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Antitrust 101: Why everyone is probing Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 11/05/2019 - 12:13DirecTV kept charging regional sports fee while channel was blacked out (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/04/2019 - 15:14ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says
Mozilla is urging Congress to reject the broadband industry's lobbying campaign against encrypted DNS in Firefox and Chrome. The Internet providers' fight against this privacy feature raises questions about how they use broadband customers' Web-browsing data, Mozilla wrote in a letter sent to the chairs and ranking members of three House of Representatives committees.
AT&T will slash $3 billion off its capital investments in 2020
AT&T is planning to spend just $20 billion on capital investment in 2020, down from $23 billion in 2019. The company is under pressure from investors to control spending, in part because its TV business is tanking and because of AT&T's giant debt load stemming from the purchases of DirecTV and Time Warner. AT&T increased capital investment between 2018 and 2019, but its 2020 outlook would push the company's spending to lower than its 2018