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The Washington Post: Net neutrality supporters ask court to reconsider ruling that upheld FCC repeal

The fight to reinstate net neutrality rules could return to federal court, if consumer groups and tech companies including Mozilla get their way. The maker of the Firefox Web browser joined other tech firms and public-interest advocates to fire their latest salvo Friday: They asked a panel of judges to…

Posted on December 13, 2019December 16, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Washington Examiner: New rash of privacy bills working its way through the Senate

The floodgates have opened for consumer privacy bills in Congress, with the latest legislation from four Democratic senators creating a broad set of new privacy rights. The Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act, or COPRA, introduced in late November, won praise from several privacy advocates. The bill gives U.S. consumers the right to…

Posted on December 5, 2019December 13, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Marketplace: 5G could change the world. 5G is also marketing hype.

The Federal Communications Commission announced this week a $9 billion subsidy program to bring 5G to rural parts of the country, coinciding with T-Mobile’s 5G nationwide rollout. T-Mobile is advertising its 5G as having “ultra wideband … with massive capacity … and ultrafast speeds,” which sounds incredible. Maybe too incredible. A T-Mobile…

Posted on December 5, 2019December 6, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Vice Motherboard: FCC Says Wireless Carriers Lie About Coverage 40% of the Time

A new FCC study confirms what most people already knew: when it comes to wireless coverage maps, your mobile carrier is often lying to you. If you head to any major wireless carrier website, you’ll be inundated with claims of coast to coast, uniform availability of wireless broadband. But, as…

Posted on December 5, 2019December 13, 2019 by Gigi Sohn

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Reuters: Huawei mounts legal challenge against FCC over rural carrier customers

The FCC last month voted unanimously to designate Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and peer ZTE Corp as national security risks, barring their U.S. rural carrier customers from tapping an $8.5 billion government fund to purchase Huawei or ZTE telecommunications equipment. Huawei filed a petition Thursday with the Fifth Circuit Court…

Posted on December 4, 2019December 6, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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National Journal: Gigi Sohn named to NJ50 list of 50 People Changing the Game in Washington.

Throughout her 30 years in telecommunications and technology policy, Gigi Sohn has worn many hats—a telecom lawyer, a progressive advocate, a top aide at the Federal Communications Commission, an academic. But if there’s one thread uniting the career of a woman widely viewed as the godmother of progressive tech policy…

Posted on December 2, 2019December 2, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Reuters: U.S. Justice Department closes antitrust probe over wireless carrier-switching technology

The Justice Department has closed an antitrust investigation into a trade group that includes Verizon and AT&T among its members and which had been criticized for making it harder for consumers to switch carriers. In a letter to the GSM Association, which sets standards on eSIM mobile technology and includes…

Posted on November 27, 2019December 2, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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CNN: Sprint may soon be a dead brand…one way or another

Sprint is a storied American brand, but it's one that could cease to exist if its $26 billion merger with T-Mobile is approved. If the long-awaited merger goes through, it would mean not only the end of Sprint's long corporate history, it would also mark the end of several bruising…

Posted on November 23, 2019December 2, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Medium: Killing Net Neutrality Was Even Worse Than You Think

When most people think about last year’s controversial repeal of net neutrality, they likely assume that the rules meant to protect an open internet were the only casualty. In the year since, the telecom sector and its defenders have tried to argue that because the internet didn’t immediately implode in a glorious fireball post-net neutrality,…

Posted on November 20, 2019November 20, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Vice Motherboard: T-Mobile’s John Leguere was Never a ‘Cool CEO’

T-Mobile’s trash-talking CEO John Legere will be stepping down in April, a decision industry watchers say could harm the company’s controversial $26 billion merger with Sprint. Under Legere’s leadership, T-Mobile branded itself as a consumer-friendly “uncarrier” alternative to the bigger, more traditional players. And initially, the company’s efforts had a…

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