satellite broadband tier ever offered...
- Cablevision Agrees To Block Child Porn Sites - Covad caves into the pressure as well
- People Don't Want to Pay for Mobile TV - But they do seem to be interested in the ser
- Qwest Blames Bad 2nd Quarter on Competition - And announces fiber optic milestone to
- Wireless Broadband Revenue To Increase 2400% By 2015 - 50% of that growth will be in
- Dish Discussing Merger With DirecTV - Likely to be shot down as anti-competitive if p
- MN Broadband Task Force Debates 1 Gbps Speeds - Providers say that's too fast to dema
- Charter Announces DOCSIS 3.0 Launch This year - Which markets will get it hasn't been
- Wednesday Evening Links -
- Sprint Nextel Lost $344 Million In 2nd Quarter - More losses anticipated but Sprint i
- Time Warner Would Quickly Deploy Network DVR if Allowed - Copyright concerns could de
- T-Mobile Launches 3G in Vegas - 2nd quarter reports look good
- DNS Flaw Even Worse Than Predicted - Kaminsky explained scope of threat at Black Hat
- Younger Fliers Support In-Flight Cell Phone Use - International reports say that peop
- SlingPlayer 2.0 Finally Released - Missing some major features but getting positive r
- BitTorrent Lays Off Marketing Staff - Can't afford to market something designed to be
- Vonage Subscriber Growth At A Standstill - But they aren't losing so many customers e
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- FCC Asks Appeals Court to Dismiss E911 Rules - They're just too hard to implement
- DirecTV Retains Customers and Increases Revenue - Churn rate down; average customer i
- Phone Service Coalition Seeks Intercarrier Compensation Decision - FCC asked to set a
- Seniors Still Aren’t Aware of Digital TV Transition - Perhaps they'll notice when the
- Verizon Customer Charged for Unrequested DSL Upgrade - And wants to charge customer f
- ISPs Aren’t Telecommuter-Friendly - Broadband needs to improve for at-home workers
- Verizon Acquisition of RCC Now Complete - Rules mitigate risk of competitive harm
- Friday Open Thread - Say the things that you've got to say
- Friday Evening Links -
- Verizon Union Workers Set Sunday Strike Deadline - Negotiations continue but unions s
- Telcos Lost Both Voice and Broadband To Cable in Q2 - Analysts suggest that telcos fo
- MetroFi Antennas Could Cost $60,000 to Remove - Portland taxpayers may foot the bill
- University of Alaska Gifted with Broadband - $30 million broadband gift may improve r
- MI Town Sues Comcast Over Franchising Fees - Comcast claims failure to pay benefits c
- FL Man Attempts to Build Citywide WiMax Network - Is this another 'free to the city'
- The Pirate Bay Fights Blocking by Italian ISPs - Filtering of BitTorrent tracker may
- Qwest Union Authorizes Strike if Negotiations Fail - Contract set to expire on August
- Verizon Completes Enhancement of Florida 3G Network - Florida appears to be the place
- Small MSOs May Get Relief From Must Carry Rule - FCC to vote on new rules later this
- Innocent Infringement Defense May Work for RIAA Victim - Fines still high but symboli
- Verizon, Unions Reach Agreement - Strike avoided....
- U-Verse Launches in Wichita, Kansas - Deployment rolls onward toward goal of 30 milli
- Cogent Sees First Ever Quarterly Traffic Decline - Exaflood? What Exaflood?
- Free World Dial-Up No Longer Free - Jeff Pulver announces $30 annual membership fee
- FiOS Heads To Washington DC - Verizon agreement with city one step closer...
- Free Press: Metered Billing Going Nowhere Fast - Group suggests throttling vs. meteri
- Embarq Improves Hotline For The Particularly Annoyed - Sprint spinoff says it wants t
- 3G iPhone Honeymoon Over - Coverage connectivity issues begin to surface...
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- White Space Tests Struggle On Third Down - Devices fail to detect & avoid signals at
- Tuesday Morning Links -
- ISPs Used Mouseprint Alerts For NebuAD Trials - Congress investigates making behavior
- Broadband Growth Rate Plummets - Second quarter additions worst yet....