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Why your cable company might be happy to see you stop subscribing to its TV service: Data Caps.
If your cable operator invites you to dump its TV service and switch to online streaming, its internet rates may hide a surprise that will be painful to you and profitable to your internet provider. Data caps limiting how much you can download per month are an unpleasant reality at too many providers, but small cable services can be significantly less generous with them. Those same companies also have the hardest time keeping programming costs in check and increasingly lose money on video.
AT&T expands mobile 5G rollout with seven new cities, total rises to 19 (USAToday)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 04/09/2019 - 12:32Cyberattack diverts almost $500,000 out of city of Tallahassee payroll account (USAToday)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Sun, 04/07/2019 - 18:13Facebook shuts down thousands of fake pages in its latest crackdown (USAToday)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 18:07T-Mobile promises to support low-income Lifeline program 'indefinitely' if merger approved
In its continued effort to gain approval for its merger with Sprint, T-Mobile has pledged to keep supporting Sprint's low-income Assurance Wireless brand "indefinitely." Assurance along with Sprint's other prepaid brands, Boost Mobile and Virgin Wireless, and T-Mobile's Metro are popular with lower-income and cost-conscious Americans for their cheaper alternatives to traditional plans than the main four wireless networks. "The digital divide is real and we want to help eliminate it," T-Mobile president Mike Sievert said.
Video: Why 5G isn’t quite what you think (USAToday)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 01/14/2019 - 17:07Have a great idea for 5G? Verizon may give you a million dollars to make it happen (USAToday)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 01/11/2019 - 12:35Facebook: Fake Instagram accounts used President Trump, Kanye West and social issues to target voters (USAToday)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 11/14/2018 - 11:56Who paid for that political ad in your Facebook feed? It's not always easy to figure out
Who was trying to influence your vote in the midterm elections? On Facebook, it was not always easy to find out. Political advertisers are required to fill in a field that says who paid for the message in your news feed, but that does not necessarily tell you who they or their backers are. Entities can write whatever they want in that field as long as it's not deceptive or misleading. A growing number of Facebook ads in the run-up to the election took advantage of that loophole to obscure or conceal the identity and political motives of who paid for them – and Facebook did not catch it.