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Verizon's always-on throttling is an affront to customers and net neutrality [telecom]
Anyone who uses Verizon is now going to have a worse experience streaming video. By Nathan Ingraham Well, it was nice while it lasted. Today Verizon (the biggest carrier in the US) announced it was...
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Verizon's New Unlimited Plans Are All Worse Than Before [telecom]
by Andrew E. Freedman Verizon released an easy-to-undersand unlimited data plan earlier this year, but get ready to be confused. The carrier has chopped its plans into three pieces tiers with...
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Hands-on with the Note 8, Android Oreo, and Verizon [telecom]
by Andrew Marino This week on The Verge, Dieter was able to get his hands on the new Galaxy Note 8. So on The Vergecast, Nilay, Dieter, and Paul go over the first impressions of Samsung's latest...
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V is not just for Verizon .... [telecom]
Verizon upsold the FIOS subscriber into dropping regulated POTS, then botched the changeover to the VOIP offering. BUT it turns out VZ is selling advertising on disconnect messages.... *****...
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What Verizon's cheaper 'unlimited' actually means [telecom]
What Verizon's cheaper 'unlimited' actually means By Robert Pegoraro Q. Verizon went from one unlimited plan to two, and the cheaper one has some new fine print. Will I mind those limits? A....
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Dear iPhone: Here's Why We're Still Together After 10 Years [telecom]
Dear iPhone: Here's Why We're Still Together After 10 Years With the introduction of new iPhones on the horizon, a look at many of the reasons that Apple's smartphone has kept us in its grip for the...
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Samsung faces a crucial smartphone launch as its top executive faces a sentencing hearing [telecom]
Samsung faces a crucial smartphone launch as its top executive faces a sentencing hearing By Hayley Tsukayama Samsung's having a very big week - which has the potential to go very badly.
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Identity Thieves Hijack Cellphone Accounts to Go After Virtual Currency [telecom]
So-called phone porting attacks are exposing a vulnerability that could be exploited against anybody with valuable emails or other digital files. By Nathaniel Popper Hackers have discovered that one...
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Android 8.0 Oreo is official, starts rollout to devices [telecom]
NEW YORK CITY - Happy Eclipse Day! As the Moon slowly crept its way across the Sun, Google took the opportunity to host an Eclipse-themed Android 8.0 launch event in New York City. Along with eclipse...
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Spyware backdoor prompts Google to pull 500 apps [telecom]
Spyware backdoor prompts Google to pull 500 apps with >100m downloads By Dan Goodin At least 500 apps collectively downloaded more than 100 million times from Google's official Play Market contained a...
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Mexico approves AT&T/Time Warner merger [telecom]
Mexico Approves AT&T Acquisition of Time Warner By Paul Bond Once the merger closes, John Stankey, the head of AT&T's entertainment group, is expected to run Time Warner, which will be renamed. The...
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Editor's Corner - Verizon breaks ranks with AT&T, CenturyLink on next-gen FTTP, G.fast [telecom]
by Sean Buckley Verizon always likes to carve its own path, and the service provider's stance on next-gen fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) architectures and G.fast set off ongoing debate with its...
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Why Your Face Will Soon Be the Key to All Your Devices [telecom]
By Christopher Mims Why Your Face Will Soon Be the Key to All Your Devices It was a memorable moment in Pixar's 2004 classic "The Incredibles," one that seemed wildly futuristic at the time: Mr....
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Comcast completes Xfinity Mobile rollout in U.S. [telecom]
Comcast Corp.'s new cellphone service is now available in all its U.S. markets, the company said Thursday. Comcast launched Xfinity Mobile - which the company says can save consumers 30 percent on...
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Centurylink to launch new fiber technology [telecom]
CenturyLink trials virtual 10G-PON, sets next step of FTTP migration CenturyLink has begun a field trial of a virtualized 10G-PON solution, reflecting the service provider's move to begin virtualizing...
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