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AT&T Raises Dial-Up Prices 60% - To drive customers to their DSL services...
FCC Votes Tuesday on Cable Regulation - Doesn't look good for Martin's proposal...
Europe's 'Super Satellite' - European enginners get to work on Alphasat I-XL
Monday Morning Links -
Sprint and Nextel Never Really Merged - Internal battles amongst employees of both co
Qwest's Plans for the Future - Looking ahead is like looking through fog
Mobile Web will Differ from Desktop Internet - Developments in mobile Internet techno
The World Is Unhappy with Online Advertising - Targeted marketing causes concerns abo
SciFi Channel Launches Broadband Show - Will new gadget site attract a new brand of c
Helio Users Can Access TV Guide - Agreement brings new features to the devices
An Argument Against 'A La Carte' Cable - Prices would go up, programming would go dow
France Fights Piracy with New System - Three strikes and you're offline
NCTA and TiVo Announce SDV Solution - Release in the second quarter of 2008...
AT&T, Echostar Rumors Get Ridiculous - Cited insiders offer very different picture of
AT&T's Wireless Boss Speaks - About androids, auctions, and wireless broadband...
Average DSL Speeds By Country - Quarterly jump everywhere except North America, Middl
Tuesday Morning Links -
Google 'G-Drive' Coming - Potentially within a few months...
Plastic Fiber Can Transmit Data At 2.5Gbps - Korean researchers help ease the 'last m
Maine PUC Staff Urges Fairpoint Deal Rejection - Potential harm outweigh potential be
Verizon Wireless Opens Their Network - Is this a paradigm shift or just a public rela
Verizon's 'For Life' Pricing For Existing Customers? - Previously only for new users,
Verizon Wireless Opens Their Network, Sort Of - Is this a paradigm shift or just a pu
FCC Cable Regulation Vote Delayed - Lobbyists, Commisioners wrangle behind the scenes
When Cable Runs FTTH - Motorola tech takes aim at new developments
Embarq Offers Naked DSL - But only if you threaten to cancel service...
Wednesday Morning Links -
Late Night Fun At The FCC - Martin's plan runs into a brick wall...
Network Neutrality Fight: Round Two - Prepare for a new wave of ridiculous propaganda
Naked AT&T DSL Expands - Though AT&T still doesn't tell anyone about it...
FiOS TV Bug Fixes Coming - New update should resolve some issues...
The EFF 'Test Your ISP' Project - Group takes aim at Comcast, RST packet forgery
Verizon's Announcement Is About Per-Byte Billing - Not about offering consumers the u
U.S. Has No Idea How Wired It Is - Problem with inaccurate broadband stats continues.
Thursday Morning Links -
Verizon Wireless Picks 100Mbps LTE - Trials begin next year
3G iPhone Next Year, Says AT&T CEO - Also shrugs off Verizon announcement as "overblo
FCC Moves To Block Comcast Growth - Defeated Martin tries another route...
EMI To Cut Funding To RIAA? - New label owners looking to cut corners
20% of Comcast Users To See DOCSIS 3.0 in 2008 - Faster speeds coming, but not of the
Consumer Group Sues Sprint - For un-refunded data card billing mistakes
Embarq Explains Naked DSL Offer - Sort if...offering it all the time 'not strategic f
Linksys Directs Users To Phone Sex Line - Because of a Circuit City screw up...
Friday Morning Links -
Is WiMax In Trouble? - Things aren't looking up for well-hyped tech
Comcast Sets Tivo Pricing - Boston deployment to begin soon...
FCC Votes To Cap Comcast Growth - Cannot own more than 30% of pay TV market...
Comcast Sets TiVO Pricing - Boston deployment to begin soon...
Is AT&T Angry With Apple? - Or did AT&T CEO just screw up?
New Network Neutrality Laws May Do Little - ISPs fight, for their right, for 'reaonab
AT&T Lobbyists Rent Theater For Cowboys Game - Telco highlights U-Verse in midst of N
Google Will Bid In 700Mhz Auction - Makes their plan official ahead of deadline
Friday Open Thread - Vent your geek angst...
Analysts Say XM / Sirius Merger is “Imminent” - Stocks soar with the prediction
CableOne Rates Go Up ... Again - Television prices rise in what the company calls an
Ball State University Defends WiMax - Testing shows it to be consistently better than
YouTube is Where Viewers Watch Online Video - Other sites trying to get into the game
AT&T Raises Dial-Up Fees to Move Customers to DSL - Rate hike makes dial-up pricier t
Google Set to Become King of Wireless World - Potential to expand if they win the spe
How Oregon is Fighting RIAA - State attorney general questions RIAA's tactics
Should FCC Worry about TVoIP? - 'Cable is old, TVoIP matters,' says blogger
Schwarzenegger Seeks Digital Infrastructure Development - Believes broadband will bri
Striking Writers Use Viral Video to Garner Support - Making use of the technology tha
Qualcomm Supports Verizon's LTE Decision - Plans to work with LTE while still benefit
Monday Morning Links -
The Most Anti-Tech Organizations in America - AT&T, Verizon dominate top-five list...
UK: The Need For Fiber is 'Premature'? - Major UK incumbent takes the less expensive
AT&T: The Death Of The Pay Phone - Will exit pay phone business by the end of 2008...
Cable Giants Not Bidding In 700Mhz Auction - Time Warner, Comcast aren't interested..
Will Google Bid To Lose In Wireless Auction? - Not if they know what's good for them
Cox Hits 31 HD Channels - Network upgrades offer incremental additions...
Linksys Corrects Sex-Line Screwup - Takes control of misprinted number
Major AT&T DNS Outage - Impacting many users in BellSouth territory....
Tuesday Morning Links -
Traffic Shaping: Honesty Is The Best Policy - Would being direct about traffic shapin
Congress To Investigate FCC Boss - 'Breakdown in proper procedure at the FCC'
Cox Will Bid In 700Mhz Auction - Takes aim at 'convergence and mobility...'
MPAA 'University Toolkit' Violated Copyright - Ubuntu developer has kit pulled from I
AT&T Responds To Outage - Under investigation -- equipment 'impairment' to blame...
The Verizon Wireless Open Access Love In - Verizon: We Love Open Access. Why are you
T-Mobile Struggles With Flooding - Bothell, Washington data center swamped, support o
Shaw Users Get Powerboost - Free for Xtreme-I users, $2.95 for High-Speed users
Wednesday Morning Links -
FCC Denies Verizon Forbearance Request - Apparently can't see the competition Verizon
Wi-Fi Won't Kill Your Family After All -
Comcast Sales Slow - Housing slump blamed
Verizon Offers HD Video On Demand - 75 titles in five FiOS TV markets
Xohm Soft Launch This Week? - First signs of life from Sprint's WiMax network
MPAA: All ISPs Should Employ Piracy Filters - Insists that AT&T is only the first...
Ask DSLReports.com: When Will AT&T Get Fully Naked? - We ask the carrier to clarify t
Yes, The Glut Is Over - Operators beef up core networks
Thursday Morning Links -
AT&T: We Are The Most Open Wireless Company - Guess the iPhone is completely unlocked
Share Hentai Over Wi-Fi, Pay $300,000 - The House passes new Wi-Fi bill...
Hams To The Rescue In Northwest Flooding - The glue that held rescue and recovery tog
Verizon Readies FiOS Push Into Manhattan - Bendable fiber should ease installations..
Man Sues Comcast For 'Always On' Claim - Because of a 2005 connection outage...
ISPs Employ New Tracking, Ad Technology - NebuAd's deep packet inspection behavioral
Moviebeam Shutting Down December 15 -
Friday Morning Links -
Portable 3G to Wi-Fi Router - Turn your phone into a hotspot on the go...
JetBlue Testing In-Flight E-mail, IM - But no web browsing....yet....
Amsterdam Internet Exchange: 370Gbps - Operators expect to hit 1Tbps by end of 2008
Verizon Sued For GPL Violation - ILEC didn't provide Busybox source code...
Echostar To Become Dish Network Corp. - Split into two distinct companies...
Product Spotlight - TekSavvy Solutions DSL Service - It's all in the family...
ZDNET: The Evil EFF's Quest For Metered Bandwidth - EFF: ZDNET has no idea what they'
Comcast Stuffs Consumerist Poll - Still loses to that ragamuffin Verizon
Unions Take Aim At Verizon Fairpoint Tax Writeoff - Gosh, that sure could fund a lot
Friday Open Thread - Commodore 64 edition....
Bill Introduced to Change Cable Regulation Rules - Congresswoman seeks to get rid of
Court Allows Verizon Deregulation to Stand - No decision by the FCC turns out to be a
NY Governor Issues Funding for Statewide Broadband - Seeking to boost the economy thr
Comcast Bumps Public Access from Analog to Digital - Media producers say that the upg
File Sharing Blocked on Western Digital Storage Devices - Erring on the side of copyr
Femtomania and its Alternatives - Or how femtocells are like hybrid cars
FTC Takes Away Porn Pop-Ups - Adult Friend Finder settles without admitting guilt
Earthlink Delay Lets Houston Bridge Digital Divide - Developing hot spots instead of
Rapper 50 Cent Announces Support of File-Sharing - Despite the fact that his own labe
Tasmanian BPL Trial Scrapped - Hams are happy
Record in High-Def on your Cell Phone - Someday ...
Hulu Adds HD Gallery - Initial reviews of video streaming site seem positive
Monday Morning Links -
Verizon 100Mbps & Over-Subscription - Looking down the FiOS road a few years...
Charter Doubles HD Channel Count in Louisiana - Switched Digital video arrives in som
AT&T's Outage Mea Culpa - Trying to correct support implosion
AT&T Launches U-Verse in St. Louis - And portions of seventeen additional communities
Verizon Security Service Doesn't Detect Partner Spyware? - Also requires you run IE,
AT&T Beefs Up Core Network - 40Gbit/second upgrades continue...
7Mbps Verizon Residential DSL - Though so far only in Delaware...
Roadrunner Upgrading E-mail - More mailboxes, more storage, better parental controls.
Verizon Hints At New 7Mbps DSL - Not official, but faster tier does seem imminent...
ISPs Injecting Their Content Into Websites - Rogers tests new cap warning system, rai
U-Verse To Hit BellSouth Territory Soon - Atlanta first, though city will be small de
Sprint Modifies Their 'Unfees' - Feeling the heat from Missouri lawsuit?
Broadband Reports: Shooting For A Cause - Raising money for The National Center for M
AT&T Sets New U-Verse Goals - Including Bellsouth, aims to reach 30 million users by
U-Verse Hits BellSouth Territory - Atlanta first, though city will be small deploymen
Jet Blue Wi-Fi Not Fully Cooked - 2008 and Yahoo Mobile in flight is the best we can
Wednesday Morning Links -
Get Out Of Your Sprint Contract - Fee changes should void your contract
EarthLink a no-show at Philly Wi-Fi hearing - Company death watch continues...
Rogers Website Messages Irk Google - Is a fight about to break out over ad revenue?
Spam Now Accounts For 95% of All E-mail - According to anti-spam vendor...
U.S. Consumers Pay More For Triple Play - Though we're all apparently happy with our
The Dirt Cheap Last Mile - Meraki talks big, carries a small box
Charter Gets Cable Operator Of The Year Honors - Really?
DNS Hacks: 'Phishing 2.0' - Phishing gets more sophisticated
Thursday Morning Links -
MS, Google Fire Up White Space PR - Launch new Wireless Innovation Alliance
SureWest Acquires Everest Broadband - Doubles their triple-play customer base
Comcast Fights Bad Service Reputation - Can the nation's largest cable company cure w
890Mbps Ultra-Wideband - Pulse~LINK tests stomp the competition
AT&T's Telecommuting Crackdown - Old school stubborness or part of natural realignmen
Sprint & Clearwire To Kiss And Make Up? - Analysts think deal will be back on again i
The $85,000 Phone Bill - Unlimited? Not so much...
Friday Morning Links -
Cable Takes Legal Aim At FCC - Over ban on exclusive broadband contracts
Singapore To Build National 100Mbps Network - Open access, completed by 2015...
Con Men Scam Verizon UK - Pretend to be cops in UK data center heist
FiOS TV Hits Oregon - Prices, channels compared to Comcast
Fairpoint Deal Moves Forward - Maine PUC strikes preliminiary agreement with companie
Qwest's 'Excessive Use Policy' - Warning: Don't send 15,000,001 e-mails this month!
Comcast Sues NFL - NFL Network fight continues...
Friday Open Thread - Vent your geek angst
Xohm Soft Launch Set For Year’s End - So they say ...
Expert Dismantles EFF’s Analysis of Comcast Throttling - Says EFF doesn't even unders
Vonage Faces Patent Infringement Claim by Nortel - Shouldn't have filed that suit aga
Wisconsin Residents Have Concerns About U-Verse - State assembly changes franchise ru
Scientists Make Leap in Quantum Communications - Super-powerful computers still mostl
Senators to Block FCC Funding if Martin Won’t Delay Vote - Martin says he's going for
Independent Filmmakers Benefit from BitTorrent - An economic argument for piracy
Philadelphia as a Wi-Fi Case Study - New report reviews the history of the developing
Palm Treo Not Selling Well Enough to Keep People Employed - Ten percent of the compan
Comcast Employees Arrive Right in the Nick of Time - Saving people from arson fire ha
Cable Product Supplier Speaks About Industry - Trends and changes in cable needs
Warrantless Wiretapping Back on Table - Reid to introduce bill that includes telco im
Monday Morning Links -
U-Verse Arrives In Columbus - Taking install orders for next week's installations...
Crying Network Neutrality Wolf - Every technical hiccup is not a neutrality violation
More Qwest VDSL Details - 1.5 million customers, $175 per home
Your Encryption Key a Fifth Amendment Right? - One Vermont federal Judge believes so.
Effort To Scuttle Telecom Immunity Push Fails - AT&T, Verizon: 1 Senator Chris Dodd:
Symmetrical FiOS Business Lines Available - $99 with two-year contract...
Xbox 360's Interfering With 2.4Ghz? - Strange signals....
Tuesday Morning Links -
Multi-Day Vonage Outage Doesn't Help Longevity - Number of users lose service enitire
RCN Users Report BitTorrent Troubles - More traffic shaping or a network glitch?
Sprint-Nextel Names Dan Hesse New CEO - Former Embarq, AT&T executive
Telecom Immunity Bill Vote Delayed - Will be reconsidered when Congress reconvenes...
Hughes Takes Control of Spaceway 3 - Boeing hands it over, pre-commercial testing beg
Can DirecTV Hit 100 HD Channels? - Time is running out...
FCC Votes To Cap Cable Growth - Also eases media ownership rules
FiOS Support Unsure Of Their Own Prices - Website errors make support a pain...
Wednesday Morning Links -
Executives Leaving Earthlink - Is the end nigh? A possible sale?
Don't Fear The Exaflood - Fear and loathing in the digital age...
Cell-phone Spending Surpasses Landlines - 250 million cell phones to 170 million land
RCN Resolves BitTorrent Issue - No new throttling policies have been implemented
Upcoming Federal IPv6 Deadline Doesn't Mean Much - Agencies doing bare minimum requir
Inching Toward DOCSIS 3.0 - Cablelabs certifies CMTS gear from three vendors
iProvo FTTH Losing Customers - City brings in consultant to find out why...
FCC Releases 700Mhz Auction Bidder List - Chevron?
Thursday Morning Links -
Bonding With Motorola - Pre-cert DOCSIS 3.0 gear in Korea
Broadband Long Term Contracts - Verizon, Comcast and Brighthouse head to battle
Mecca Gets Wi-Fi - Tropos mesh network created....
Will The Digital TV Transition Be a Mess? - Consumer education efforts continue....
Ditch Your Contract If Your Speed Stinks? - The difference between advertised and rea
Ditch Your Contract If Your Speed Stinks? - The difference between advertised and rea
Matt Drudge Launches Telecom Bomb At John McCain - Says presidential candidate pander
Comcast Double Play: $49.95 - With a few major caveats
Friday Morning Links -
FTC Approves DoubleClick Deal, Lets Industry Self-Regulate - Provides loose principle
DirecTV & Comcast Settle HD Suit - My capacity is bigger than yours
When FiOS Attacks! - Welcome to the bleeding edge
When Will Cable Embrace MPEG-4? - Motorola Exec says MPEG-2 will be dead by 2010
Nokia LTE Wireless Tests Surpass 100Mbps - First worldwide multi-user urban field tri
Vermont Regulators Deny FairPoint Deal - Entire New England Deal Could Be At Risk
More Comcast Users Seeing TiVO - $19.89 a month in New England...
What It Takes To Run Fiber In Rural America - Jaguar Communications fights a long and
Friday Open Thread -
Japan Takes Steps Towards WiMax - Competition in the country gets fierce
Vonage & AT&T Announce Their Legal Settlement - Without providing any details at all
FTC Approval of DoubleClick May Affect E.U. Decision - (Or it may not)
Brightcove Gets Boost from IAC - Nix the user uploads and go for the big guys
OnStar Users Cut Off By Analog Shutdown - Manufacturers express frustration about the
Benton Berates Bush on Broadband Goals - Who is saying that we've achieved universal
WI Governor Amends Then Approves Statewide Franchise Law - Cable franchises expected
Motorola WiMax Deployments on Track for ‘08 - Press release summarizes year end achie
Iowa Needs Infrastructure Upgrades to Benefit from Farm Bill - Rural broadband will o
Broadcom Takes Qualcomm To Court Again - Alleges that Qualcomm is sneaking around its
Fort Wayne Thanks Mayor for FiOS - A politician who understands technology
Monday Morning Links -
AT&T Switches From Tellabs To Ericsson - From FTTC to FTTN in the Southeast...
China Becomes Biggest Broadband Nation - 122 million subscribers....
Anti-Virus Protection Getting Worse? - Heuristics in particular seeing detection drop
Fiber Gear Gets Smaller, Cheaper - Advancements in last mile hardware...
A Very Merry Christmas For AT&T, Comcast CEOs - It's good to be the king...
Insight Customers Get Ready For Comcast Switch - 684,000 customers impacted
Tuesday Morning Links -
ISPs Being Pressured To Become Piracy Cops - IFPI proposes filters; website & protoco
In Flight Broadband To Be Filtered - But not by all airlines...
AT&T, Comcast Start Swinging - TV advertising takes aim....
Roadrunner Implements DNS Redirection - Upstate NY the test bed; more markets next ye
AT&T Fiber To The Home - Is U-Verse ready for prime time?
Sprint Inadvertently Lets Everyone Out Of Their Contract - Changes to fee structure c
$54,000 Cell Phone Bill - Misadventures in fine print
Thursday Morning Links -
In Favor Of Per-Byte Broadband Billing? - The Internet Will Collapse Unless 'X' Happe