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Charter’s donations to charities and lawmakers may help it impose data caps
Nonprofits and local politicians are lining up to support a Charter Communications petition that would let the ISP impose data caps on broadband users and seek interconnection payments from large online-video providers. Charter filed the petition with the Federal Communications Commission in June, asking the FCC to eliminate merger conditions applied to its 2016 purchase of Time Warner Cable two years early.
Google reportedly peeks into Android data to gain edge over third-party apps (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 15:44AT&T’s losses mount
AT&T lost broadband customers in the second quarter of 2020, dropping from 14.05 million to 13.94 million. Fiber customers rose from 4.1 million to 4.32 million during the three-month period, but losses in the DSL category brought the total number of customers down.
AT&T claims a phone made in 2019 will stop working, urges users to upgrade (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 07/22/2020 - 14:12FCC Chairman Pai urges states to cap prison phone rates after he helped kill FCC caps (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 15:55Charter’s hidden “Broadcast TV” fee now adds $197 a year to cable bills (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 07/10/2020 - 15:30Maine judge rejects broadband industry’s preemption and First Amendment challenges to broadband privacy law
The broadband industry has lost a key initial ruling in its bid to kill a privacy law imposed by the state of Maine. The top lobby groups representing cable companies, mobile carriers, and telecoms —ACA, CTIA, NCTA, and USTelecom — sued Maine in Feb, claiming the privacy law violates their First Amendment protections on free speech and that the state law is preempted by deregulatory actions taken by Congress and the Federal Communications Commission.