AT&T (Again) Caught Cheating Federal Subsidy Program For Poor People Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a giant U.S. telecom monopoly has been ripping off a federal program designed to help the country’s low income residents. AT&T last week qui…

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Telecoms Bankroll More Misleading Attacks On Community Broadband Networks I’ve written for years about how U.S. broadband is expansive, patchy, and slow thanks to mindless consolidation, regulatory capture, regional monopolization, and limited competition…

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Study: 76% Of U.S. Residents Want Government To Do Something About Soaring Broadband Prices A new U.S. News And World Report survey of 2,500 Americans across the five most populous U.S. states (PA, TX, NY, CA, and FL) found that U.S. broadband prices continue to soar for most users. Most …

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Your ISP Now Requires A Broadband ‘Nutrition Label’ To Clearly Show You You’re Being Ripped Off After countless years pondering the idea, the FCC in 2022 announced that it would start politely asking the nation’s lumbering telecom monopolies to affix a sort of “nutrition label” on t…

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“I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock We obtained 900 complaints the FCC received about T-Mobile’s infamous price hike.

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T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users Carriers fight plan to require unlocking of phones 60 days after activation.

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No Longer Consumer Friendly: T-Mobile Fights FCC Phone Unlocking Effort Back in July, the Biden FCC voted to make unlocking your phone easier. As a result, the agency is now crafting new rules that would require that wireless carriers unlock customers’ mobile phones wi…

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After Bleeding TV Subscribers For Years, Cable Giants Now Losing Broadband Customers To Home 5G, Community-Owned Fiber For much of the last decade, cable giants like Comcast (Xfinity) and Charter (Spectrum) have been protected from TV “cord cutting” by one simple fact: they enjoyed a monopoly over broad…

After Bleeding TV Subscribers For Years, Cable Giants Now Losing Broadband Customers To Home 5G, Community-Owned Fiber | Techdirt

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Trump FCC Pick Thinks Broadband Caps Are Great, Likens Them To Coffee Refills(?) As we recently noted, the FCC has announced that’s finally “taking a look at” broadband usage caps. We’ve noted for decades how such limits are completely artificial, techni…

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