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Competition for Cable Customers Turns Nasty

The cable wars turn nasty as telcos fight for a beachhead

Apr 28, 08 9:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - The battle for a larger share of TV customers has taken a nasty turn as companies like Time Warner, DirecTV, and Verizon hone ad campaigns highlighting rivals' shortcomings, the Wall Street Journal reports. It's not the first time operators have taken shots at each other, but it signals a ramping-up... More »

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DirecTV • advertising • Verizon • marketing • Time Warner Cable • AT&T

Google Accused of 'Gaming'
FCC Auction

Lawmakers say firm made fake bids to trigger open access

Apr 16, 08 3:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Republican lawmakers are charging that Google manipulated an FCC bandwidth auction to get a free ride on the airwaves, PC World reports. The internet giant is accused of bidding purely to bump up the price to a level where rules trigger open access—and then walking away, leaving Verizon to... More »

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Google • FCC • Verizon • radio spectrum • telecommunications • spectrum auction • 700 Mhz

Congress Looks Into FBI's Telecom Spying

Pipeline for intercepted data raises red flags

Apr 8, 08 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Congressional Democrats are questioning the cozy relationship between the FBI and telecom companies, the Washington Post reports. Thanks to a 1994 law, all telecom firms have “Quantico circuits”—little-known electronic lines straight to the FBI technology office in Virginia. Telecom technicians can instantly send data over those lines,... More »

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FBI • Verizon • telecom industry • privacy • FISA • John Dingell • domestic wiretapping • Quantico circuits

AT&T, Verizon Plan New WiFi in Old TV Spectrum

Telecoms envision WiFi that can penetrate deep into buildings

Apr 6, 08 1:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Verizon and AT&T are talking big about recent bandwidth acquisitions at an FCC auction, the Washington Post reports. The companies promised fast, high-tech new networks in the next few years based on long-range frequencies, newly available from television broadcasters, that can penetrate deep into buildings. A Verizon spokesman... More »

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FCC • Verizon • spectrum auction • telecommunications companies • wireless technology • AT&T • AT&T Wireless

Whew! Google Saved by the Highest Bidder

Search giant OK with not winning FCC spectrum auction

Apr 4, 08 1:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Google nearly became the unenthused owner of a $4.71 billion slice of wireless airwaves in a recent Federal Communications Commission auction, the New York Times reports. Its bid was part of a deal with the FCC to open some spectrum to third-party services, but for much of the bidding,... More »

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Google • FCC • Verizon • cell phone industry • spectrum auction • wireless industry • AT&T Wireless

FCC Boss Nixes Bid to Open Up Wireless Networks

Systems already 'open enough,' he says

Apr 2, 08 6:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - The head of the FCC has rejected a request from Skype to open up wireless networks to outside devices, AP reports. The Internet phone provider wanted wireless operations included in a 1968 FCC decision that required AT&T to open up its network beyond its own devices that paved the... More »

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FCC • wireless • Verizon • Skype • telecommunications • Michael Copps • Kevin Martin • wireless industry • networks

TV Newbie Verizon to FCC: Help Cable Users Switch

Move highlights telecom turf war

Mar 27, 08 1:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - As Verizon rolls out its subscription-TV service, the company has asked the FCC to make the switch from cable easier for consumers, the Washington Post reports. In its petition, Verizon asked for the authority to shut off its customers’ cable services on their behalf, arguing that the switchover process is... More »

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television • FCC • Verizon • telecommunications • wireless service • cable operators • cable industry • FiOS

AT&T, Verizon Will Dominate New Airwaves

Wireless spectrum auction saw no major first-time entrant

Mar 21, 08 1:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - AT&T and Verizon were the two top bidders in the airwaves auction that ended this week, representing 80% of the FCC’s record $19.6 billion haul and positioning themselves to offer advanced wireless Internet services, reports the Wall Street Journal. Google, sans licenses, was another winner,... More »

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Google • FCC • Verizon • cell phone industry • spectrum auction • wireless industry • mobile Internet • AT&T

Verizon Opens Its Network to Outside Phones

Provider answers
calls for more open industry

Mar 20, 08 10:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Verizon will open its cell-phone service to any phone builder willing to meet its technical specs, the Wall Street Journal reports. The provider has so far restricted access to its own retailer, but hopes to stave off pressure from regulators, consumers, and tech companies pushing for a more universal industry. More »

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cell phones • Verizon • airwaves • cell phone industry • wireless industry

In Surprise Turn, Verizon Embraces File Sharing

'The problem is not peer-to-peer technology, the problem is how you deploy it.'

Mar 14, 08 5:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Verizon announced today that it plans to use peer-to-peer software to speed the deployment of legitimate content over its networks, in a break from the industry’s usually negative stance towards file sharing, the AP reports. Working with a P2P company named Pando Networks, Verizon found that when an ISP... More »

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NBC • Verizon • file sharing • p2p • Internet service providers • television watching • copyright infringement • NBC Direct

Coming Soon
to Your
Cell: Spam

Users pay for unwanted text messages; 'smishers' fish for info

Mar 10, 08 2:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - To the dismay of customers and cellphone providers, spammers and even phishers have gone mobile. Researchers predict US consumers will get a record 1.5 billion spam text messages this year, while “smishing” texts try to con recipients into giving up sensitive financial information, reports the Washington Post.... More »

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fraud • cell phones • Verizon • spam • phishing • texting • mobile advertising • smishing

Liberty Looks to Leverage DirecTV Deal

In for a tough battle with better positioned telcos, cable companies

Feb 28, 08 9:26 AM CST
(Newser) - Closing Liberty Media’s $12 billion deal for a 41% share of DirecTV took more than a year, but positioning the satellite-TV service to rival telcos and cable companies offering triple-play packages of TV, phone, and broadband could be a bigger test, reports the Wall Street Journal today. The deal... More »

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DirecTV • cable TV • Verizon • telecom industry • satellite TV • Liberty Media • News Corp • telcos

T-Mobile Launching
Net Phone Price War

New plan follows hard on news of wireless price war

Feb 21, 08 3:00 PM CST
(Newser) - T-Mobile is giving an extra push to the millions contemplating ditching their landlines. The low-cost wireless carrier is launching a new dirt-cheap VoIP service, which lets T-Mobile customers hook up traditional phones to an Internet router and make unlimited local and long distance calls for $10 a month, the More »

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Vonage • Verizon • VoIP • telecom industry • telecommunications • Internet phone • AT&T • T-Mobile

Sprint May
Go Lower
Than $99.99

Mobile provider expected to undercut flat-rate calling plans

Feb 20, 08 10:42 PM CST
(Newser) - With both AT&T and Verizon unveiling $99.99 flat-rate unlimited calling plans this week, Sprint's is expected to undercut its rivals by up to 40%, plunging the wireless industry headlong into a price war. Sprint isn't telling yet, but analysts predict it will offer unlimited calling for roughly $60... More »

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Verizon • price war • Sprint Nextel • wireless industry • AT&T • unlimited calling plans

Cell Carriers Roll Out Unlimited Calls for $100/Month

Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile get with the program

Feb 20, 08 11:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Cell phone users tired of rationing their minutes have a new alternative—unlimited calling plans for $99.99 a month. Verizon Wireless yesterday introduced a nationwide plan with no domestic roaming or long-distance fees, AP reports. AT&T quickly announced a matching plan, and T-Mobile execs say they’ll unveil... More »

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cell phones • Verizon • cell phone industry • Sprint • texting • AT&T • T-Mobile • cell phone plans • unlimited calling plans

Web Connects Mourning NIU Students

With cellphones down, many use Facebook
to communicate

Feb 15, 08 1:21 PM CST
(Newser) - With cellphone lines on much of the campus jammed, Northern Illinois University students turned to the Internet to let friends and loved ones know they had survived yesterday’s shooting and to console each other, the Chicago Tribune reports. Most logged on to Facebook, where 10,000 joined a prayer... More »

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social networking • cell phones • Verizon • Facebook • school shooting • Northern Illinois University

Company Yanks Online Cell Directory

90 million numbers taken offline after consumers freaked out

Feb 2, 08 5:47 AM CST
(Newser) - Data company Intelius scoured business records and other sources and managed to compile around half the cellphone numbers in America, MSNBC reports. When it put those 90 million numbers online, available to anybody paying a $15 fee, people were outraged. Consumers were shocked to find their private cellphone numbers were... More »

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cell phones • Verizon • privacy • data mining • cell phone data services • Intelius

Sea Cable Damage Cuts Internet Service to Mideast

Egypt goes offline; India hit with severe delays

Jan 31, 08 6:59 AM CST
(Newser) - Damage to two underwater cables has huge swaths of the Mideast and South Asia offline and repair ships scrambling to restore internet service to millions. One of the cables has been completely severed, the Financial Times reports. Some 70% of Egypt's service was disrupted, including all of Cairo, and bandwidth... More »

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India • Verizon • Internet service providers • Mideast

Verizon Q4 Profits Ride Wireless Gains

Cell phones, Internet continue to shine as landlines decline

Jan 29, 08 1:38 PM CST
(Newser) - Verizon Communications, riding a wave of wireless and Internet growth, yesterday announced net income rose to $1.07 billion for the fourth quarter, up nearly 4% from $1.03 billion a year ago, reports the New York Times. Verizon Wireless, second to AT&T in the US, added some 2... More »

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cell phones • Verizon • corporate earnings • telecommunications • Internet service providers

Bids Top $2.8B for Wireless Spectrum

FCC's airwave auction
opens with
$1.24B offer

Jan 25, 08 6:31 AM CST
(Newser) - The Federal Communication Commission’s much-anticipated auction of five “blocks” of airwaves kicked off yesterday with first-round bids of nearly $2.8 billion, including a $1.24 billion offer for the “C” block, considered the most valuable commercially, reports Reuters. Bidders could use the 700-MHz spectrum to offer... More »

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Google • Verizon • WiFi • spectrum auction

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