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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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. | |...
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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...
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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...
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[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...
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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 -...
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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...
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