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Distraction, not partisanship, drives sharing of misinformation (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 03/18/2021 - 06:13AT&T whines about California net neutrality law as ISPs’ case appears doomed (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 03/17/2021 - 15:03AT&T promises fiber-to-the-home expansion in 90 metro areas in 2021
AT&T said it will bring fiber Internet to a few million more homes and businesses by the end of 2021. "In 2021, AT&T plans to increase its fiber footprint by an additional 3 million customer locations across more than 90 metro areas," AT&T said. This would raise AT&T's fiber deployment to about 18 million homes and businesses. AT&T provided a list of the 90 metro areas here.
Comcast scrambled to fix mistake that cut some users’ upload speeds by 20% (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 03/10/2021 - 17:28Comcast hides upload speeds deep inside its infuriating ordering system
While upload use on Comcast's network quickly grows—driven largely by videoconferencing among people working and learning at home—the nation's largest home-Internet provider with over 30 million customers advertises its speed tiers as if uploading doesn't exist. Comcast's 56 percent increase in upstream traffic made me wonder if the company will increase upload speeds any time soon, so I checked out the Xfinity website to see the current upload speeds.
Dish tries to disrupt SpaceX’s Starlink plans as companies fight at FCC
SpaceX and Dish Network are fighting at the Federal Communications Commission over Dish's attempt to block a key designation that SpaceX's Starlink division needs in order to get FCC broadband funding. Dish's "baseless attempt" to block funding "would serve only to delay what matters most—connecting unserved Americans," said SpaceX in a filing.
“We knew T-Mobile couldn’t be trusted,” union says after 5,000 job cuts (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 03/01/2021 - 16:36Net neutrality law to take effect in California after judge deals blow to telecom industry
California may soon begin enforcing its first-in-the-nation net neutrality law after a federal judge ruled against broadband providers that had sought to scuttle the state’s open-Internet safeguards.