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Tuesday, May 21, 2019
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Why a T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Would Be Bad for The Public
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has now decided that a handful of promises, made just days ago by T-Mobile and Sprint, puts this $26 billion transaction in the public interest. But these promises are speculative, unsubstantiated, and entirely unenforceable.
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Senate Judiciary Committee GOP members split over antitrust remedies for big tech
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about data privacy and competition policy, GOP senators signaled they are divided over whether to pursue antitrust enforcement against the country's largest tech companies.
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Sens Capito, Hassan Introduce Rural Reasonable and Comparable Wireless Access Act
Sens Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) reintroduced the bipartisan Rural Reasonable and Comparable Wireless Access Act to help close the rural-urban digital divide and expand access to broadband in rural parts of West Virginia, New Hampshire, and across the country.
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When Summer Disasters Strike, First Responders Need Net Neutrality
The Save the Internet Act (H.R. 1644) would restore the net neutrality rules and the FCC’s legal authority to help our nation’s first responders when their internet provider fails to deliver the services they paid for.
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Cutting the Cord: NTIA Data Show Shift to Streaming Video as Consumers Drop Pay-TV
Americans increasingly are moving away from cable and satellite pay-TV services and opting to stream online video offerings, data from NTIA's latest Internet Use Survey show.
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How President Trump Is Outspending Every 2020 Democrat on Facebook
President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has spent far more than any single Democratic presidential candidate on Facebook advertising, reprising a strategy that was central to his 2016 victory.
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Annual Report Details FirstNet Progress on Public Safety’s Network
Fy 2018 was a landmark year for public safety, as the FirstNet network deployment began ahead of schedule following the decisions of all US states and territories and the District of Columbia to participate in the deployment of the nationwide public safety broadband network.
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T-Mobile Under Pressure to Sweeten Sprint Package for DOJ Nod
“It is tough to thread the needle of a condition that the government would see as solving the problem and T-Mobile wouldn’t see as too expensive,” said Blair Levin.
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San Jose announces plan to extend public Wi-Fi
San Jose and AT&T announce new project
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The Limitations of Poor Broadband Internet Access for Telemedicine Use in Rural America: An Observational Study
Until broadband access improves, telemedicine won't help rural communities
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Answering the Call for Rural Broadband
Time-tested programs should serve as a model for new initiatives.
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Communications Workers of America: AT&T outclassed Verizon in hurricane response, and it wasn’t close
CWA: Verizon used un-credentialed contractors to restore service in Florida.
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Sen Sanders, Kobuchar criticize FCC's green light on T-Mobile-Sprint merger
Sens Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) are criticizing FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's decision to greenlight the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint -- the latest sign that antitrust issues are core to many of their 2020 platforms.
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Fate of T-Mobile-Sprint deal rests with DoJ
Despite a host of concessions offered by the companies that won over FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, the fate of the deal hinges on the competition questions that reportedly continue to dog the deal at the DOJ.
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Thanks to Facebook, your cellphone company is watching you more closely than ever
A confidential Facebook document shows that the social network courts carriers, along with phone makers — some 100 different companies in 50 countries — by offering the use of even more surveillance data, pulled straight from your smartphone by Facebook itself.
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President Trump widens his attacks on media by going after information gatekeepers
President Donald Trump has a penchant for ganging up on the "mainstream media," but lately his attacks have spread to ganging up on any information gatekeeper — from Big Tech platforms to newscasters on his favorite network.
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NTIA Seeks OMB Clearance for Voluntary Collection of Broadband Availability Data
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days
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Addition of Huawei Technologies to the Entity List
Reprieve, which could ease US-China tensions, would ensure operations of existing networks