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Op-Ed: Your cell phone number is more important and less secure than your Twitter password (USAToday)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 07/27/2018 - 08:43Cord cutting accelerates with millions more expected to leave pay TV for Netflix, Hulu, Amazon (USAToday)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 07/24/2018 - 13:12AT&T adds Charlotte, Raleigh and Oklahoma City to mobile 5G service plan (USAToday)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 07/20/2018 - 17:08The AT&T-Time Warner deal was already making waves. Could Justice Dept. derail it? (USAToday)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 07/13/2018 - 16:33Secret money funds more than 40 percent of outside congressional ads
Secret donors financed more than four out of every 10 television ads that outside groups broadcast in 2018 to influence November’s high-stakes congressional elections. Leading the way: organizations affiliated with billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, whose conservative donor network plows hundreds of millions of dollars into politics and policy debates each election cycle.
Smarter devices, faster smartphones will follow from FCC 5G spectrum auctions
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai announced that the FCC will vote in its Aug 2 meeting to conduct a Nov 2018 auction of spectrum in the 28 gigahertz band, with a subsequent 24 GHz band auction soon afterwards. These so-called high-band spectrum swaths are necessary for wireless providers and other tech players because, even though they travel shorter distances than other spectrum, they can deliver more data and traffic more quickly.