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December 3, 2008

Wednesday, December 03, 2008 5:25 PM/EST

AT&T Launches Google Privacy Attack

Don't look for Google to be joining the Future of Privacy Forum any time soon. The FPF is yet another Washington coalition purporting to serve consumers' best interests, fancying itself as a champion of online privacy issues. "FPF will seek...

October 24, 2008

Friday, October 24, 2008 5:16 PM/EST

Sprint's Hesse: Say No to Network Neutrality

WASHINGTON -- Sprint CEO Dan Hesse told a National Press Club luncheon here Oct. 24 that a Barack Obama administration likely means network neutrality rules with "horrendous implications." In 2007, Obama promised that if he were elected he would appoint...

October 23, 2008

Thursday, October 23, 2008 4:37 PM/EST

Why Washington Ignored G1 Debut

There were no lines at Washington-area T-Mobile stores Oct. 22 for the launch of T-Mobile's G1 with Google smart phone. Interest and demand for the hot device was barely evident in your nation's capital. There are two reasons for that,...

June 24, 2008

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 1:28 PM/EST

FCC Nails Verizon

In one of the poorest kept secrets at the FCC in recent years, the agency officially sanctioned Verizon June 23 for attempting to keep customers from porting their telephone numbers to another carrier. According to the FCC order, Verizon used...

June 20, 2008

Friday, June 20, 2008 12:40 PM/EST

FCC to Slap Privacy Violation on Verizon?

Loose lips at the Federal Communications Commission are predicting that the agency will find Verizon guilty of violating consumer privacy as early as June 20 for actions affecting customers' ability to change providers. The decision would reverse an earlier staff...

June 9, 2008

Monday, June 09, 2008 4:05 PM/EST

Meanwhile in the Non-iPhone World

While waiting to be buried under the glut of anticipated iPhone 2.0 news today, only Samsung among Apple's handset competitors decided to go mano a mano by also introducing new consumer phones. As for RIM, Nokia, Motorola and T-Mobile, it...

June 6, 2008

Friday, June 06, 2008 3:12 PM/EST

CTIA Invokes the Great Satan

The cellular industry has reacted with great indignity over just the notion of the government selling off some spectrum to be dedicated for free wireless broadband service. The industry's mouthpiece - the CTIA - insists that if the FCC is...

June 5, 2008

Thursday, June 05, 2008 1:10 PM/EST

Verizon-Alltel Deal May Face Different Scrutiny

There's a major unknown factor in Verizon's proposed $28.1 billion acquisition of Alltel: antitrust regulations. If approved by the Washington regulators, the deal would give Verizon Wireless and AT&T control of 58 percent of the U.S. mobile market. That would...

June 3, 2008

Tuesday, June 03, 2008 1:15 PM/EST

Meter Running on All-You-Can-Eat

Time Warner Cable didn't have to do any thinking outside of the box to come up with a new pricing plan for the delivery of Internet services. Instead, TW simply found an old box from the 1990's and blew the...

May 29, 2008

Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:57 PM/EST

McCain Flip Flops on Telco Immunity

Let's slap a not so fast label on last week's report that John McCain is against granting immunity to telephone companies that participated in President Bush's warrantless wiretapping of American's telephone calls and e-mails. Chuck Fish, a former Time Warner...



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