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Weekend Open Thread - Ready, Set, Pontificate!

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Newly found Android malware infects millions: report MSNBC.com America abandoning DSL in favor of faster cable theregiste... Similar stories ...
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It's Time to Stop Buying the Capacity Crisis Myth - Like the 'Exaflood,' Looming Wireless Apocalypse a Lie

Anybody who warns of an unavoidable capacity crisis on wireline or wireless networks is lying in order to sell you something.... Similar stories ...
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NAB Takes Pot Shot at Time Warner Cable Earnings - Argues Carriage Fees Account for Less Than 1% of Cable Bill

The National Association of Broadcasters is highlighting Time Warner Cable's 44% jump in net profit as an example of how retr... Similar stories ...
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Cogeco User Socked With Thousands in Overages - Company Imposes Even Higher Penalties to 'Improve Experience'

Back in April of 2009, Canadian cable operator Cogeco foisted metered billing on the back of their customers, applying caps a... Similar stories ...
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Cablevision Employees Unionize For First Time Ever - In a Cable Industry Where Just 2-4% Are in Unions

"It s very hard to retire here," a Cablevision installer complained to the New York Times earlier this month. "You get hurt, ... Similar stories ...
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New CRTC Boss is Ex Rogers, Bell Exec - The Revolving Door Spins Ever Faster

We've often talked about how Canada was actually seeing some significant growth in their broadband sector early on, with user... Similar stories ...
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Hawaiian Politician Backs Away From ISP Tracking Law - 'We Do Not Want to Know Where Everyone Goes on the Internet'

Yesterday we noted that a new law being proposed in Hawaii would require that ISPs log the subscriber information and website... Similar stories ...
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Hawaiian politician backs away from Web dossier law cnet.com Europe drops Phorm-related UK Internet privacy infringement c... Similar stories ...
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One third of English councils set for broadband

Plans for superfast broadband with speeds of 24Mbps are progressing well in most local authorities, says Communications Minis... Similar stories ...
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Hawaii make keep track of all websites visited cnet.com For the good of the nation, broadband for all cio.com Cheap int... Similar stories ...
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Cable is Eating DSL's Lunch in Un-Upgraded Markets - Telco Investors Get What They Were Willing to Pay For

Both AT&T and Verizon saw continued strong growth in wireless in this week's earnings reports, but took a bit of a beating in... Similar stories ...
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Wilmington First to Deploy White Space Broadband - Wilmington Park Deploys Improved Range 'Super Wi-Fi'

User uid://1421422 directs our attention to the fact that New Hanover County, North Carolina, this week became the first coun... Similar stories ...
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AT&T CEO Stephenson Pouts About T-Mobile Deal - Hints Hikes Are Due to T-Mobile Deal Being Blocked

AT&T last week raised rates on all their wireless data plans, users now having the option of a $20, 300 MB plan or a $30, 3GB... Similar stories ...
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The EU Starts Looking At Tough Online Privacy Protections - U.S. Government, Ad/Software/Content/Telecom Industries Immediately Whine

Here in the United States the press and politicians pay a lot of lip service to caring about privacy, but given that the mode... Similar stories ...
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Time Warner Cable Net Profit Jumps 44% - Guess Metered Billing Wasn't Necessary After All?

A few years ago you might recall that Time Warner Cable executives claimed they wouldn't be able to survive financially if th... Similar stories ...
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'Jailbreaking' Exemption to DMCA Expires Soon - EFF Pushes to Ensure Jailbreaking Remains Legal

As it stands, the often empowering act of jailbreaking your device remains perfectly legal thanks to an exemption embedded in... Similar stories ...
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Hawaii Pushing Major New ISP Surveillance Laws - All User Behavior Recorded, With No Pesky Privacy Protections

As we noted earlier this week, Senator Lamar Smith not only drafted SOPA, but he also is pushing a law that would require tha... Similar stories ...
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AT&T Posts Quarterly Loss Due to T-Mobile Deal Implosion - Posted a Net Loss in Broadband Users Due to DSL Defections

AT&T released their fourth quarter earnings, posting a fourth quarter net loss of $6.7 billion, or $1.12 a share, on revenue ... Similar stories ...
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The human cost built into iPads nytimes.com RapidShare Attorney: If We're Shut Down Like Megaupload, Then YouTube, Dropbox... Similar stories ...
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Netflix's Demise Was Greatly Exaggerated - Total Subscribers up 25% From Last Year Despite Missteps

While Netflix still dominates the streaming video market to the tune of 65%, 2011 wasn't a particularly pretty PR year for th... Similar stories ...
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Wednesday Evening Links -

How Apple Support helps iPhone thieves MSNBC.com Sprint Reveals More on Roaming, and AT&T Pounces wirelessweek.com Anal... Similar stories ...
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Industry Pushing Canadian Version of SOPA - Complete With Internet Filters, ISP Content Babysitting

While SOPA/PIPA is all but dead here in the States, Canadian law professor Michael Geist notes that the entertainment industr... Similar stories ...
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Georgia Wants to Be a Broadband Backwater - Yet Another Attack on Community Broadband

You'll recall that last year, after four years of lobbying by Time Warner Cable and CenturyLink, North Carolina passed a law ... Similar stories ...
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Cablevision, Verizon Still Bickering Over Ads - NAD Gives Cablevision Wrist Slap for '3X Faster' Claim

Cablevision took a massive public relations beating four months ago after an FCC study showed that the company failed to prov... Similar stories ...
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Google Fiber Runs Face First Into Bureaucracy - As Unfounded Rumor of Surewest Acquisition Swirls

Last week we noted that Google's effort to deploy 1 Gbps fiber in Kansas City had run face first into some bureaucracy, with ... Similar stories ...
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UK IT budgets under pressure in 2012

UK IT budgets will remain flat in 2012, a worldwide survey of more than 2,500 IT professionals has revealed. Similar stories ...
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CRTC Officially Cites Rogers For Neutrality Violations - ISP Has Until February 3 to Resolve Issues

Recent data shows that Canadian cable ISP Rogers is the worst ISP tracked by MLabs when it comes to meddling with, throttling... Similar stories ...
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O2 investigates security risk allegation

UK mobile operator O2 is investigating claims it is leaking customer data by sending their phone numbers to websites they visit Similar stories ...
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Wednesday Morning Links -

President Cites 'Incomplete' Broadband Buildout broadcastingcable.com The revenge of the Baby Bell's washingtonpost.com ... Similar stories ...
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Mitchells & Butlers completes private cloud and network

Hospitality company Mitchells & Butlers has set up a network managed by Fujitsu in its move to transfer 1,600 outlets to priv... Similar stories ...
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Tuesday Evening Links -

Is France's 'three strikes' anti-piracy banhammer working? theregister.co.uk Dish pitches revised LTE plan wirelessweek.c... Similar stories ...
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PrePrint: Modeling and Restraining Mobile Virus Propagation

Viruses and malwares can spread from computer networks into mobile networks with the rapid growth of smart cellphone users. I... Similar stories ...
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PrePrint: Estimation of Task Persistence Parameter from Pervasive Medical Systems with Censored Data

This paper compares two statistical models of location within a smart flat during the day. The location is then identified wi... Similar stories ...
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PrePrint: A MAC Sensing Protocol Design for Data Transmission with More Protection to Primary Users

MAC protocols to sense channels for data transmission have been widely investigated for the secondary users to efficiently ut... Similar stories ...
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PrePrint: Cooperative Wireless-Based Obstacle/Object Mapping and See-Through Capabilities in Robotic Networks

In this paper, we develop a theoretical and experimental framework for the mapping of obstacles (including occluded ones), in... Similar stories ...
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If You're Waiting on FiOS, You Could Be Waiting a While - 30% of Verizon Customers May Wait Years for Upgrades

We've noted often how with the exception of a few major existing franchise obligations, Verizon's FiOS upgrades are essential... Similar stories ...
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Cox Playing With Discount TV Tier - Launches 'TV Economy' Tier in Select Markets

Over the last year cable operators have paid a lot of lip service to families that are struggling financially, but has stubbo... Similar stories ...
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Comcast Takes Heat for Interrupting NFL Playoffs - Eli Manning Versus Comcast Xfinity Advertisements

Comcast is taking some heat this week after key moments during the NFC Championship Game were interrupted by Comcast ads taki... Similar stories ...
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Verizon Posts $2 Billion Loss - Largely Related to Pensions, iPhone Subsidy Costs

Verizon has released their fourth quarter 2011 earnings, and while the company posted a whopping $28.4 billion in sales, they... Similar stories ...
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Instead of SOPA, Beat Piracy With Better Product - Cable, Broadcast Wants to Have Cake and Eat it Too

For years the entertainment and cable industry have wanted to have their cake and eat it too, insisting they want to stop pir... Similar stories ...
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What Now for the UK’s Digital Economy Act? - UK's File Swapping Assault Not Working Out So Well

Earlier this week Andrew Crossley, sole solicitor ACS Law, finally went before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal: he was s... Similar stories ...
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CenturyLink Shutters Qwest VoIP This Month - Forgets to Tell Some of the Service's Users

Back in November CenturyLink sent many customers notices saying they were shutting down Qwest's VoIP service in a few months,... Similar stories ...
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Tuesday Morning Links -

802.11ac 5G Gigabit Wi-Fi potentially coming to Apple s iPhone 5 and iPad 3 knowyourmobile.com Small cells taking off, f... Similar stories ...
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Video: Portsmouth Fire and Rescue pilot wireless rescue dog

Wireless firm Wood & Douglas has debuted wireless comms technology for rescue dogs at the Mobile World Congress preview Similar stories ...
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Monday Evening Links -

MPAA threat sparks White House petition for bribery probe theregister.co.uk Bill in Senate will limit public broadband aj... Similar stories ...
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AT&T, Verizon Have Plenty of LTE Spectrum - Verizon's Just Been More Efficient With Theirs

We've noted in recent weeks Wall Street analysts, trying to boost acquisition rumors and stock holdings, have been insisting ... Similar stories ...
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The National Broadband Map Goes Mobile - Now You Can Get Unreliable Data on the Go!

In February of last year the government launched the nation's first ever national broadband map. Unfortunately, the map was m... Similar stories ...
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AT&T's Still Not Enforcing DSL, U-Verse Usage Caps - Still Clearly Having Problems With Internal Systems

In March of last year we were the first to exclusively report that AT&T would be imposing caps on DSL (150GB) and U-Verse (25... Similar stories ...
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With SOPA Postponed, Attention Shifts to ACTA - As Activists Try to Keep Momentum Going

As we've discussed, the ACTA took all of this country's worst copyright ideas --many of them enshrined in the controversial D... Similar stories ...
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MegaUpload Pops Back Up (Sort Of) - As Digital Locker Companies Run for Cover

After being taken offline by the U.S. government in a massive global raid, MegaUpload appears to have popped right back onlin... Similar stories ...
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WildBlue Users: Exede Is Not What You Promised Us - Faster Speeds Come With Higher Prices, Lower Caps

The other day we noted that while ViaSat heavily hyped their new "Exede" satellite broadband service at CES, now that the ser... Similar stories ...
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France Telecom Refuses to Compete on Price - Is it OK if we Just Pretend This Isn't Happening?

Earlier this month new French wireless ISP Free started turning heads by offering some disruptive pricing, including a free l... Similar stories ...
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RIM CEOs to Give Up Posts - Though Shake Up May Not Be Disruptive Enough

After product delays, multi-continent unexplained service outages and lackluster offerings, questions as to how and why RIM's... Similar stories ...
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Buyer's Guide: The future of virtualisation

As businesses virtualise datacentre infrastructure, they experience the limitation of their existing hardware, IT administrat... Similar stories ...
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PrePrint: Bounded-Hop Energy-Efficient Liveness of Flocking Swarms

In this paper we consider a set of n mobile wireless nodes, which have no information about each other. The only information ... Similar stories ...
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PrePrint: Robust Distributed Power Control in Cognitive Radio Networks

We propose a robust distributed uplink power allocation algorithm for underlay cognitive radio networks (CRNs) with a view to... Similar stories ...
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PrePrint: On Random Access Scheduling for Multimedia Traffic in Multi-hop Wireless Networks with Fading Channels

In this paper, we develop distributed random access scheduling schemes that exploit the time-varying nature of fading channel... Similar stories ...
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Friday Evening Links -

Megaupload raid seen as declaration of war; Anonymous launches 'biggest attack ever', brings down RIAA, Universal Music, the ... Similar stories ...
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Weekend Open Thread - Hello there. Have Something to Say?

The weekend is here, so please empty your thoughts into the comment section below. Just remember to clean up after yourselves... Similar stories ...
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Untethered Jailbreak Arrives for iPhone 4S, iPad 2 - 'Absinthe A5' Tool Arrives for Apple Owners

Those eager to avoid their carrier's monthly "because we can" tethering fee may be interested to know that a fully untethered... Similar stories ...
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ITU Certifies New 100 Mbps Wireless Standards - LTE Advanced, WirelessMAN-Advanced (WiMax 2)

With people already confused over what constitutes 4G wireless broadband, the International Telecommunication Union threw ano... Similar stories ...
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Competitors Worry About Cozy Verizon, Cable Deal - As FCC and DOJ Begin Taking Look at Antitrust Issues

Consumer advocates remain worried that Verizon's co-marketing partnership and spectrum deal with the cable industry contains ... Similar stories ...
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PIPA, SOPA One Step Closer to Dead - SOPA/PIPA Support Becomes Liability for Democrats

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced that he will postpone a test vote scheduled for next week on PIPA, indicating... Similar stories ...
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DOJ, ICE Shut Down MegaUpload - RIAA/MPAA's Personal Police Force Goes Wild

MegaUpload, one of the world's largest file-swapping sites (actually one of the world's largest websites, period) was shut do... Similar stories ...
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Verizon Delays VoLTE Until 2013 - Initial Deployments Hurt by Incomplete LTE Upgrades

Aside from the faster speeds offered courtesy of LTE, users should ultimately come to expect higher quality voice service ove... Similar stories ...
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O3b Satellite Service One Year From Launch - Google-funded Effort Aimed at Connecting Have Nots

A few years ago O3b Networks was getting plenty of press for a $750 million plan to bring broadband to many have-nots with th... Similar stories ...
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Intel profit boost driven by internet growth

Intel Corporation has reported full-year revenue of $54bn and posted fourth quarter revenue of $13.9bn. Similar stories ...
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Virgin Mobile Starts Throttling March 23 - Use More than 2.5 GB, Get Slowed to 256 kbps

Last July Sprint-owned wireless carrier Virgin Mobile changed up their pricing plans significantly, and announced they'd be i... Similar stories ...
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Boston Mayor Trying to Fight Relentless Comcast Rate Hikes - Begging FCC for Authority to Stop 80% Hikes Over Three Years

Boston is like many cities and suffers from a lack of cable competition and increasingly-eroded regulatory authority, meaning... Similar stories ...
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Charter Informs Users of Price Hikes - For Both TV and Internet Services

uid://1813438 writes in to note that Charter Communications is just the latest in a long line of companies informing users of... Similar stories ...
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SOPA Protests Result in Political Backpedaling - The Rise of a New Age in Technology Activism?

While the MPAA decried yesterday's SOPA/PIPA protests as a "publicity stunt," it seems clear that the protests did have their... Similar stories ...
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AT&T Raises Wireless Data Prices, Caps Slightly - $20 for 300 MB, $30 for 3GB, or $50 for 5GB

AT&T ditched unlimited data pricing for the iPhone in June of last year, eliminating their $30 unlimited data tier and giving... Similar stories ...
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DirecTV Joins the Rate Hike Season Festivities - Informs 20 Million Users of 4% Price Hike

Several DirecTV users have written in to note that they're being informed of yet another round of rate hikes. An e-mail to us... Similar stories ...
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Windstream Raises Prices on All DSL Tiers - Plenty of Price Hikes With No Improved Speeds For Many

User uid://1577646 writes in to note that Windstream is informing DSL customers of some significant price hikes. "3Mbps -- wh... Similar stories ...
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Google's 1 Gbps Fiber Quietly Seeing Delays - Debates Over Pole Attachment Rates, Installation

It's hard to suffer a technical delay when you've consistently been a little murky about when your service will be up and run... Similar stories ...
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A political coming-of-age for the tech industry nytimes.com PIPA support collapses as 13 more senators announce opposition... Similar stories ...
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Wednesday Evening Links -

Google Fiber work in Kansas City, Kansas is delayed by dispute over how its wires are hung kansascity.com AT&T increases p... Similar stories ...
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Five More Markets Get Verizon LTE Tomorrow - With LTE Expansion in Atlanta, Houston and Spokane

Verizon today announced that the company will be pushing their shiny new LTE network into five additional markets tomorrow. A... Similar stories ...
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Bloomberg REALLY Wants AT&T to Buy Somebody - AT&T Really Needs Spectrum (Except When They Don't)

Last month we noted how some analysts on Wall Street have gotten the press to relentlessly push the narrative that with the T... Similar stories ...
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LightSquared: GPS Testing Was Rigged - Company Claims Entire Process Bogus, Shrouded in Secrecy

LightSquared has been under fire for the fact that tests have shown that their proposed hybrid LTE/satellite network interfer... Similar stories ...
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Comcast Swears They Didn't Lie About, Squat On Spectrum - Company Considered, Backed Away From Wireless Play

Buried under the roar of CES recently was a little swipe at Comcast by Republican FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, who sugge... Similar stories ...
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ViaSat's 12 Mbps Exede Arrives, Plays Hard to Get - January 16 Launch Actually Means March 1 (or Never) For Many

Last month at CES ViaSat spent a lot of time hyping their new "Exede" 12 Mbps satellite broadband service, which the company ... Similar stories ...
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'Unlimited' Definition Confuses T-Mobile, Walmart - New $45 No-Contract Plan Offers Unlimited-But-Limited Data

Last October T-Mobile did something a little uncharacteristic for a wireless provider: they released a plan clearly acknowled... Similar stories ...
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June 6: World IPv6 Launch - Comcast, AT&T and Time Warner Cable On Board

The time for testing is drawing to a close, as The Internet Society has announced that June 6 will be World IPv6 Launch Day. ... Similar stories ...
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SOPA Lives, as Internet Protests - MPAA Slams Blackouts as 'Publicity Stunt'

While SOPA didn't have a particularly good weekend, reports that the bill had been shelved appear to be premature. Bill co-sp... Similar stories ...
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The Internet 2011 in numbers Royal Pingdom RIM pushing for sale to Samsung bgr.com 802.11ac to become mainstream WLAN s... Similar stories ...
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PrePrint: Content Sharing Over Smartphone-based Delay-tolerant Networks

With the growing number of smartphone users, peer-to-peer ad hoc content sharing has become more feasible. On the other hand,... Similar stories ...
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Tuesday Evening Links -

Sprint updates phones to eliminate Carrier IQ cnet.com Comcast, TWC, AT&T To Join 'World IPv6 Launch 2012' Event; Aimed at... Similar stories ...
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Chattanooga Gets to See What Broadband Competition Looks Like - Lower Prices, Better Services, More Attractive to Businesses

For many years we've tracked Chattanooga, Tennessee's attempt to wire the entire city with fiber to the home using the local ... Similar stories ...
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CarrierIQ Still May Face Investigation - As HTC Keeps Promise to Remove Software on Sprint

The second half of 2012 wasn't very much fun for software developer CarrierIQ, after its stealthy and stubborn embedded hands... Similar stories ...
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Rogers Unveils $2 Broadband Price Hike For All - Latest Hike Not Received Well by Users

Users in our Rogers forum note that the Canadian cable operator is informing users that as of March 1, most broadband custome... Similar stories ...
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SOPA Protests, Blackouts Still Planned - Wikipedia, Reddit Among Sites Going Dark in Protest

Despite SOPA and PIPA running into a bit of a brick wall over the weekend, politicians and entertainment industry lobbyists w... Similar stories ...
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Retrans Blackouts Getting Out of Hand - Especially Considering How Much Subscribers Pay

Time Warner Cable and MSG still haven't resolved their ongoing dispute, resulting in a significant number of customers being ... Similar stories ...
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Sprint: No More WiMax Devices - Support Will Continue, But New Offerings End

Late in 2010 Sprint announced a new plan to retrofit all of their base stations not only with more energy efficient gear, but... Similar stories ...
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Comcast Still Faces Cable Modem Fee Lawsuit - Case May Move Forward After Clarification

Last week a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against Comcast by a plaintiff who claims Comcast sells broadband service witho... Similar stories ...
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Comcast, Verizon Partnership Begins - Seattle, Portland See New Service Bundles

Early last month Verizon signed a massive deal with the cable industry that not only involved grabbing $3.6 billion of cable ... Similar stories ...
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Google and Facebook say it's not possible to block offensive content that appears on their websites in controversial Indian c... Similar stories ...
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Data transfers that bypass the web to double in 2012

The amount of data transferred between devices using short-range wireless connectivity will increase this year as users attem... Similar stories ...
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Monday Evening Links -

Freedompop cagey about revenue model for 'free' mobile broadband service fiercebroadbandwireless.com Sprint done with WiMa... Similar stories ...
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