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FCC Wants To Kill Net Neutrality. Congress Will Pay The Price [telecom]
Opinion by Ryan Singel FCC CHAIR AJIT Pai's plan to repeal net neutrality provisions and reclassify broadband providers from "common carriers" to "information services" is an unprecedented giveaway to...
 
Net Neutrality Supporters To Protest At Verizon Stores Nationwide This Week [telecom]
A vote by the FCC on Dec. 14 could let major companies have way more control over your internet access. By Jenna Amatulli Protests are planned at Verizon stores across the country on Thursday amid the...
 
Qualcomm is trying to ban the iPhone X used by AT&T and T-Mobile [telecom]
by Jacob Kastrenakes Qualcomm and Apple's tit for tat legal battle continues yet again this week with a series of new filings from Qualcomm, one of which seeks to ban some iPhone X sales in the US....
 
AT&T wants you to forget that it blocked FaceTime over cellular in 2012 [telecom]
AT&T: Your Internet service won't change after FCC eliminates net neutrality rules. By Jon Brodkin AT&T's push to end net neutrality rules continued yesterday in a blog post that says the company has...
 
Fact check: Net-neutrality claims leave out key context [telecom]
By Tali Arbel Seeking to dispel "myths" about net neutrality, the Trump adminis- tration's telecom chief instead put out his own incomplete and misleading talking points when he suggested that...
 
FCC won't delay vote, says net neutrality supporters are "desperate" [telecom]
By Jon Brodkin The Federal Communications Commission will move ahead with its vote to kill net neutrality rules next week despite an unresolved court case that could strip away even more consumer...
 
AT&T Rewrites History, Claims Killing Net Neutrality Will Provide 'Enormous Benefits' [telecom]
Big telecom continues to make the extremely unconvincing sales pitch that we don't need net neutrality. By Karl Bode For several months now, major internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon...
 
CenturyLink fixes service disruption to customers in Montana [telecom]
Some Montana customers of CenturyLink reported having problems with long-distance calls on Friday. CenturyLink spokesman Steve Mosher said that the company had a "service disruption" that affected...
 
Re: [telecom] Net Neutrality Hits a Nerve, Eliciting Intense Reactions
Folks want so much to get their knickers in a twist over "net neutrality" that they'll take any hoax or misinterpretation and run with it. Like the cited one: In fact, Portugal not only has some...
 
Apple is sharing your face with apps. That's a new privacy worry. [telecom]
Apple is sharing your face with apps. That's a new privacy worry. Is Apple doing enough to protect your face? Is Apple doing enough to protect your face?
 
Re: Net Neutrality Hits a Nerve, Eliciting Intense Reactions [telecom]
Per Monty Solomon: This time around, they seem to have taken pains to make the commenting process more difficult. But somebody (John Oliver -mod) made it a little easier by creating - Click 'New...
 
The Telecom Digest was offline [telecom]
Due to a power failure at our home location, the Telecom Digest was offline on Friday. If you sent a post to the Digest and you don't see it in the next day or two, please resend it. As a result of...
 
The boss made me do it: survey found work-related distracted driving is common [telecom]
The boss made me do it: 43 percent admit using smartphone because of work while driving, survey says Surveys finds that many drivers jump on the phone for work-related reasons because they feel the...
 
[telecom] 1972 blue box created by Steve Wozniak to sell at auction for £50,000
The device that paved the way for Apple: 1972 'blue box' created by auction By Tim Collins, Daily Mail online, 1 December 2017 The revolutionary device was used with a keypad tethered to an ear piece....
 
Editorial: When It Comes To The Internet, Nobody Is Neutral [telecom]
I think I have a way to address the proposed new FCC policy - a policy which will revoke Net Neutrality. It's easy to implement, will improve your life, requires little effort, and is guaranteed to...