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| Sep 25, 2024 | The Battle for Accountability: AT&T and ShotSpotter in the Crosshairs | In the world of corporate giants and tech solutions, accountability often feels like a mirage. Two recent cases highlight this struggle: AT&T’s bribery trial and the fate of ShotSpotter in Chicago. Both scenarios expose the fragility of... |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Mistrial Declared In Bribery Trial Of AT&T Executive | I’ve covered telecom giants like AT&T for most of an adult life. And I can tell you with absolute certainty that the company all but owns most state legislatures, who are happy to pass no limit of terrible, anti-consumer, anti-competiti... |
| Jun 17, 2024 | Mysterious Malware Attack Destroys 600 Routers On One ISP In 72 Hours | Last Halloween, thousands of users for U.S. broadband provider Windstream began complaining online about the fact that their routers simply stopped working. At the time, Windstream (one of the worst ranked ISPs in the country) sent users re... |
| May 30, 2024 | Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span | Enlarge
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One day last October, subscribers to an ISP known as Windstream began flooding message boards with reports their routers had suddenly stopped working and remained unresponsive to reboots and all othe... |
| Oct 19, 2022 | AT&T Hit With $23 Million Fine For Bribing Illinois Lawmaker | In just the last decade or so AT&T has been fined $18.6 million for helping rip off programs for the hearing impaired; fined $10.4 million for ripping off a program for low-income families; fined $105 million for helping “crammers” rip ... |
| Nov 12, 2021 | Canadian Telecom Giant Rogers Mired In Bizarre Executive Power Feud That Began With A Butt Dial | You might remember Canadian telecom giant Rogers. The company routinely found itself in the headlines for all the wrong reasons during the net neutrality wars, after it repeatedly tried to abuse its gatekeeper power to disadvantage other co... |
| Oct 6, 2021 | AT&T Set Up And Paid For OAN Propaganda Network; Yet Everyone Wants To Scream About Facebook | We've noted for a while there's a weird myopia occurring in internet policy. As in, "big tech" (namely Facebook, Google, and Amazon) get a relentless amount of Congressional and policy wonk attention for their various, a... |
| Oct 6, 2021 | AT&T Set Up And Paid For OAN Propaganda Network; Yet Everyone Wants To Scream About Facebook | We’ve noted for a while there’s a weird myopia occurring in internet policy. As in, “big tech” (namely Facebook, Google, and Amazon) get a relentless amount of Congressional and policy wonk attention for their various, and sometimes painful... |
| May 24, 2021 | US Telecoms Keep Getting Wrist Slaps For Repeatedly Ripping Off The US Government | You may have to squint to see it, but tell me if you can detect the faint outline of a pattern here. |
| May 24, 2021 | US Telecoms Keep Getting Wrist Slaps For Repeatedly Ripping Off The US Government | You may have to squint to see it, but tell me if you can detect the faint outline of a pattern here. |
| Apr 30, 2021 | Biden Administration Poised To Give Comcast Lobbyist Canadian Ambassador Spot | While the Biden administration still hasn’t fully staffed the gridlocked FCC, it does appear to be ready to reward a top Comcast lobbyist and key Biden fundraising ally with a cushy new post. |
| Apr 30, 2021 | Biden Administration Poised To Give Comcast Lobbyist Canadian Ambassador Spot | While the Biden administration still hasn't fully staffed the gridlocked FCC, it does appear to be ready to reward a top Comcast lobbyist and key Biden fundraising ally with a cushy new post. |
| Mar 22, 2021 | Whistleblower Says AT&T Has Been Ripping Off US Schools For A Decade | In just the last five years or so AT&T has been: fined $18.6 million for helping rip off programs for the hearing impaired; fined $10.4 million for ripping off a program for low-income families; fined $105 million for helping "cram... |
| Mar 22, 2021 | Whistleblower Says AT&T Has Been Ripping Off US Schools For A Decade | In just the last five years or so AT&T has been: fined $18.6 million for helping rip off programs for the hearing impaired; fined $10.4 million for ripping off a program for low-income families; fined $105 million for helping “crammers”... |
| Mar 10, 2021 | SEC Sues AT&T For Leaking Info To Analysts To Cover Up Drooping Smartphone Sales | AT&T had a damn good ride during the Trump administration. Not only did it convince Trump regulators to effectively lobotomize the nation's top telecom regulator (right before a pandemic, no less), the company got billions in tax b... |
| Mar 10, 2021 | SEC Sues AT&T For Leaking Info To Analysts To Cover Up Drooping Smartphone Sales | AT&T had a damn good ride during the Trump administration. Not only did it convince Trump regulators to effectively lobotomize the nation’s top telecom regulator (right before a pandemic, no less), the company got billions in tax breaks... |
| Feb 12, 2021 | Frontier raises sneaky “Internet Infrastructure Surcharge” from $4 to $7 | Enlarge
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| Feb 5, 2021 | 2021 Prediction #4: Wi-Fi 6 is a bust (for now) as Bufferbloat returns thanks to ISP greed | Remember Bufferbloat? It’s a subject I was among the first to write about a decade ago, starting with a prediction column just like this one in 2011. The problem at the time was that every video or audio application -- the big bandwidth con... |
| Jan 29, 2021 | Georgia Towns Sue Netflix In Flimsy Bid To Nab A Slice Of The Pie | A handful of municipalities in Georgia have filed a lawsuit (pdf) against Hulu, Netflix, and other streaming providers in a ham-fisted bid to saddle customers with cable franchise fees. Such franchise fees were common in the cable TV era. I... |
| Jan 29, 2021 | Cable ISP warns “excessive” uploaders, says network can’t handle heavy usage | Enlarge
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Mediacom, a cable company with about 1.4 million Internet customers across 22 states, is t... |
| Aug 25, 2020 | Boys And Girls Club Backtracks After Folks Ask Why It's Helping A Cable Monopoly Lobby The FCC | Last month we noted how the Boys and Girls Club was one of several organizations cable giant Charter (Spectrum) was using to lobby the FCC in a bid to kill off merger conditions affixed to its 2015 merger with Time Warner Cable. Many of tho... |
| Aug 19, 2020 | Indiana Cities File Doomed Lawsuit Against Disney, Netflix, Demand 5% of Gross Revenues | A coalition of cities has filed a desperate, and likely doomed, lawsuit (pdf) against streaming providers like Netflix and Disney. In it, the cities proclaim that they are somehow owed 5 percent of gross annual revenue. Why? Apparently they... |
| Jun 18, 2020 | AT&T Says Being Misleading About 'Unlimited' Data Plans Was Ok, Because Reporters Told Consumers It Was Being Misleading | Back in 2014 the FTC sued AT&T for selling "unlimited" wireless data plans with very real and annoying limits. The lawsuit noted that, starting in 2011, AT&T began selling "unlimited" plans that actually throttle... |
| Jun 18, 2020 | AT&T Says Being Misleading About 'Unlimited' Data Plans Was Ok, Because Reporters Told Consumers It Was Being Misleading | Back in 2014 the FTC sued AT&T for selling “unlimited” wireless data plans with very real and annoying limits. The lawsuit noted that, starting in 2011, AT&T began selling “unlimited” plans that actually throttled upwards of 90 perc... |
| May 7, 2020 | New AT&T CEO Says You're A Moron If You Don't Use AT&T Streaming Services | Last week AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson stepped down after his $150 billion bid to dominate the video advertising space fell flat on its face. Stephenson's tenure was plagued by no shortage of scandals, though it was his failures on ... |
| May 7, 2020 | New AT&T CEO Says You're A Moron If You Don't Use AT&T Streaming Services | Last week AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson stepped down after his $150 billion bid to dominate the video advertising space fell flat on its face. Stephenson’s tenure was plagued by no shortage of scandals, though it was his failures on the T... |
| Apr 30, 2020 | AT&T CEO Steps Down After Bungled, Megamerger-Fueled TV Failure | So we've noted a few times how giant telecom providers, as companies that have spent the better part of the last century as government-pampered monopolies, are adorable when they try (then inevitably fail) to innovate or seriously comp... |
| Apr 30, 2020 | AT&T CEO Steps Down After Bungled, Megamerger-Fueled TV Failure | So we’ve noted a few times how giant telecom providers, as companies that have spent the better part of the last century as government-pampered monopolies, are adorable when they try (then inevitably fail) to innovate or seriously compete i... |
| Feb 12, 2020 | AT&T Keeps Pretending It Wants Real Net Neutrality And Privacy Laws. It Doesn't. | You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger enemy of consumer safeguards than the fine folks at AT&T. The company has a history of all manner of anti-competitive behavior, from making its bills harder to understand to help scammers rip ... |
| Feb 12, 2020 | AT&T Keeps Pretending It Wants Real Net Neutrality And Privacy Laws. It Doesn't. | You’d be hard pressed to find a bigger enemy of consumer safeguards than the fine folks at AT&T. The company has a history of all manner of anti-competitive behavior, from making its bills harder to understand to help scammers rip off i... |
| Jan 17, 2020 | Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service | Enlarge / A Charter Spectrum vehicle.
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| Nov 4, 2019 | There’s Too Many Damn Streaming Services, Study Finds | There’s really no doubt that the streaming TV revolution has been a good thing for American consumers. Instead of paying a company like Comcast a small fortune for hundreds of unwatched channels and comically-terrible customer service, stre... |
| Oct 11, 2019 | AT&T raises prices 7% by making its customers pay AT&T’s property taxes | Enlarge / Poor piggy.
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| Aug 16, 2019 | FCC Forgets About, Then Dismisses, Complaint Detailing Verizon's Long History Of Net Neutrality Violations | So a few years ago we wrote about Alex Nguyen, one of the only folks to file a formal net neutrality complaint (pdf) with the FCC. Before the rules were killed, users could file a free complaint, of which there were thousands. But if you wa... |
| Aug 2, 2019 | AT&T Scores $1 Billion Contract To Rebuild DOJ Systems | AT&T is increasingly becoming one of those companies that’s so bone-grafted to the government, it’s getting harder to determine where the telecom giant ends and the government begins. Reports have already explored how AT&T is effect... |
| Aug 2, 2019 | AT&T Scores $1 Billion Contract To Rebuild DOJ Systems | AT&T is increasingly becoming one of those companies that's so bone-grafted to the government, it's getting harder to determine where the telecom giant ends and the government begins. Reports have already explored how AT&T... |
| Aug 1, 2019 | Ars reviews three cell signal boosters—and they actually work | Enlarge / This Cel-Fi Pro coverage unit is in my downstairs den, receiving LTE signal from the network unit upstairs in my living room.
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| Jul 29, 2019 | Court Will Decide If AT&T Is Liable For Cryptocurrency Theft Caused By Shoddy Security | Wireless carriers are coming under increasing fire for failing to protect their users from SIM hijacking. The practice involves posing as a wireless customer, then fooling a wireless carrier to port the victim’s cell phone number right out ... |
| Jul 29, 2019 | Court Will Decide If AT&T Is Liable For Cryptocurrency Theft Caused By Shoddy Security | Wireless carriers are coming under increasing fire for failing to protect their users from SIM hijacking. The practice involves posing as a wireless customer, then fooling a wireless carrier to port the victim's cell phone number right... |
| Jul 19, 2019 | Netflix Sees First Subscriber Losses Ever | Netflix has certainly enjoyed its flight to the top of the heap of the streaming space, now streaming video to 60.1 million US subscribers. That’s more than pay TV giants like AT&T or even Comcast, who’ve done their best (via usage caps... |
| Jul 19, 2019 | Netflix Sees First Subscriber Losses Ever | Netflix has certainly enjoyed its flight to the top of the heap of the streaming space, now streaming video to 60.1 million US subscribers. That's more than pay TV giants like AT&T or even Comcast, who've done their best (via ... |
| Jul 1, 2019 | The Streaming TV Sector Still Doesn't Realize Exclusives Will Drive Users Back To Piracy | So we’ve noted a few times now that the rise of streaming video competitors is indisputably a good thing. Numerous new streaming alternatives have driven competition to an antiquated cable TV sector that has long been plagued by apathy, hig... |
| May 15, 2019 | Disney Takes Full Control Of Hulu, Ending Years Of Managerial Schizophrenia | For years we’ve noted how as a product of the cable and broadcast industry, Hulu spent many years going out of its way to avoid being truly disruptive. Past owners 21st Century Fox, AT&T, Disney and Comcast/NBC spent a lot of time ensur... |
| May 10, 2019 | The Pai FCC Sits On Its Hands While Phone Companies Rip Off American Taxpayers | We’ve talked often about how the nation’s phone companies, now fixated on video and online advertising, have effectively just been letting their DSL and phone networks fall apart while still charging exorbitant rates. Not only did these com... |
| Apr 25, 2019 | This ISP Is Offering a 'Fast Lane' for Gamers...For $15 More Per Month | For years gamers have been targeted with products that promise to give them a unique edge in online competition—provided they’re willing to pony up the extra cash. Whether it’s pricey, overdesigned routers that promise a speed and latency a... |
| Apr 5, 2019 | Ironically, Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy | To be very clear the rise in streaming video competitors is a very good thing. It’s providing users with more choice, lower prices, and better customer service than consumers traditionally received from entrenched vanilla cable TV companies... |
| Mar 5, 2019 | AT&T Begins Trying To Screw Up HBO In Earnest | If you haven’t noticed by now, big telecom companies aren’t particularly good at wandering outside of their core competencies. They’ve been government-pampered monopolies so long, innovation, creativity, and competition are concepts that ar... |
| Feb 25, 2019 | Trump Administration's 'National Broadband Plan' Comically Refuses To Acknowledge A Lack Of Competition | We’ve well documented how the telecom sector is a pit of regulatory capture and dysfunction, pretty evident if you’ve ever tried to switch ISPs, negotiate a lower rate, or contact Comcast customer support. And since these companies have the... |
| Feb 22, 2019 | Investigators, Reporters Close In On The Origins Of Those Fake Net Neutrality Comments | As several Attorneys General and the FBI investigate who was behind the fake net neutrality comments that plagued the FCC website during the late 2017 repeal, reporters like Jason Prechtel and Gizmodo’s Dell Cameron continue to slowly and m... |
| Jan 4, 2019 | 2019 Brings Another Wave Of Cable Programming Blackout Feuds Nobody Wants To Address | We’ve written for years about how retransmission and carriage fee disputes in the cable industry have grown increasingly common and are only getting worse. The short version: when it comes time to sign a new deal paying for content, broadca... |
| Jan 2, 2019 | AT&T Attempts A Head Fake With 'Fake 5G' | We’ve already gone over how fifth-generation “5G” wireless, while a notable improvement in network speed and performance, has been obnoxiously over-hyped by hardware vendors and cellular carriers. We’ve also noted that in reality, broad ava... |
| Dec 28, 2018 | CBS Eyes Ditching Nielsen As Streaming, Cord Cutting Change The Game | For years, we’ve noted how popular TV ratings firm Nielsen has turned a bit of a blind eye to cord cutting and the Internet video revolution, on one hand declaring that the idea of cord cutting was “pure fiction,” while on the other hand ad... |
| Dec 21, 2018 | AT&T Lets Users Avoid Broadband Caps…If They Use AT&T's Own Streaming Service | So we’ve long noted how broadband usage caps on fixed-line broadband connections are bullshit. While ISPs used to insist that such limits were necessary to manage “congestion,” they’ve long since been forced to back off those justifications... |
| Dec 11, 2018 | Mobile Location Scandals Keep Making Facebook's Privacy Flubs Look Like Child's Play | We’ve noted a few times now that while Facebook gets a lot of justified heat for its privacy scandals, the stuff going on in the cellular data and app market in regards to location data makes many of Facebook’s privacy issues seem like a gr... |
| Dec 10, 2018 | AT&T Finds Yet Another Way To Nickel-And-Dime Its Broadband, TV Customers | While AT&T’s marketing wing often likes to pat itself on the back for “innovation,” the company’s real skill set revolves around finding creative and ways to nickel-and-dime its own customers. Like the multiple times the company was cau... |
| Nov 16, 2018 | AT&T CEO Continues His Fake Calls For Real Privacy, Net Neutrality Laws | You’d be hard pressed to find a bigger enemy of consumer safeguards than the fine folks at AT&T. The company has a history of all manner of anti-competitive behavior, from making its bills harder to understand to help scammers rip off i... |
| Nov 6, 2018 | AT&T steps up copyright enforcement, kicks customers off network | Enlarge / The entrance to an AT&T store in San Francisco, California.
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| Nov 1, 2018 | All The Mergers In The World Apparently Can't Save AT&T From Cord Cutting | Over the last five years AT&T and Verizon have been desperately trying to pivot from stodgy, protectionist old telcos — to sexy new Millennial media juggernauts. And while this pivot effort has been notably expensive, the net result has... |
| Oct 19, 2018 | Streaming Exclusives Will Drive Users Back To Piracy And The Industry Is Largely Oblivious | As you probably have noticed, there’s a growing tide of streaming video services popping up to feed users who want a cheaper, more flexible alternative to traditional cable. By and large this has been a very good thing. It’s finally driving... |
| Oct 18, 2018 | NY's AG Is Trying To Tie Major ISPs To Those Bogus Net Neutrality Comments | Last year you might recall that the New York AG’s office began investigating who was behind all of those bogus comments that flooded the FCC’s website during the net neutrality repeal. As we noted then, “somebody” paid a proxy organization ... |
| Oct 17, 2018 | DOJ Continues To Point Out A Mega-Merged AT&T Will Jack Up Prices On Everybody | AT&T recently defeated the DOJ’s challenge to their $86 billion merger with Time Warner thanks to a comically narrow reading of the markets by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon. At no point in his 172-page ruling (which approved th... |
| Oct 11, 2018 | New Bill Tries To Ban Obnoxious Hidden Fees On Broadband, TV | For years we’ve talked about how the broadband and cable industry has perfected the use of utterly bogus fees to jack up subscriber bills, a dash of financial creativity it adopted from the banking and airline industries. Countless cable an... |
| Sep 19, 2018 | Google Fiber's 'Failure' Succeeded In Shining A Light On Pathetic Broadband Competition | We’ve mentioned several times how Google Fiber’s promise to revolutionize the broadband sector never really materialized. There’s a long list of reasons for that, from incumbent ISPs suing to stop Google’s access to utility poles, to Alphab... |
| Aug 19, 2018 | A review of Monitor-IO, a little gadget that wants to talk about your Internet | reader comments 146 with 86 posters participating, including story author
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| Aug 2, 2018 | Why Spectrum Asked a Man to Pay $133,000 to Install Broadband Internet in NYC | While the broadband industry likes to pretend the problem doesn’t exist, there remains countless corners of America where broadband still isn’t widely available. And for many, getting connected remains a Kafkaesque and comically-expensive a... |
| Jul 13, 2018 | The Cable TV & Broadband Sector Has A Nasty Billing Fraud Problem | As we’ve well discussed, the broadband and TV sector not only has some of the worst satisfaction scores in modern history. A lack of real competition has long allowed the industry to double down on all manner of bad behavior, whether that’s... |
| Jul 9, 2018 | Sprint, T-Mobile Execs Bullshit Congress On The Benefits Of Merger Mania | Sprint and T-Mobile last week went before Congress to literally argue that fewer competitors in the wireless space will magically result in… more competition in the wireless space. The two companies are trying to gain regulatory approval fo... |
| Jul 2, 2018 | Verizon's Sad Attempt To Woo Millennials Falls Flat On Its Face | We’ve noted repeatedly how Verizon really wants to pivot from stodgy, old protectionist telco to Millennial-focused media and advertising juggernaut as it makes a broader push for a greater slice of online advertising markets. Company execu... |
| Jun 26, 2018 | Judge In AT&T Merger Ruling Had Zero Understanding Of The Markets AT&T Now Dominates | So, we already discussed how the Judge that let the AT&T merger proceed showed a comically narrow reading of the media and telecom markets when he approved AT&T’s $86 billion Time Warner merger without a single condition. At no poin... |
| Jun 26, 2018 | Charter’s gigabit cable with no data caps is ready for 27 million homes | Enlarge / Charter's Spectrum Internet Gig rolled out to these new locations in June 2018.
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| Jun 20, 2018 | AT&T Is Terrified of California’s Proposed Net Neutrality Legislation | Riding a wave of merger mania, AT&T wants to ensure state and federal lawmakers are powerless to thwart its attempt to dominate the internet.
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| Jun 20, 2018 | Wireless Carriers Hope You Won't Notice Their Location Data Scandal Makes The Facebook, Cambridge Fracas Look Like Amateur Hour | When the Facebook, Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, we noted that however bad you thought that scandal was (and it certainly was bad), it couldn’t hold a candle to the routine privacy abuses that have occurred in the telecom sector for th... |
| Jun 20, 2018 | Sprint, T-Mobile to FCC: Our Job Killing, Competition Eroding Megamerger Will Create Jobs & Competition | Americans tend to be oddly gullible when it comes to megamerger promises. Especially over in the telecom sector. Time after time we’re told that the latest major deal will provide all manner of amazing synergies, jobs and added competition.... |
| Jun 18, 2018 | FCC, Big Telcos Take Aim At Line Sharing Rules In Bid To Further Hamstring Broadband Competition | So you might recall that part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was the concept of line sharing, or local loop unbundling. Simply, the rules set forth by that law required that incumbent telcos needed to share their networks with smalle... |
| Jun 6, 2018 | AT&T Ends Quest To Erode FTC Authority Over Broadband Providers | As we’ve noted for a while, the ISP attack on net neutrality is only one small part of a broader gambit to eliminate all federal and state oversight of telecom monopolies. Not only did the “Restoring Internet Freedom” net neutrality repeal ... |
| Jun 4, 2018 | Thanks To No Competition, Broadband Satisfaction Scores Plummet | For years now we’ve documented the shitshow that is broadband industry customer satisfaction. That shitshow is generally thanks to a continued lack of real competition in the space, which lets these companies not only mindlessly raise rates... |
| Jun 4, 2018 | Exclusive: Charter’s launching a wireless service called Spectrum Mobile, and we have all the details | We’ve known for a while that Charter is planning on launching its own cell plans, following on the success that Comcast has had with Xfinity Mobile. BGR has learned that Charter recently sent a consumer survey to some of its customers gaugi... |
| May 29, 2018 | Charter Claims NY Lawsuit Over Crappy Broadband Speeds Just An Evil, Netflix 'Cabal' | Early last year, Charter Spectrum was sued by New York State for selling broadband speeds the company knew it couldn’t deliver. According to the original complaint (pdf), Charter routinely advertised broadband speeds executives knew weren’t... |
| May 22, 2018 | Verizon Begins 'Testing' DSL Usage Caps It Refuses To Call Usage Caps | For years now broadband providers have used a lack of competition to impose all manner of obnoxious additional fees on the backs of broadband consumers. That includes arbitrary and obnoxious usage caps and overage charges, which not only ra... |
| May 17, 2018 | Charter Uses Net Neutrality Repeal To Claim States Can't Hold It Accountable For Shoddy Service, Failed Promises | While people remain exclusively fixated on the telecom industry’s attacks on net neutrality, the reality is companies like Comcast, Charter, AT&T and Verizon are busy trying to eliminate nearly all federal and state oversight of their b... |
| May 16, 2018 | Comcast Still Makes A Killing, Even When You Cut The Cord | While the rate of cord cutting is expected to double for Comcast this year, the phenomenon isn’t having as dire an impact on the company’s bottom line as you might expect. That’s thanks to Comcast’s growing monopoly over broadband in countl... |
| May 11, 2018 | AT&T Cans Exec Over Cohen Payment Kerfuffle, Pretends This Kind Of Influence Peddling Isn't Perfectly Routine | As you’ve probably seen, AT&T was recently exposed for paying $600,000 into a shady shell LLC operated by President Trump’s “fixer” Michael Cohen. Initially, AT&T tried to claim that the company had simply hired Cohen for “insight” ... |
| May 10, 2018 | Actors Hired To Play Consumers In Bid To Thwart Renewable Energy in New Orleans | The nation’s largest, incumbent utilities continue to engage in some pretty shady behavior to try and stop the unstoppable renewable energy (r)evolution. In Florida, for example, we noted how one utility created an entirely bogus consumer g... |
| May 9, 2018 | Comcast Prepares To Get Even Larger With Sky, Fox Acquisitions | The cable company Americans love to hate is about to go supernova. Comcast acquired NBC Universal back in 2011, giving the company unprecedented control of not only the conduit into the house, but also the information and news being sent ov... |
| May 9, 2018 | AT&T Stumbles As It Tries To Explain Why It Paid $200K To Cohen's Shady Shell Company | Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti yesterday dropped a bit of a bombshell on DC in the form of this document (pdf), which alleges that Trump lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen was engaged in far deeper, shadier financial shenanigans than ... |
| May 6, 2018 | AT&T accidentally blocked Cloudflare’s privacy DNS service | Last month, internet performance company Cloudflare announced a “privacy-first” alternative to the domain-name servers that are normally controlled by your internet service provider. By changing a couple settings on your device or in your b... |
| May 4, 2018 | AT&T explains why it blocked Cloudflare DNS: It was just an accident | Enlarge / Cloudflare's DNS service uses the 1.1.1.1 address.
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| May 3, 2018 | Charter’s wireless service might arrive next month, and the price sounds right | We’ve known for a while that Charter is planning on launching a new wireless service, using a mixture of Wi-Fi hotspots and Verizon’s network, but we just got more details. According to DSL Reports, Charter’s new wireless service will launc... |
| May 2, 2018 | Some Comcast Customers Won't Get The Latest Broadband Upgrades Without Buying Cable TV | As we’ve often noted, Comcast has been shielded from the cord cutting trend somewhat thanks to its growing monopoly over broadband. As users on slow DSL lines flee telcos that are unwilling to upgrade their damn networks, they’re increasing... |
| May 1, 2018 | Sprint, T-Mobile Try To Sell The Public On A Job-Killing, Competition Eroding Megamerger | Sprint and T-Mobile are once again talking megamerger. The two companies tried to merge in 2014, but had their romantic entanglements blocked by regulators who (quite correctly) worried that the elimination of one of just four major players... |
| Apr 29, 2018 | Comcast’s wireless service is such a good deal it’s losing the company money | Comcast recently started offering its own wireless service under the brand of Xfinity Mobile. The actual mobile service is provided by Verizon, and the plans are surprisingly cheap and flexible. We’ve said before that Xfinity Wireless is a ... |
| Apr 20, 2018 | New report reveals which wireless carriers get the most robocalls | Is there anything more annoying about phones than the influx of robocalls that the United States has experienced over the past few years? What was once a minor annoyance has ballooned into a full-blown plague, and the disease has continued ... |
| Apr 17, 2018 | Comcast To Sell Netflix Subscriptions In False Belief This Will Slow Cord Cutting | As we’ve noted previously, Comcast has enjoyed a little more resilience to the cord cutting threat than satellite TV and telco TV providers–thanks to its growing monopoly over broadband. As DSL users frustrated by lagging telco upgrades swi... |
| Apr 12, 2018 | ACLU: If Americans Want Privacy & Net Neutrality, They Should Build Their Own Broadband Networks | More than 750 towns and cities across the United States have been forced to build their own networks if they want anything close to next-generation broadband. These towns and cities aren’t doing this because it’s fun, they’re doing it as an... |
| Apr 12, 2018 | ISPs Use Facebook Scandal to Push For Bad Privacy Laws They Know They’ll Get To Write | Large ISPs that have spent countless hours fighting meaningful privacy protections are suddenly using the Facebook fracas to call for new privacy laws. Why? They know they’ll probably be the ones writing the legislation. ISPs like Comcast a... |
| Apr 11, 2018 | The Competition-Killing Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Nobody Asked For Is Back On The Menu | When last we checked in with T-Mobile and Sprint’s longstanding M&A dance of dysfunction, the deal had been scuttled after Sprint was unwilling to give up control post-merger. But something in the dynamic between the two companies (more... |
| Apr 11, 2018 | The Video Game Industry Joins The Lawsuit To Save Net Neutrality | The Electronic Software Association (ESA) has decided to take a break from making up piracy statistics to actually do something useful. |
| Apr 9, 2018 | CenturyLink Tries To Dodge Broadband Billing Lawsuit By Claiming It Technically Has No Subscribers | Broadband ISP CenturyLink has been on the receiving end of an ocean of lawsuits accusing the company of billing fraud after a whistleblower (who says they were fire for bringing it up to management) revealed systemic efforts to routinely ov... |
| Apr 8, 2018 | How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS | Encrypting DNS traffic between your device and a "privacy-focused" provider can keep someone from spying on where your browser is pointed or using DNS attacks to send you somewhere else.
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