- Comcast Launches Wireless Broadband In Philly - Mobile WiMax 'High Speed 2 Go' hits t
- Wednesday Evening Links -
- Parachutist Jumps From TV Tower - While it's still on...
- Thursday Morning Links -
- Comcast Hints At Layoffs - As cable giant is poised to acquire NBC Universal
- AT&T's Memo To Employees About Verizon Suit - 'If anybody asks, just tell them we're
- Verizon: Droid Tethering Will Cost $30 Extra - Was that the pricing you were looking
- Charter Offers 60 Mbps In California - But only in one market as company struggles wi
- Verizon Offers New Prepaid Wireless Broadband Plans - $15 for 75MB, $30 for 250MB, or
- T-Mobile 7.2 Mbps Upgrades Arriving? - T-Mobile's not having a great week, but things
- Will 'Three Strikes' Come To The United States? - The answer is probably yes....
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- Friday Morning Links -
- Oregon Regulators Not Thrilled With Frontier Deal - 'Lots of risk, but very little up
- Cox Raising TV, Video Prices - At least in Louisiana...
- Comcast Slammed For Non-Existent Throttling Changes - A few people apparently haven't
- British Telecom Losing Its Fiber Phobia? - Who wants a Ferrari when a Ford will do? P
- Clearwire Launch Grumblings Continue - Problems getting wireless signal through energ
- Law Experts: FCC Neutrality Rules Too Murky - As now written, could be utterly useles
- Weekend Open Thread - Speak your mind
- Friday Evening Links -
- Bill Would Force ISPs To Block Financial Scams - And make them liable if they failed
- Clearwire To Get Another $1.5 Billion - Sprint and cable partners pony up more cash..
- VoIP Over 3G Still Not Working For iPhone - Despite all of the hand holding and celeb
- Mediacom Hints At 50, 100 Mbps Speeds - Eleven new DOC 3.0 markets starting in Decemb
- 15 States Have Now Gotten Broadband Mapping Money - And Connected Nation has yet to b
- Verizon Keeps Swinging At AT&T - Despite recent lawsuit over 3G ads
- AT&T Launching New 7.2 Mbps 3G Modem - Available November 22, free after $100 rebate.
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- Monday Evening Links -
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- Sprint Announces Job Cuts - Insists they won't impact customer service...
- Google Offers Free Holiday Airport Wi-Fi - At 47 airports nationwide...
- Moto Sold About 100,000 Droids - Not quite the droid weekend they were looking for, b
- Government Will Release Some Telco Wiretap Lobbying Documents - Though they'll protec
- Verizon's Hanging Up On Rural America - While pretending it's in your best interest
- Verizon's Higher ETFs Annoy Senator - 'Anti-consumer and anti-competitive,' says Minn
- One More Broadband Funding Round - Companies, orgs line up for $7.2 billion in broadb
- Verizon Pays $2 Million For Poor Florida Service - Years of complaints 'resolved' by
- One MPAA Complaint Closes Free Ohio Wi-Fi Network - Apparently fighting Sony Pictures
- Wednesday Morning Links -
- Time Warner Cable CEO Still Dreams Of Metered Future - Still thinks his version of me
- T-Mobile Playing 3G Catch Up, Fast - Quickly moving to 7.2 Mbps HSPA, then 21 Mbps
- XOHM Finally Becomes Clear - Users urged to get new modems ahead of December 2 cutove
- Comcast Testing WiMax Femtocells - May, may not be deployed sometime in 2010
- Verizon iPhone Looking More Like A Sure Thing - New, smaller, 'worldmode' EVDO/HSDPA
- Wednesday Evening Links -
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- AT&T Continues To Fight Verizon's New 3G Ads - Bringing yet additional attention to t
- Comcast NBC Deal Could Face FCC Conditions - When a company owns the pipe -- and the
- Clearwire: 555,000 Subscribers - 173,000 of which are new, Mobile WiMax users
- Blockbuster Still Not Getting This Whole Broadband Thing - Dear Blockbuster, broadban
- Verizon's $1.99 Phantom Fee Returns - This time covered by David Pogue at the NY Time
- Charter Hits Senior Citizens With Rate Hikes - Courtesy of California's 'franchise re
- New Google Protocol Promises Huge Speed Boost - Of course you've probably heard this
- Thursday Evening Links -
- Comcast TV Everywhere WILL Work Outside The Home - According to a company interview t
- Friday Morning Links -
- Verizon Working With RIAA On New Warning Letters - New letter notification campaign b
- AT&T 'Sets The Record Straight' On Verizon Ads - And continues to give Verizon additi
- Netflix CEO: Netflix Is Broadband Killer App - And bandwidth is cheap...
- Virgin Expands 'Broadband2Go' Availability - Unfortunately, the underwhelming pricing
- $13 For 100 Mbps - And the ISP pays YOU if you don't get 80% speed
- Bell Canada's Profit Doubles - Without the need for usage-based billing
- Wi-Fi Network Shuttered By MPAA Re-Opens - After week of bad press, Sony suddenly fee
- Follow Us On Twitter - AKA: Weekend Open Thread
- Friday Evening Links -
- Monday Morning Links -
- Verizon Also Sending Letters On Behalf Of MPAA - Still won't disclose a user's identi
- Wireless Industry Pricing Plans Confuse Economists, Too - Trying to unwravel the logi
- Verizon's To Be Tested By Unofficial Droid Tethering - Of course even untethered, use
- Chicago Tribune Visits 'Comcast Support Boot Camp' - Inside Comcast's 11 week trainin
- Chicago Tribune Visits 'Comcast University' - Inside Comcast's 11 week training progr
- Verizon To Be Tested By Unofficial Droid Tethering - Of course even untethered, users
- Sprint 4G Arrives in Austin, San Antonio - Handful of market launches remaining for 2
- Sprint Settles Over Stealth Contract Extensions - Minnesota Sprint customers get full
- Windstream Bumps Upstream DSL Speeds - Give them a nudge if you don't see the improve
- Monday Evening Links -
- Tuesday Morning Links -
- Verizon To AT&T: The Truth Hurts - Back and forth over ad campaign continues...
- Verizon Offers Six Months Free DSL Promo - To help counter the company's continued DS
- Vonage Settles Over Annoying Cancellation Tactics - As in: you quite often couldn't a
- Charter Chairman Paul Allen Facing Cancer - Beat a similar cancer 25 years ago...
- Pirate Bay Tracker Offline for Good - Though the site will continue pushing files via
- Frontier Fires Up Verizon Acquisition PR Campaign - Promising rural users 'next gener
- Feds Crack Down On Gift Card Trickery - But your ISP cash back rebate card won't be i
- Tuesday Evening Links -
- Wednesday Morning Links -
- Own Your Own Fiber - Utopia tinkers with a slightly different model
- Deploying FTTH Without Digging Things Up - Buckeye using new process for FTTH trial i
- Verizon Again Hints At Metered Billing - And again tries to suggest that 'it's only f
- Femtocells Are A No Show - And 2010 may not be much better
- NY PSC: Verizon Lagging On DSL/Landline Repairs - Timely repair rate at seven year lo
- FCC Imposes Shot Clock On Wireless Tower Builds - Hopes to speed up deployment of new
- Wednesday Evening Links -
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- Judge Denies AT&T Motion To Dismiss Verizon Ads - Though there will be another round
- Charter Eyeing 'Consumption Based Billing' - Though management, debt are the real pro
- 'Data Driven' FCC Still Using Ancient Data - Science is hard.
- Again: Metered Billing Is Not 'Inevitable' - Growth is manageable, companies are prof
- Again: Metered Billing Is Neither Necessary Nor Inevitable - Growth is manageable, co
- Broadband Over Powerline's Poster Child Pulling The Plug - Years later BPL's proponen
- There's Still No Evidence That Metered Billing Is Necessary - Growth is manageable, c
- Spain Declares Broadband A Legal Right - Everyone must get 1 Mbps service by 2011
- Comcast Portal Hackers Indicted - For 2008 defacement of Comcast portal...
- Thursday Evening Links -
- Comcast Website Hackers Indicted - For 2008 defacement of Comcast portal...
- DirecTV Sale To Baby Bell Rumor Heats Up (Again) - AT&T, Verizon have recently expres
- Friday Morning Links -
- FCC Hints At Return To Open Access - Companies are of course, annoyed...
- Will AOL's Implosion Ever End? - Latest remake involves laying off one third of staff
- Telus Sues Rogers Over Ad Claims - Canadian carriers feud over 3G speed crown
- Deutsche Telekom Looking For U.S. T-Mobile Partner - Wants to make move to improve fo
- Verizon Brings FiOS To Philadelphia - First neighborhoods in 7 year project come onli
- Friday Evening Links -
- Weekend Open Thread - You might feel better if you talk about it...
- Monday Morning Links -
- Frontier Increases Modem Rental Fee - From $3.99 to $6.99 per month...
- Vivendi In Way Of Comcast's NBC Desires - Vivendi execs want more cash for their 20%
- Earthlink Suffers From Major E-mail Outage - Downed server causes multi-day troubles.
- New AT&T Ad Campaign Hits Back At Verizon - Though the punch doesn't carry much force
- AT&T Offers New Prepaid Wireless plans - Mirrors Verizon pricing, though there's no p
- Charter Still Fighting With Creditors - Who are trying to keep the company from exiti
- New Bill Takes Aim At Higher Verizon ETFs - Senator Amy Klobuchar tries again...
- Time Warner Dallas Customers Get WiMax December 1 - Launch joins bevy of North Caroli
- Senators Want ACTA Made Public - 'State secret' cloak is designed to prevent criticis
- Tuesday Morning Links -
- FCC "Forgets" There's Limited Competition - FCC list of broadband obstacles oddly omi
- Windstream Quietly Keeps Growing - Acquires Iowa Telecommunications Services
- In-Flight Internet Headed For Bumpy Landing? - Users simply aren't interested in payi
- FCC Broadband Problem List Omits 'No Competition,' FCC Itself - Surely decades of bad
- Apple Joins AT&T Verizon Snark Fest - With the same disregard for accuracy...
- Joost's Remaining Pieces Sold - Ad firm buys remnants for undisclosed sum
- Despite Billions In USF Fees, U.S. Libraries Lack Bandwidth - Welcome to dysfunction
- Tuesday Evening Links -
- Wednesday Morning Links -
- TiVo Sees Record Customer Losses - Worst quarterly subscriber drop ever
- Clearwire Nabs $2.8 Billion In Additional Funding - Now they just need to build the n
- EFF Wages War On Fine Print - Launches additional resources to track TOS, AUPs
- Time Warner Cable Fires Broadside At Broadcasters - Asks customers what they should d
- Sprint's Wireless Network Apparently Not 'Most Dependable' - At least according to th
- ICANN Slams DNS Redirection - Calls such efforts a 'destabilizing practice'
- Rogers Launches Internet Video Beta - So you can eat away at your cap even faster...
- Comcast Settles Georgia Overcharging Suit - Though the customers impacted won't see a
- Wednesday Evening Links -
- Thanksgiving Open Thread - Gobble, gobble.
- Friday Morning Links -
- Waterloo, Iowa To See 105 Mbps Mediacom - Will be 'showcase' market for new DOCSIS 3.
- Fairpoint Hires New Marketing Firms - Will try to untarnish Fairpoint brand
- Verizon CEO: Hulu Will Be Dead Soon - Leading Internet video service just a fad...
- Virgin Media Starts Snooping In User Packets - Using deep packet inspection to measur
- FCC Looking For White Space Database Administrators - As agency pushes for new wirele
- Weekend Open Thread - Compile your code.
- Friday Evening Links -
- AT&T Top Lobbyist Cicconi Has His Feelings Hurt - Over network neutrality and China d
- Midcontinent Socked With Easement Lawsuit - Mirrors recent AT&T lawsuit over laying l
- Monday Morning Links -
- Broadband Killed The Game Console - If by 'killed' you mean created something exponen
- Rural Carriers Quickly Embracing Fiber - Both fiber to the node, and to the home...
- Charter Exits Chapter 11 - $8 billion lighter in the debt department...
- Baltimore To Ban Lazy Cable Installs - New bill would require coax be buried within f
- Monday Evening Links -
- Tuesday Morning Links -
- Vivendi Agrees, Comcast/NBC Deal Soon - $5.8 billion for Vivendi's stake in NBC Unive
- ACTA: Global Three Strikes - Leaks continue to hint at lots and lots of bad ideas...
- Rogers Unveils The ISP Dream Model - In house video, caps and overage fees for using
- Telco Exec Gets Broadband In Market Snubbed For Years - British Telecom Chairman upse
- Comcast Releasing Promised Usage Meter - Trial launched in Portland, accuracy measure
- Clearwire Launching In Hawaii And Seattle - Carrier moves past sixty markets launched
- Latest Consumer Reports Survey Not Kind To AT&T - Company ranked dead last for wirele
- Tuesday Evening Links -
- Wednesday Morning Links -
- Graduate Student Unveils Sprint's GPS Sharing With Feds - Eight million 'pings' to us
- WildBlue Upgrades Coming? - Customers hope ViaSat acquisition means better service...
- FCC Aims To Expand USF - But again, they probably should bother to fix it first....
- Cable Industry's 'Adoption Plus': Altruism Or PR Stunt? - Helping the poor, or gettin
- AT&T, Verizon Drop 3G Ad Dispute - Can't we all just get along and make billions?
- Time Warner Cable Launches 'Roadrunner Mobile' - North Carolina and Dallas markets go
- Verizon Neglecting DSL, Landline Support In Multiple States - Yet another PSC says DS
- Wednesday Evening Links -
- The Avast Problem - False Positives Galore
- Avast Antivirus Has Gone Mad - Antivirus program suddenly sees false positives everyw
- Thursday Morning Links -
- Wisconsin Data Shows AT&T's 'Franchise Reform' Was A Joke - Now consumers get higher
- Comcast Makes NBC Universal Acquisition Official - New $30 billion joint venture arri
- T-Mobile Won't Talk About Tethering - The state of the tethering union...
- Sprint Defuses GPS Privacy Media Bomb - By simply talking about it with the press...
- Google Invades ISP, OpenDNS Turf With Google Public DNS - Faster, better, more secure
- FCC Ponders Moving From PSTN To IP Voice - Wants input on how to make it happen...
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- New Bill Aims To Limit ETFs - Senator Klobucher tries again...
- Fairpoint Can Afford Lobbyists and PR Firms, But Not Your Refund - Company fights giv
- Behavioral Ad Industry: We're Not Creepy! - New ad campaign designed to fend off cons
- ISPs Ramping Up P2P Warnings - Cox employs three strikes, Time Warner invades your br
- FCC Asks Verizon About That $1.99 Mystery Data Fee - 'Dear sirs, might we ask you abo
- The Bandwidth Hog Does Not Exist - One blogger offers an invitation for ISPs to prove
- Weekend Open Thread - Enjoy the weekend!
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- Monday Morning Links -
- Microwaving Your Innards Is Not 'Extreme' - Another tower stuntman hobbyist...
- 3G Network Test Says AT&T Is Tops - And that problems are based on 'perception'
- Sprint Sued For Distracted Driving Death - Mother's daughter sues carrier, phone manu
- The Future Of Wi-Fi Is Bright - 802.11N enhancements improve range and speed....
- Site Leaks Yahoo, Verizon Fed Data Share Pricing - Yahoo issues DMCA takedown, ensuri
- Mediacom Unveils 105 Mbps Pricing - You might want to have some disposable income han
- Verizon LTE: 5-12 Mbps Downstream - 2-5 Mbps upstream, still no price, cap announceme
- Monday Evening Links -
- FTC Considering Tougher Privacy Rules - But will they survive running the lobbyist ga
- Sprint Poised For A Turnaround? - Barron's Weekly says so, investers appreciate it
- AT&T Releases Network Reporting iPhone App - Mark The Spot lets you report 3G network
- Tuesday Morning Links -
- WPA Cracker: Test WPA-PSK Networks In 20 Minutes - 400 servers, 135 million word dict
- Verizon Settles With NJ Over Misleading FiOS Marketing - TVs that never arrived, pric
- Cox Announces First Wireless Broadband Markets - In Virginia, Omaha, California....
- Qwest: We Still Don't Need No Stinkin' IPTV - Execs continue to insist 'over the top'
- Tuesday Evening Links -
- Wednesday Morning Links -
- NBC Universal: For Neutrality Before They Were Against It - Do what we say now, not w
- AT&T Launching New 23 Mbps U-Verse Tier - Baby bell says U-verse now serves 2 million
- FTC Sues Over Robocalls - Three companies cited in scam calls
- AT&T Launching New 24 Mbps U-Verse Tier - Baby bell says U-verse now serves 2 million
- Cox Brings 50 Mbps To Las Vegas - $119.99 per month for 50/5 Mbps
- AT&T Hints At Usage-Based iPhone Data Pricing - To be 'determined by industry competi
- Clearwire Suffers Five Hour Outage - In half a dozen of the company's launch markets.
- Wednesday Evening Links -
- Average American Consumes 34 Gigabytes Daily - Albeit from ALL info sources (TV, Inte
- Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Rumor Lives - One analyst says changes have 'risen to around
- Comcast 'Soft Launches' New Backup Service - And yes, it will count against your 250
- Thursday Morning Links -
- Oregon Regulators Approve Verizon/Frontier Deal - With several conditions, including
- AT&T Faces Class Action For Slow DSL - Could impact customers as far back as 2000
- GAO: FCC Fails To Protect Wireless Consumers - As high prices and billing complaints
- AT&T: iPhone Data Pricing Comments 'Taken Out Of Context' - They simply want to 'educ
- Thursday Evening Links -
- Friday Morning Links -
- Wide Open West Sued For Snoopvertising - Suit claims WOW lied to Congress about NebuA
- Sprint Gives You A Way Out Of Your Contract - Once again raises and adds new monthly
- Globalive Now Deemed 'Canadian Enough' To Compete In Canada - Canadian Industry Minis
- Cox: Our Non-Fiber Network Is In Fact Fiber - Cable industry somewhat ashamed of coax
- Cable Industry Gets Confused By First Amendment - Apparently, anti-competitive behavi
- Verizon CEO: We Don't Need To Buy DirecTV - 'No strategic need,' says company
- Weekend Open Thread - Chat amongst yourselves
- Friday Evening Links -
- TiVO Tries To Figure Out Where It Fits - And doesn't appear to be entirely sure...
- Rural Broadband User? You're Screwed - Of course if you're a rural broadband user, yo
- Faster Verizon DSL Service Will Burn Your House Down - Customer service is always a l
- Google To Sell Phone Directly To Consumers - Though they'll also be offering it via T
- Monday Morning Links -
- NY Times: AT&T 3G Network Is Secretly Awesome - Ignore all that other stuff you've re