After 40 Years, C-Span’s Founder Signs Off
Brian Lamb, the man who put Congress on live television, reflects on the results and explains why the Supreme Court ought to be next.
April 2019
Casey Newton: Blocking social networks after terrorist attacks can do more harm than good (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 06:39Myanmar’s Highest Court Upholds Conviction of Reuters Journalists (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 06:38Kara Swisher: Sri Lanka Shut Down Social Media. My First Thought Was ‘Good.’ (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 04/23/2019 - 06:38
Sprint and AT&T settle lawsuit over ‘blatantly misleading’ 5G E logo
AT&T and Sprint have settled a lawsuit over AT&T’s “5G Evolution” branding, which Sprint claimed was fooling customers into believing its 4G LTE network was a full-fledged 5G network. “We have amicably settled this matter,” an AT&T spokesperson said. Apparently, AT&T will keep using “5G E” in its marketing material. Earlier in 2019, AT&T started displaying a “5G E” logo on certain upgraded parts of its LTE network.
Facebook’s new chief lawyer helped write the Patriot Act (Vox)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 04/22/2019 - 18:20Millimeter-wave 5G will never scale beyond dense urban areas, T-Mobile says
While all four major nationwide carriers in the US have overhyped 5G to varying degrees, T-Mobile made a notable admission about 5G's key limitation.
Microsoft employees urge company to protect Chinese tech workers from state censorship (Hill, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 04/22/2019 - 16:31FCC Reveals Losing Bids, Bidders in TV Incentive Auction
All those TV station employees wondering whether they dodged a bullet in the 2017 broadcast incentive auction can now search for that information. The Federal Communications Commission has made that information public, plus more data on the reverse auction, after placing a two-year hold on publicizing which broadcasters got outbid. The information shows that there were 858 stations willing to give up spectrum, or a little under half of the 1,800 stations the FCC was interested in getting bids from.