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1 year ago

Trump FCC Boss Declares All Racism In Broadband Deployment Magically Solved, Proclaims To End Agency’s Civil Rights Reforms The 2021 infrastructure bill earmarked $42.5 billion in broadband subsidies that will be coming to the states starting this year. But it also tasked the FCC with creating rules surrounding “d…

Trump FCC Boss Declares All Racism In Broadband Deployment Magically Solved, Proclaims To End Agency’s Civil Rights Reforms | Techdirt

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#RegulateBigTelecom #OpposeTrumpsAmerika #GOPFourthReich #NoNazis #StopFascism #SaveDemocracy

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1 year ago

AT&T Pouts, Pulls Home 5G Service From NY State Over Law Requiring It Provide $15 To Poor People To be clear up front, AT&T is a predatory telecom monopolist. It works tirelessly to lobby (and sometimes bribe) government for favorable treatment as it works tirelessly to undermine competiti…

AT&T Pouts, Pulls Home 5G Service From NY State Over Law Requiring It Provide $15 To Poor People | Techdirt

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#RegulateBigTelecom #EnforceAntitrustLaws #CapitalismKills

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1 year ago

ISP failed to comply with New York’s $15 broadband law—until Ars got involved Optimum wasn’t ready to comply with law, rejected low-income man’s request twice.

ISP failed to comply with New York’s $15 broadband law—until Ars got involved - Ars Technica

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#RegulateBigTelecom

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1 year ago

Verizon Class Action Nets Piddly Payouts Over Company’s Completely Bogus Fees Last year U.S. broadband giant Verizon faced yet another class action lawsuit for sleazy, misleading fees. This latest $100 million class action alleged that Verizon for years ripped off its custom…

Verizon Class Action Nets Piddly Payouts Over Company’s Completely Bogus Fees | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2025/01/21/v...

#RegulateBigTelecom

mvario

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1 year ago

AT&T kills home Internet service in NY over law requiring $15 or $20 plans AT&T pulls 5G home Internet from New York to protest state affordability law.

AT&T kills home Internet service in NY over law requiring $15 or $20 plans - Ars Technica

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#RegulateBigTelecom

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1 year ago

Telecoms Glom Onto ‘AI’ Hype Cycle In A Fruitless Bid To Make 5G Seem Interesting We’ve noted for several years how the “race to 5G” was largely just hype by telecoms and hardware vendors eager to sell more gear and justify high U.S. mobile data prices. While 5G does provid…

Telecoms Glom Onto ‘AI’ Hype Cycle In A Fruitless Bid To Make 5G Seem Interesting | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2025/01/13/t...

5G hype + AI hype = nothingburger

#RegulateBigTelecom

mvario

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1 year ago

Now Telecoms Are Fighting Among Themselves Over Who Lies More About ‘Unlimited Data’ For decades now, U.S. wireless carriers have sold consumers “unlimited data” plans that actually have all manner of sometimes hidden throttling, caps, download limits, and restrictions. And every f…

Now Telecoms Are Fighting Among Themselves Over Who Lies More About ‘Unlimited Data’ | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2025/01/09/n...

#RegulateBigTelecom #JailCEOs #SupportCommunityBroadband

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1 year ago

Trumplican 6th Circuit Just Killed Net Neutrality (And Whatever Was Left Of Pathetic U.S. Broadband Consumer Protection) The telecom industry (with the help of the recent Trump Supreme Court), has been drooling for months at the prospect that the Trump-stocked courts would soon finally deliver the killing blow to FCC…

Trumplican 6th Circuit Just Killed Net Neutrality (And Whatever Was Left Of Pathetic U.S. Broadband Consumer Protection) | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2025/01/03/t...

#RestoreNetNeutrality #RegulateBigTelecom

mvario

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1 year ago

Mindlessly ‘Deregulating’ U.S. Telecom Contributed to The Worst Hack In U.S. History For the better part of thirty years telecom giants (and the consultants, think tanks, and lobbyists paid to defend them) have fought against every effort at coherent federal oversight. It didn&#821…

Mindlessly ‘Deregulating’ U.S. Telecom Contributed to The Worst Hack In U.S. History | Techdirt

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#RegulateBigTelecom #RepealCALEA

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1 year ago

Supreme Court Won’t Help Big Telecom Kill NY Law Requiring Affordable Broadband For Poor People During peak COVID in 2021, when everybody was freaking out about how shitty and expensive U.S. broadband was for telecommuting and home education, NY state officials had an idea: what if we pass a …

Supreme Court Won’t Help Big Telecom Kill NY Law Requiring Affordable Broadband For Poor People | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2024/12/23/s...

#RegulateBigTelecom #EnforceAntitrustLaws

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1 year ago

AT&T, Verizon Fail To Inform Customers About Major Salt Typhoon Hack For the better part of the last thirty years, telecom giants and “free market” libertarian think tanks have told anybody who’d listen that gutting regulatory oversight of the U.S.…

AT&T, Verizon Fail To Inform Customers About Major Salt Typhoon Hack | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2024/12/17/a...

#RegulateBigTelecom #EndCorporateLobbying

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1 year ago

Wyden Law Would Give FCC Greater Power Over Telecom’s Lax Cybersecurity In Wake Of Ugly Salt Typhoon Hack We’ve noted for decades that U.S. telecom security and privacy standards aren’t great. T-Mobile has been hacked so many times in the last five years it’s easy to lose count. AT&am…

Wyden Law Would Give FCC Greater Power Over Telecom’s Lax Cybersecurity In Wake Of Ugly Salt Typhoon Hack | Techdirt

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#RegulateBigTelecom

mvario

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1 year ago

AT&T Refuses To Upgrade Millions Of DSL Customers To Fiber Despite Untold Billions In Taxpayer Subsidies And Government Favors Four years years ago AT&T, a company that, for years, cheapened out on upgrading its broadband lines to fiber, effectively stopped selling DSL. While that’s understandable given the limitations…

AT&T Refuses To Upgrade Millions Of DSL Customers To Fiber Despite Untold Billions In Taxpayer Subsidies And Government Favors | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2024/12/13/a...

#RegulateBigTelecom #EndCorporateLobbying #CapitalismKills #RaiseCorporateTaxes

mvario

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1 year ago

Senator Ernst Wants To Kill Billions In Broadband Infrastructure Grants For No Coherent Reason The 2021 infrastructure bill is poised to deliver $42.5 billion in broadband subsidies to the states under a program called Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment (BEAD). This prog…

Senator Ernst Wants To Kill Billions In Broadband Infrastructure Grants For No Coherent Reason | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2024/12/04/s...

#SupportBEAD #RegulateBigTelecom

mvario

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1 year ago

Net Neutrality Is Dead As A Doornail Under Trump 2.0 While the concept has been endlessly demonized by right wing media (working hand in moist hand with shitty companies like AT&T and Comcast), net neutrality was always well intentioned. It was, …

Net Neutrality Is Dead As A Doornail Under Trump 2.0 | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2024/11/21/n...

#NetNeutrality #RegulateBigTelecom #TrumpsAmerika #GOPFourthReich #NoNazis #StopFascism #SaveDemocracy

mvario

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1 year ago

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…

AT&T (Again) Caught Cheating Federal Subsidy Program For Poor People | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2024/11/05/a...

#RegulateBigTelecom #RenewACP #GigiSohnForFCC

mvario

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1 year ago

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…

Telecoms Bankroll More Misleading Attacks On Community Broadband Networks | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2024/11/04/t...

#SupportCommunityBroadband #RegulateBigTelecom #GigiSohnForFCC

mvario

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1 year ago

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 …

Study: 76% Of U.S. Residents Want Government To Do Something About Soaring Broadband Prices | Techdirt

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#RegulateBigTelecom #EnforceAntitrustLaws #RenewACP #BroadbandPriceControl #GigiSohnForFCC

mvario

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1 year ago

Comcast, Charter Sue FTC Over Efforts To Make Canceling Services Easier Earlier this month the FTC announced it was modifying some existing rules to crack down on companies that make it extremely difficult to cancel services. The agency’s revamp of its 1973 “Nega…

Comcast, Charter Sue FTC Over Efforts To Make Canceling Services Easier | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2024/10/29/c...

#SupportLinaKhan #PeopleBeforeCorporations #RegulateBigTelecom

mvario

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1 year ago

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…

Your ISP Now Requires A Broadband ‘Nutrition Label’ To Clearly Show You You’re Being Ripped Off | Techdirt

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#RegulateBigTelecom #NetNeutrality #NoBroadbandCaps #GigiSohnForFCC #PriceControlsNow

mvario

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1 year ago

“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.

“I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock - Ars Technica

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#RegulateBigTelecom #GigiSohnForFCC #PeopleBeforeCorporations

mvario

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1 year ago

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.

T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users - Ars Technica

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#RegulateBigTelecom #GigiSohnForFCC #PeopleBeforeCorporations

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1 year ago

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…

No Longer Consumer Friendly: T-Mobile Fights FCC Phone Unlocking Effort | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2024/10/23/n...

#RegulateBigTelecom #GigiSohnForFCC #PeopleBeforeCorporations

mvario

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1 year ago

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

www.techdirt.com/2024/10/22/a...

#RegulateBigTelecom #PeopleBeforeCorporations #GigiSohnForFCC

mvario

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1 year ago

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…

Trump FCC Pick Thinks Broadband Caps Are Great, Likens Them To Coffee Refills(?) | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2024/10/21/t...

#NoBroadbandCaps #RegulateBigTelecom #EnforceAntitrustLaws #GigiSohnForFCC

mvario

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1 year ago

FCC Tries To Pre-Empt Telecom Industry Claim That The Supreme Court Neutered Its Authority To Protect Consumers As noted a few times, recent Supreme Court rulings have thrown most U.S. regulatory enforcement into operational and legal chaos. The dismantling of Chevron in particular now dictates that regulato…

FCC Tries To Pre-Empt Telecom Industry Claim That The Supreme Court Neutered Its Authority To Protect Consumers | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2024/10/03/f...

#RegulateBigTelecom #ReverseChevron #ExpandSCOTUS #SCOTUSCorruption

mvario

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1 year ago

Cox Sues Rhode Island Because It Dared To Use Infrastructure Bill Money To Fund Broadband Competition As we’ve mentioned a few times, $42.5 billion in taxpayer-funded broadband subsidies will soon start hitting the states next year courtesy of the 2021 infrastructure bill’s Broadband, E…

Cox Sues Rhode Island Because It Dared To Use Infrastructure Bill Money To Fund Broadband Competition | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2024/09/30/c...

#RegulateBigTelecom #NetNeutrality #SaveDemocracyVoteBlue #StopFascism #StopProject2025

mvario

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1 year ago

GOP Holds Show Hearing To Complain About Providing Affordable Broadband To Poor People Over the next six months, states are poised to receive more than $42.5 billion in taxpayer subsidies to help fund broadband rollouts around the country. A lot of this money is getting dumped into t…

GOP Holds Show Hearing To Complain About Providing Affordable Broadband To Poor People | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2024/09/11/g...

#StopBigTelecom #RegulateBigTelecom #RenewACP #GOPKilledACP #SaveDemocracyVoteBlue #StopFascism #StopProject2025