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‘We’re Cut Off’: Rural Farmers Are Desperate For Broadband Internet
Millions of Americans live without reliable internet services. For farmers and food providers, this leaves them lagging behind competition and stuck with outdated equipment. Now, they’re looking to the Farm Bill for answers.
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Cable lobby and Ted Cruz are disappointed as FCC bans digital discrimination
FCC will investigate ISP practices that discriminate by income level or race.
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The FCC wants to know why data caps are still a thing in 2023
Consumer data consumption has increased exponentially in a little over a decade. According to broadband insight reports from OpenVault, monthly household data usage has skyrocketed from an average of 9 GB per month in 2010 to more than 587 GB per month in 2023. The increase marks an eye-watering 6,422% increase in the past 13 years.
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Do not call: States sue telecom company over billions of robocalls
Attorneys general across the U.S. have joined a lawsuit against a telecommunications company accused of making more than 7.5 billion robocalls to people on the national Do Not Call Registry
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AT&T, AST SpaceMobile Claim First Smartphone-to-Satellite Phone Call
The carrier and satellite-telecom startup announce a first in a rapidly moving market.
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Hayes Command Set History: The Tech That Dialed In a Million Modems
The obscure command set that gradually helped us move past acoustic couplers and brought dial-up modems into the mainstream. For a while, at least.
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Why are Canadians' cellphone bills higher than other countries?
The oft-quoted industry explanations for high wireless prices — costly operating margins and a sparse Canadian population, for example — are insufficient to explain lower prices found in other countries and even between some provinces. Experts say Canada needs to do something about competition before things get worse.
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FCC’s new broadband map greatly overstates actual coverage, senators say
Errors suggest ISPs are claiming to serve more homes than they actually do.
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411 is going out of service for millions of Americans | CNN Business
The operator is going off the hook for millions of customers.
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Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet's traffic per second
The speed record for data transmission using a single light source and optical chip has been shattered once again. Engineers have transmitted data at a blistering rate of 1.84 petabits per second (Pbit/s), almost twice the global internet traffic per second.
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SpaceX's Starlink launches internet service for planes to finally fix crappy in-flight WiFi
Speedier in-flight WiFi may finally be on the way. Starlink, the satellite-internet service from SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket company, announced a new service for airplanes on Wednesday. Starlink Aviation promises to bring impressive speeds, up to 350 megabytes-per-second, to the skies starting in 2023. It will cost $12,500-$25,000 per month on top of an initial hardware fee of $150,000.
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Check out details on Comcast free smartphone, internet plan
Check out details on Comcast free smartphone, internet plan offers #Comcast #Xfinity #ACP
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Elon Musk says SpaceX has withdrawn request for Pentagon to fund Starlink in Ukraine
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said Monday afternoon that the funding request the company had made to the Pentagon to start picking up the bill for satellite internet services for Ukraine has been withdrawn.
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Google Fiber touts 20Gbps download speed in test, promises eventual 100Gbps
Google Fiber is touting a test that delivered 20Gbps download speeds to a house in Kansas City, calling it a milestone on the path to offering 100Gbps symmetrical Internet. The company said it will also offer new multi-gigabit tiers in the near future.
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Satellite Internet Soon on Your Phone, Thanks to Android 14
A week ago, T-Mobile caught us all a little off guard when it announced that it was working with SpaceX and their Starlink satellite-powered internet to provide a wild new level of service to customers.
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Google Fiber expands for first time in five years, and is coming to five new states
The Google Fiber broadband service is one again expanding, announcing plans to bring the service to five states - Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Idaho - over the next several years. It's the first major expansion of Google Fiber since halting the network's rollout in nine cities in October 2016.
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Cable Finally Loses Broadband Marketshare in Q2 with First Negative Growth Quarter Ever
The top seven U.S. cable companies experienced a first from April - June -- they lost broadband customers in a quarter, 60,239 of them, according to Leichtman Research Group's quarterly tally of the U.S. wireline internet business.
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Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
Jared Mauch, the Michigan man who built a fiber-to-the-home Internet provider because he couldn't get good broadband service from AT&T or Comcast, is expanding with the help of $2.6 million in government money. When we wrote about Mauch in January 2021, he was providing service to about 30 rural homes including his own with his ISP, Washtenaw Fiber Properties LLC. Mauch now has about 70 customers and will extend his network...
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T-Mobile will pay $350 million to settle lawsuits over massive data breach
If you were a T-Mobile customer in August 2021, you may get a few dollars from the carrier in the near future. It has agreed to settle a consolidated class action lawsuit filed against the company over a data breach that exposed the personal information of 76.6 million "current, former and prospective customers."
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Elon Musk's SpaceX Gets FCC's Approval to Use Starlink Satellite Internet for Moving Vehicles
The US Federal Communications Commission on Thursday authorised Elon Musk's SpaceX to use its Starlink satellite internet network with moving vehicles, green-lighting the company's plan to expand broadband offerings to commercial airlines, shipping vessels and trucks.
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