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The latest barrier to 5G speeds? The summer. Persistent overheating issues plague 5G hardware (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 07/12/2019 - 13:35AT&T’s robocall-blocking expansion won’t block spam calls unless you pay extra (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 07/10/2019 - 17:20“This is crazy”: FCC kills part of San Francisco’s broadband-competition law
The Federal Communications Commission voted to preempt part of a San Francisco ordinance that promotes broadband competition in apartment buildings and other multi-tenant structures. The FCC's decision "stop[s] efforts in California designed to encourage competition in multi-tenant environments," said FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel. "Specifically, we say to the city of San Francisco—where more than half of the population rents their housing, often in multi-tenant units—that they cannot encourage broadband competition.
AT&T takes some Time Warner shows off Netflix, makes them exclusive to HBO Max (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 07/09/2019 - 17:55T-Mobile says it can’t be sued by users for selling phone-location data because of forced-arbitration clause (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 07/09/2019 - 13:57Amazon plans nationwide broadband—with both home and mobile service
Amazon is seeking government permission to launch 3,236 broadband satellites that would cover nearly all of the US and much of the rest of the world.
Retail Industry Leaders Association all but beg FTC to take action against Google, Amazon (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 14:04ICANN eliminates .org domain price caps despite lopsided opposition
Earlier in 2019, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) sought public comment on a new contract for the Public Interest Registry, the non-profit organization that administers the .org top-level domain. The results were stark; more than 3,200 individuals and organizations submitted comments to ICANN, and most of them focused on a proposal to remove a cap on the price customers could be charged for .org domains. The existing contract, signed in 2013, banned the Public Interest Registry from charging more than $8.25 per domain.