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AT&T Sets DirecTV And U-Verse Price Hikes In 2020; Charter CEO: Streaming Isn't Driving Cordcutting; + more news of note -

Surprise! AT&T Sets DirecTV And U-Verse Price Hikes In 2020, Citing Higher Program Costs deadline.com
Charter CEO Tom Rutledge: Streaming isn t driving cordcutting, and lack of broadcast and sports, news could hinder OTT s impact multichannel.com
Magic Leap's Reported Stumbles Cast Shadow Over 5G lightreading.com
Top Sprint exec thought merger with T-Mobile US could lead to price increases across the wireless industry, contrary to public statements by the companies seattletimes.com
Charter 'Looking at All Angles' for Licensed Spectrum, CEO Says lightreading.com
Streaming and cordcutting are making a dent in the TV ads business bloomberg.com
Comcast CFO Michael Cavanagh says he expects NBC Universal s new streaming service, Peacock, should break even by its fifth year of operation multichannel.com
Verizon is shutting down Yahoo Groups this weekend and blocking users trying to archive its content slate.com
Swiss Fiber TV Service 'Salt' Launches Alternative Apple TV 4K Remote Control for Frustrated Customers macrumors.com
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Journalist Visits T-Mobile Store To Talk 5G, Response Was Cringe; T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Case Begins Today; + more news -

Journalist goes to T-Mobile to ask about 5G. The response was painful zdnet.com
T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Case Begins Monday; Major Issues On the Line webpronews.com
The Satellite Divide: Which Americans Rely on Satellite Internet? pcmag.com
An overview of 5G rollout plans in the US, technical limitations of millimeter-wave, mid-band, and low-band 5G frequencies, the state of 5G hardware, and more arstechnica.com
Mobile Speed Report by Spectrum Band: AT&T Tops 50 Mbps in WCS Band telecompetitor.com
Bernie Sanders unveils high-speed Internet for all plan - Says he will regulate rates, take on 'greedy cable, telecom monopolies' multichannel.com
Metro & Simple Mobile launch cheaper 5G Plans on T-Mobile's 5G network lightreading.com
FCC Ups Broadband Subsidy Usage Benchmark to 250 GB multichannel.com
SpaceX to test special Starlink satellite aimed at easing astronomers fears digitaltrends.com
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T-Mobile's Low-Band 5G 2x to 4x Faster Than 4G; Comcast, Charter Reach Relevance in U.S. Wireless; + more news of note -

T-Mobile s Low-Band 5G Two to Four Times Faster Than 4G webpronews.com
Comcast and Charter Have Reached Clear Relevance in U.S. Wireless, Analyst Says lightreading.com
With Over 100M Users, 4G/5G Fixed wireless access (FWA) Offers a New Direction for Mobile Operators lightreading.com
Comcast s pre-installed Wi-Fi gives residents near-instant access rcrwireless.com
C Spire Gigabit to Expand to Birmingham, Other Alabama Communities telecompetitor.com
VoIP provider Globex Telecom and its Canadian incarnation, 9506276 Canada, Inc. involved in credit card interest scheme, court grants FTC request to halt business, freeze assets multichannel.com
FCC won t punish Verizon and T-Mobile for exaggerating their coverage maps theverge.com
Apple says iPhone 11 Pro shares location data even when the feature is turned off due to ultra wideband tech, will provide a new toggle in an upcoming update techcrunch.com
New T-Mobile will urge Sprint customers to buy 5G phones - If the merger is approved, "legacy" customers will eventually have to give up their phones cnet.com
Stadia Store for browsing and buying games now available online 9to5google.com
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FCC Finds Verizon, T-Mobile, US Cellular 4G Maps Are Bogus; Frontier CEO Change May Signal Bankruptcy Plans; + more news -

FCC investigation finds Verizon, T-Mobile, and US Cellular exaggerated 4G coverage in official filings to the FCC; Ajit Pai has no plans to punish the carriers arstechnica.com
Does Frontier CEO Change Signal Bankruptcy Plans? telecompetitor.com
Google Fiber removes 100Mbps offer for new subscribers slashgear.com
A Sprint contractor left thousands of US cell phone bills on the internet by mistake techcrunch.com
The FCC Is Opening up Some Very Important Spectrum for Broadband eff.org
T-Mobile's Merger Prospects Look Grim Ahead of 'Trial of the Century' lightreading.com
Huawei legally challenges FCC's Universal Service Fund ban zdnet.com
Microsoft is planning a cheaper, disc-free Xbox, codenamed Lockhart, to go alongside its high-end Project Scarlett console kotaku.com
FCC Announces $9 Billion 5G Fund For Rural America webpronews.com
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AT&T says it was required by law to turn over call records featured in House impeachment report; + more news of note -

AT&T says it was required by law to turn over the call records featured in the House Intelligence impeachment report marketwatch.com
Verizon CEO Hopes There Is No 5G Cold War Between U.S. and China webpronews.com
USDA ReConnect Program Grants Almost $19M for Alaska Broadband telecompetitor.com
CFO: AT&T Optimistic That Video Losses Peaked Last Quarter telecompetitor.com
AT&T Adds Blimps to FirstNet Arsenal, Passes 1M Connection Mark lightreading.com
TiVo Plugs Amazon Prime Video Into Platform for Pay-TV Partners lightreading.com
BroadbandNow: China Dominates Fiber Build out as U.S. lags far behind in deployment multichannel.com
Comcast Launches Customer Service Program for the Deaf Community in American Sign Language businesswire.com
FBI Warns Hackers Can Spy On You Through Your Smart TV newsy.com
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T-Mobile Debuts 5G Across US 4 Days Early; Switching Wireless Carriers Might Soon Get A Lot Easier; + more news of note -

T-Mobile debuts 5G across the US in 600MHz spectrum, which travels further than mmWave but has lower max data speeds; Samsung, OnePlus debuting 5G phones Friday theverge.com
Switching Wireless Carriers Might Soon Get a Lot Easier lightreading.com
The One-Stoplight Town with Some of the Country s Fastest Internet newyorker.com
40% of US Pay-TV Biz Remains 'At Risk' - Analyst lightreading.com
AT&T senior VP notes dearth of ISP-bashing in D.C., says it is time for regulatory policy to look at all actors multichannel.com
Former FCC chair urges 'rapid closing' on T-mobile Sprint deal cnbc.com
Every 5G city and region for every major carrier in the US (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint) (Update: T-Mobile 600MHz nationwide) androidpolice.com
The US government wants to go even further with its Huawei sanctions mspoweruser.com
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Lowband 5G Offers the Massive Coverage We Need; Telcos Are Deploying RCS in Dangerously Unsecure Ways; + more news -

Lowband 5G Offers the Massive Coverage the US Needs lightreading.com
Researchers say multiple telcos are deploying RCS in ways that expose users to text and call interception, spoofed phone calls, and location data leaks androidpolice.com
Court filing: Intel says it has sold smartphone modem chip business to Apple at a multi-billion dollar loss , blames Qualcomm for forcing it out of the market businessinsider.com
YouTube TV vs Philo vs Hulu vs Sling TV vs FuboTV vs Watch TV vs AT&T TV NOW - Best replacement for PS Vue cordcuttersnews.com
Why the federal Liberals in Canada should reject Big Telecom s appeal of lower wholesale internet rates thestar.com
Huawei's phones and networking equipment are now "American-free" phonearena.com
Comcast revives 'E.T.' to hawk cable and internet service engadget.com
Unencrypted SMS database found online, exposing millions of US text messages betanews.com
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Hulu Is New Live TV Streaming King (& Raises Prices); Senate Dems Introduce Privacy Bill of Rights; + more news of note -

Hulu Is the New King of Live TV Streaming - and Now It's Raising Prices fool.com
Senate Dems Introduce Privacy Bill of Rights multichannel.com
Mobile access alone won t solve the digital divide - we re going to need fixed-line after all qz.com
IPv4 addresses in Europe are now all used up, IPv6 adoption still low slashgear.com
Verizon s 5G Experience Using Dynamic Spectrum Sharing May Not Differ Much from 4G LTE telecompetitor.com
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) schedules hearing on the implementation of his MOBILE NOW Act multichannel.com
AT&T and Microsoft announce early result of their 5G-cloud partnership cnn.com
The best VoIP services for 2019 digitaltrends.com
The Sketchy, Sketchy Case Of ICANN Execs And Self-Dealing Regarding The .Org Domain techdirt.com

** Happy Thanksgiving/Friendsgiving to whomever is celebrating! The Links will be back on Monday - provided I've recovered from my Thanksgiving food coma by then...
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Leak exposes social info, phone numbers, & more of 1.2B people; Ryan Reynolds now owns Mint Mobile; + more news of note -

Leak from a pair of so-called 'data enrichment' companies exposes social profile info, phone numbers, and more for 1.2 billion people androidpolice.com
Ryan Reynolds now owns MVNO Mint Mobile slashgear.com
5G Device Availability to Include More Spectrum Bands, Every Major Vendor in 2020 telecompetitor.com
More States OK with T-Mobile-Sprint as Nevada, Texas say they have settled with companies multichannel.com
Charter Looking to Follow Comcast s Residential-Router-as-Hotspot Model multichannel.com
The Washington Post And AT&T Team Up To Over-hype 5G techdirt.com
FCC issues NPRM to remove unbundling and resale requirements for copper, dark fiber infrastructure lightwaveonline.com
Surprise! Most 5G packages carry a 20% premium over their nearest 4G equivalent telecomtv.com
Canadian federal court to hear telco appeals on CRTC wholesale broadband rates bnnbloomberg.ca
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FCC Bans Huawei & ZTE from USF-Funded Networks, Cost to Replace Could be $2 Billion; + more notable news -

FCC Bans Huawei, ZTE from USF-Funded Networks; Cost to Replace Could be $2 Billion telecompetitor.com
China Joins Global Satellite Broadband Party lightreading.com
AT&T TV Pilot Launch Expanded to Four More Markets multichannel.com
UK Labour Party's plans for free broadband poses grave risks to privacy and internet freedoms computing.co.uk
AT&T Taps Low-Band Spectrum for Broader 5G Launch This Year, Rethinks 5G Pricing telecompetitor.com
AT&T, T-Mobile Force 5G Customers to Choose Between Lowband & Highband lightreading.com
T-Mobile hack may have affected around a million customers digitaltrends.com
How America can still win the race to 5G wireless technology washingtontimes.com
A smarter way to get TV and broadband pocket-lint.com
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T-Mobile Suffers Breach, Prepaid Subs Data Exposed; Apple's Online Store Quietly Kills User Reviews and Ratings; & More -

T-Mobile Suffers Breach, Sensitive Prepaid Data Exposed webpronews.com
Apple's Online Store Quietly Kills User Reviews and Ratings gizmodo.co.uk
Alphabet announces plant to bring its balloon powered internet service Loon to Peru dailymail.co.uk
AT&T, Verizon Begin Land Grabbing for Flashy 5G Partnerships lightreading.com
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr suggests FCC Dems lack 5G vision, ties that to vote against Sprint-T-Mobile deal multichannel.com
AT&T's next 5G network is going live in December, but don't expect big jumps in speed cnet.com
Judge rejects U.S. move to disqualify states' lawyer in T-Mobile/Sprint lawsuit reuters.com
Verizon s new 5G coverage maps show just how sparse the network is arstechnica.com
Stadia Issues Continue And It's The One Thing That Can't Happen If We're Going To Give Up Our Consoles techdirt.com
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House E&C approves pile of bipartisan broadband bills; Is the free Internet proposed in UK even possible?; + more news -

House Energy & Commerce Committee approves handful of bipartisan broadband and tech-related bills on a variety of topics, from broadband mapping and network security to freeing up spectrum multichannel.com
Free Internet Is Proposed in Britain. Is It Even Possible? nytimes.com
Disney Plus blames past hacks on user accounts being sold online dailymail.co.uk
Many rural Americans still lacking broadband access techrepublic.com
FCC Moves to Free Up 5.9 GHz Spectrum for Gigabit Wi-Fi telecompetitor.com
MVNO Altice Mobile Could Rack Up 1.7M Customers by 2021 lightreading.com
State Regulators Push Cell Providers to Improve Coverage During Disasters kqed.org
AT&T TV NOW is Rolling Out Ads When You Pause Your DVR Recordings cordcuttersnews.com
Steam now lets you invite iOS and Android devices to join PC multiplayer games remotely theverge.com
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