Collaborate Disseminate
Carriers insist location data scams are rare and they do their best to police them. Government investigators may want to confirm that claim. Continue reading In Letters To Senate, Wireless Carriers Downplay Their Latest Location Data Scandal
Regulators aren’t sold on the companies’ claims that fewer competitors means more competition and lower prices. Continue reading The Unpopular Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Looks Increasingly Doomed
Lily Hay Newman, writing at Wired, brings us the bad-news of robo-calling mitigation efforts in the United States (also published on Wired’s sister site – Ars Technica – both Conde Nast properties). As usual, the incompetence of the telecom’s particip… Continue reading Robocalling, A Litany Of Telecom and Government Incompetence
Andrea Peterson, writing for Ars Technica and the Project on Government Oversight, tells the tale of FCC malfeasance coming to the fore – in not mandating requisite technical remediation of SS7 shortcomings. Today’s Must Read.
‘A panel advising Presi… Continue reading FCC Fails To Mandate Signaling System 7 Remediation Effort: Nothing To See Here, Move Along
5G will provide faster speeds to urban users, but cost and widespread availability could remain stumbling blocks for many years to come. Continue reading 5G May Never Live up to the Hype
Cell phone providers have actively lobbied against right to repair legislation, but Ting Mobile announced that it supports consumers’ right to fix the things they own. Continue reading A Cell Phone Carrier Breaks With Big Telecom, Announces Support for Right to Repair Legislation
Last minute attempts to weaken the proposal failed as bill now moves toward a showdown in the House and Senate. Continue reading Bill That Would Restore Net Neutrality Moves Forward Despite Telecom’s Best Efforts to Kill it
AT&T insisted that post-merger “efficiencies” would likely result in lower, not higher rates. Continue reading AT&T Jacks Up TV Prices Again After Merger, Despite Promising That Wouldn’t Happen
Senator Elizabeth Warren proposed breaking up tech giants Facebook, Google, and Amazon on Friday—but big telecom is in dire need of the same treatment. Continue reading If We’re Going to Break Up Big Tech, We Shouldn’t Forget Big Telecom
Before there was the Internet, there were a lot of would-be Internets. Compuserve comes to mind, as do Prodigy, GEnie, Delphi, and the innumerable BBS systems that were once gateways to worlds beyond our CRT monitors and 300 baud Hayes Supermodems.
Service providers varied by region, of course. The French …read more
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