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Chairman Pai touted false broadband data despite clear signs it wasn’t accurate
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai touted inaccurate broadband-availability data in order to claim that his deregulatory agenda sped up deployment despite clear warning signs that the FCC was relying on false information.
Qualcomm is bringing 5G to everyone with cheap 5G Snapdragon chips (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 09/03/2020 - 13:05SpaceX launches 12th Starlink mission, says users getting 100Mbps downloads (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 09/03/2020 - 10:45Trump administration forces Facebook and Google to drop Hong Kong cable (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 08/31/2020 - 17:17Bridgefy, the messenger promoted for mass protests, is a privacy disaster (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 08/24/2020 - 14:29What the advent of 5G—mmWave and otherwise—will mean for online gaming (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 08/24/2020 - 09:20AT&T, T-Mobile fight FCC plan to test whether they lie about cell coverage
AT&T and T-Mobile are fighting a Federal Communications Commission plan to require drive tests that would verify whether the mobile carriers' coverage claims are accurate. The carriers' objections came in response to the FCC seeking comment on a plan to improve the nation's inadequate broadband maps.
Want Verizon or AT&T 5G? You’ll have to buy an expensive unlimited plan
Verizon is adding some perks to its wireless plans, but some things aren't changing: Verizon still restricts 5G service to its most expensive unlimited-data plans. If you want to save money by getting a limited-data plan, you'll have to make do with 4G only—which, admittedly, is not a big problem for most people given how sparse Verizon's 5G network is. AT&T still enforces a similar restriction, including 5G only in its unlimited-data plans while selling limited-data plans without 5G.
Charter can charge online video sites for network connections, court rules
Charter can charge Netflix and other online video streaming services for network interconnection despite a merger condition prohibiting the practice, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled. the decision overturns two merger conditions that the Obama administration imposed on Charter when it bought Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks in 2016.