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Telecom companies detail plan to charge Big Tech firms for access to Internet users (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Fri, 05/19/2023 - 06:59Starlink nixes plan to impose 1TB data cap and per-gigabyte overage fees
Starlink has abandoned plans to charge data overage fees to standard residential users who exceed 1TB of monthly usage. When SpaceX's Starlink division first announced the data cap in November 2022, it said that residential customers would get 1TB of "priority access data" each month.
Elon Musk expands feud with media by labeling NPR Twitter account “state-affiliated” (Ars Technica)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Wed, 04/05/2023 - 14:17Starlink explains why its FCC map listings are so different from reality
SpaceX has offered a public explanation for why Starlink's actual service availability falls far short of what it claimed on the Federal Communications Commission's national broadband map. SpaceX's FCC filings indicate it offers fixed broadband at virtually every address in the US even though the Starlink website's service map shows it has a waitlist in huge portions of the country. SpaceX removed some homes from the FCC database when residents filed challenges because they were unable to order Starlink at addresses listed as served on the FCC map. SpaceX tried to clear up the confusion in
Texas Republican wants ISPs to block a wide range of abortion websites (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 03/02/2023 - 06:31US says Google routinely destroyed evidence and lied about use of auto-delete (Ars Technica)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Fri, 02/24/2023 - 14:03Meta must pay $175M for patent-infringing livestreaming tech, judge says (Ars Technica)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Thu, 02/23/2023 - 17:38After defending false data, Comcast admits another FCC broadband map mistake
Comcast has fessed up to another mistake on the national broadband map after previously insisting that false data it gave the Federal Communications Commission was actually correct.