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T-Mobile bolsters 5G ambitions in $3.5 billion supplier deal with Ericsson (C|Net)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 09/11/2018 - 12:07Judge Kavanaugh defends his net neutrality dissent in Senate hearing
During his second day of Senate confirmation hearings, Judge Brett Kavanaugh defended his dissent in a federal court decision that upheld the Federal Communications Commission's 2015 net neutrality rules. Pressed by Sen Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) why he disagreed with the rest of his colleagues on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit that the Federal Communications Commission was within its authority to create the rules, Judge Kavanaugh said he was simply following legal precedent and wasn't looking to strip the agency of its power.
At Facebook, where men outnumber women almost two to one, the future of news is female (C|Net)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 08/27/2018 - 06:32Google's pick to testify on election security rejected by Senate Intel Chair Richard Burr (R-NC) (C|Net)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 08/24/2018 - 11:56Twitter CEO Dorsey explains ignoring Infowars' rules violations (C|Net)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 08/19/2018 - 14:25Google Fiber's TV service beats Comcast, Spectrum in survey of cable providers
A survey from Consumer Reports finds that only 38 percent of those with paid TV subscriptions with cable or satellite providers said they were very or completely satisfied with their service. Consumer Reports said most of the larger cable companies ended up in the bottom half of the 25 companies on the ratings list. Google Fiber broke away from the pack on the TV front, though, receiving top marks in areas like technical support, customer service and equipment ease of use.
Is the Trump administration's re-killing of net neutrality a big deal?
The Federal Communications Commission has already repealed net neutrality, but the Trump administration can't leave it there. It also wants the Supreme Court to remove a ruling that upheld the controversial Obama-era rules. Is this a big deal? It depends on who you ask. While the request is somewhat unusual, not many cases upholding government regulation are followed by a repeal of that regulation, some legal experts say remanding the decision is just a bit of legal housecleaning. But net neutrality supporters disagree.
The FCC's net neutrality comments debacle: What you need to know
Network neutrality may be dead, but questions remain about how seriously the Federal Communications Commission considered comments from the public. "To put it simply, there is evidence in the FCC's files that fraud has occurred and the FCC is telling law enforcement and victims of identity theft that it is not going to help," FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel said in Dec. "Failure to investigate this corrupted record undermines our process for seeking public input in the digital age."
Why net neutrality supporters are cringing at the AT&T-Time Warner merger
Historians may look back on this week as a turning point in the evolution of the internet. First came the end of net neutrality rules which ensured that broadband and wireless providers couldn't act as gatekeepers picking and choosing who succeeds on the internet and who doesn't. Then a federal judge decided to allow AT&T, one of the largest broadband and wireless providers in the country, and Time Warner, a major media company, to merge without any conditions.