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Aereo Armageddon Ahead? [telecom]
By Kevin Goldberg, FHH CommLawBlog, December 18, 2013 | Warring parties agree on one thing: the Supreme Court should | intervene ASAP -- but will the Supremes agree to take the case | now? | | The...
 
FCC Imposes New Requirements for 911 System Service Providers [telecom]
By Bradford Ham, CommLawBlog, December 16, 2013 | FCC addresses numerous systemic failures in 911 service that | surfaced after 2012 "derecho" storm. | | In a matter of hours on June, 2012, a...
 
NCTA breaks from Comcast with support for 'examination of retransmission consent regime' [telecom]
By Steve Donohue, FierceCable, December 13, 2013 | After years of remaining neutral in disputes between pay TV | distributors and broadcasters involving retransmission-consent | fees, the National...
 
Cell Carriers Agree to Unlock Phones [telecom]
By Mitchell Lazarus, ComLawBlogg, December 13, 2013 | Deal comes just ahead of a threatened FCC rulemaking. | | This week the FCC had planned to consider a rule that would | require cell companies to...
 
Cable guys: Cord-cutters live in the Bermuda Triangle with Bigfoot and E.T. [telecom]
By Mark Sullivan, TechHive, Dec 4, 2013 | The cable cord-cutter has become a bit like the UFO. Lots of | people, many in the tech community, want to believe this | person is everywhere, while a whole...
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CPB Board hears troubling predictions [telecom]
By Dru Sefton, December 10, 2013 | Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board members got an | ominous preview Monday of the corporation's upcoming white | paper about spectrum issues in public...
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Challenge-Response Now Available On CallCentric [telecom]
Just got an announce from my VOIP provider to the effect that they are implementing something I've been ranting about for a couple years as the only solution: "Telemarketer Block - With our...
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Archer Savoye Taylor (1916 - 2013) passes [telecom]
By Brian Santo, Mon, 12/09/2013, CED | Archer Taylor died on November 22. He was a member of the very | first handful of people to get involved in what would only | later become known as the CATV...
 
12 reasons why society is crumbling -- smartphones [Telecom]
Regardless how one feels about the term "douchebag", the 12 photos at the following URL are a photographic essay that must be seen to begin to understand what's wrong with our society; I see similar...
 
Aereo to target Comcast subscribers with launch in Baltimore [telecom]
By Steve Donohue, FierceCable, December 5, 2013 | Aereo said Thursday that it plans to flip the switch on its | local broadcast TV platform in the Baltimore, Md., | metropolitan area on Dec. 16. | |...
 
Google Fiber irks Kansas City residents by placing RT cabinet in middle of sidewalk [telecom]
December 5, 2013 By Sean Buckley, FierceCable | Google Fiber's unusual placement of a utility cabinet that | houses its fiber equipment--in the middle of a sidewalk--has | incited the rage of Kansas...
 
Verizon targets Cablevision subscribers with push for new FiOS franchise in Long Island [telecom]
December 4, 2013 | By Steve Donohue, FierceCable | Cablevision could soon face new competition in the Long | Island town of Glen Cove, N.Y., where Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is | seeking a cable franchise for...
 
[telecom] That's a pretty bright phone flashlight. It knows where you are...
[FTC press release] Android Flashlight App Developer Settles FTC Charges It Deceived Consumers "Brightest Flashlight" App Shared Users' Location, Device ID Without Consumers' Knowledge The creator of...
 
Noncommercial Stations Out West Back to Being Noncommercial...For Now [telecom]
Ninth Circuit en banc reverses 2012 panel decision, restores prohibition against "issue advertising" on NCE stations. We all know that noncommercial (NCE) broadcasting stations are just that -...
 
New lawsuit by would-be rival threatens Aereo's entry into Chicago market [telecom]
By Jeff John Roberts, Gigaom, Nov. 26, 2013 | Aereo's would-be rival filed an unusual lawsuit in Chicago | that hurts the streaming TV service's plans to expand to other | parts of the country, and...