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Comcast Pays $1.14M In Settlement With Minnesota; Netflix Places $17Billion Bet On The Streaming Wars; + more news -

Comcast to Pay Out $1.14M in Settlement With Minnesota AG lightreading.com
Netflix Places a $17 Billion Bet on the Streaming Wars observer.com
Here s how just four satellites could provide worldwide internet technologyreview.com
Google says that 120 Stadia titles are coming in 2020, including 10 exclusives, and outlines new features coming soon 9to5google.com
Bad Ideas: Raising The Arbitrarily Age Of Internet Service 'Consent' To 16 techdirt.com
Sprint Goes to 100% Renewable Energy in Virginia telecompetitor.com
Is Apple/Samsung duopoly poised to continue with 5G? fiercewireless.com
Microsoft and T-Mobile hope to tackle broadband gap with free 4G plans for US schools techradar.com
Verizon's 4G Network to Connect New Audi Cars lightreading.com
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Rogers Activates Canada's First 5G Network; FCC Subsidized Low Income Phones Are Chinese Malware Shitshow; + more news -

Rogers officially activates Canada's first 5G network, but customers will have to wait to use it calgaryherald.com
Some FCC Subsidized Low Income Phones Are A Chinese Malware Shitshow techdirt.com
5G isn t going to save you from cable broadband anytime soon thenextweb.com
US Pay-TV Losses to Improve Slightly in 2020, Remain Ugly lightreading.com
Verizon, Vodafone, Others Team Up for 'Interoperable' 5G Specs lightreading.com
Pai Praised for Schools, Libraries Broadband Efforts multichannel.com
Boris Johnson signals he will ignore US demands and give Huawei access to UK 5G network washingtonexaminer.com
AT&T TV NOW Adds Three Streams and 500 Hours of DVR Storage to Max and Plus Packages thestreamable.com
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Senators Propose $1Billion To Fund Huawei Alternatives; Judge Hears Closing Arguments In T-Mo/Sprint Merger; + more news -

Senators Propose Over $1 Billion To Fund Huawei Alternatives webpronews.com
U.S. judge hears closing arguments in T-Mobile/Sprint merger trial reuters.com
Verizon promises that it won t track you with OneSearch, its new privacy-focused search engine theverge.com
TiVo Seeks 'Win' in the Streaming Wars With New OTT Device lightreading.com
FCC Sets Comment Dates on VoIP Truth In Billing - Seeks input on whether to extend requirement to IP-based phone service multichannel.com
FCC ID's State-by-State Rural Broadband Fund Breakdown multichannel.com
Disney+ was downloaded 30M+ times in the US in Q4 2019, besting TikTok; Disney+ now has 41M+ installs and generated ~$97M in revenue to date techcrunch.com
Microsoft pushes a fix for a critical flaw in a cryptographic component present in all versions of Windows; NSA says it alerted Microsoft to the bug krebsonsecurity.com
SpaceX s brisk Starlink launch cadence to continue next week spaceflightnow.com
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US Carriers Don't Protect Customers From SIM-Swap Attacks; States Say Don't Trust Gov't In Sprint/TM Merger; + more news -

US carriers do little to protect customers from SIM-swap attacks techspot.com
Don t trust the US gov t, states tell court in T-Mobile/Sprint merger case arstechnica.com
Charter Goes Out-of-Footprint With New Internet Service for Large Businesses lightreading.com
US tells UK that using Huawei to build a 5G network would be madness siliconangle.com
T-Mobile, Sprint Say DOJ s Merger View Deserves Proper Weight bnnbloomberg.ca
AT&T CFO: Owner s economics an advantage at intersection of 5G, content rcrwireless.com
Verizon's discontinuation of home bundles builds on its strategy of embracing changing consumer habits businessinsider.com
Public TV Stations Push FCC to Mandate AT&T FirstNet Datacasting Interoperability broadcastingcable.com
Cut undersea cable plunges Yemen into major Internet outage as fragility of global internet infrastructure has left the entire Red Sea region struggling to connect wired.com
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Spectrum Will Make Its Home Security Gear Useless In Early Feb; Verizon Delays 5G Home Rollout (Again); + more news -

Spectrum will make its home security gear useless in early February slashgear.com
Verizon Delays 5G Home Rollout While It Waits For More Powerful Equipment webpronews.com
NY Governor Prioritizes '100% Cell Service' lightreading.com
Hundreds of millions of Broadcom-based cable modems at serious risk of remote hijacking theregister.co.uk
Latest Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) proposal calls for new speed tiers, latency requirements telecompetitor.com
Atlantic Broadband Acquisitions Continue with Plans to Buy Connecticut-Based Thames Valley Communications telecompetitor.com
Take your tinfoil hats off - Apple, Samsung phones pass FCC's radiation tests lightreading.com
Sprint Sold Phone With Chinese Malware, Cybersecurity Firm Claims lightreading.com
TiVo Says Apps for Roku and Apple TV Remain In Limbo multichannel.com
Apple Replacing Defective Smart Battery Cases webpronews.com
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Verizon Kills TV & Internet Bundles For Mix & Match; Sprint's Sacrifice Of Virgin Mobile USA Is Worrying Shame; + more -

Verizon kills bundles for TV and internet service, introduces Mix & Match pricing bloomberg.com
Sprint s sacrifice of Virgin Mobile USA is a worrying shame androidauthority.com
Largest ReConnect Award to Date Will Fund Rural Broadband Expansion in Virginia telecompetitor.com
Verizon enjoys a commanding lead when it comes to which 5G network Americans think is best lightreading.com
Comcast to Integrate CBS All Access into X1 and Flex multichannel.com
States urge court to disregard DOJ backing of T-Mobile-Sprint merger cnet.com
Verizon, T-Mobile trade barbs over network prowess fiercewireless.com
AT&T Reveals Low-Band 5G Secrets, Explains Why 4G Can Be Faster Than 5G pcmag.com
Mozilla patches zero-day exploit for Firefox desktop and Android browsers androidpolice.com
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FCC's Pai Says 5G Can Help Close Rural Divide; Verizon: Don't Expect Much From '5G Home' Until 2H 2020; + more news -

FCC s Pai Says 5G Can Help Close Rural Divide multichannel.com
Verizon: Don't Expect Much From '5G Home' Until 2H 2020 lightreading.com
NYC broadband plan calls for fiber everywhere, with ISPs sharing network arstechnica.com
FCC to Vote on Final Rules for $20.4B Rural Broadband Fund multichannel.com
Minnesotans could see refunds under state's $9 million settlement with CenturyLink inforum.com
Virgin Mobile customers will be moved to Boost Mobile, in anticipation of T-Mobile/Sprint merger androidpolice.com
T-Mobile is considering all its options for a no-merger scenario phonearena.com
Comcast to Stream CBS All Access on X1 & Flex Boxes lightreading.com
Google's Project Zero is trialing a new policy under which all vulnerabilities will be publicly disclosed after 90 days, irrespective of when the bug is fixed 9to5google.com
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Sprint Kills Virgin Mobile Brand; Elon Musk: 'UFO On Stick' Will Connect Subs To SpaceX StarLink Internet; + more news -

Sprint Kills Virgin Mobile Brand, Will Move Customers to Boost Next Month lightreading.com
Elon Musk says a device resembling a 'UFO on a stick' will connect people to SpaceX's new Starlink satellite internet service businessinsider.com
NYC internet plan aims to provide all New Yorkers with broadband access cnet.com
US finally prohibits ISPs from charging for routers they don t provide arstechnica.com
T-Mobile Ends 2019 on a High With 7M Net Adds for the Year lightreading.com
T-Mobile Probably a Clear Winner No Matter the Sprint Decision bnnbloomberg.ca
This is the first truly affordable 5G smartphone for the US market phonearena.com
Parks Finds Over Half of Broadband Homes Now Own a Smart TV telecompetitor.com
TiVo unveils its (tiny) new video streaming device at CES axios.com
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Comcast Pitches Free Cybersecurity To 18M Broadband Subs; Could Apple Sidestep 5G With Satellites?; + more news -

Comcast Pitches Free Cybersecurity to 18M Broadband Subs lightreading.com
Could Apple Sidestep 5G With Satellites? lightreading.com
AT&T et al. fight against higher upload speeds in $20-billion FCC program arstechnica.com
Comcast Launches Its Most Powerful Internet Device Capable of Multi-Gigabit Speeds With WiFi 6 businesswire.com
CableLabs' Sorond: Actual 10G Is Right Around the Corner multichannel.com
Cord-Cutting to Ease in 2020 multichannel.com
Roku launches the Roku TV Ready program, which will let third parties release products that are easy to set up and allow users to control them with one remote techcrunch.com
Amazon expands Fire TV Edition to soundbars, car infotainment systems, set-top boxes, and more, and says Fire TV platform now has over 40M MAUs venturebeat.com
SpaceX launches third batch of Starlink satellites dailymail.co.uk
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Judge Expected To Rule Against Sprint/T-Mobile Merger; Comcast In Exclusive Talks To Acquire Xumo; + more news -

Judge Expected to Rule in Favor of State Attorneys General Against Sprint T-Mobile Merger telecompetitor.com
Comcast in Exclusive Talks to Acquire Xumo lightreading.com
SpaceX test-fires rocket ahead of record-setting Starlink launch spaceflightnow.com
FCC Ready to Authorize CAF II Rural Broadband Funding for Hughes, Wisper ISP, Three Others telecompetitor.com
Can Telcos Be Major IoT Service Providers? lightreading.com
Cox Media Stations Return to Fios Customers multichannel.com
AT&T & Hearst Agree to Bring Locals Back to DIRECTV & AT&T TV NOW cordcuttersnews.com
ZDNet.com journalist flies 3,000 miles to try T-Mobile's 5G. It didn't go well zdnet.com
What to expect at CES 2020: 5G phones, 4K HDR TVs and HDMI 2.1, dual-screen laptops, gaming CPUs, smart home devices, game consoles, and more theverge.com
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Congress Passes Bill To Fight Surprise Cable Fees, AT&T Outsourcing Jobs After $3B Tax Cut, Worker Bonuses; + more -

Congress Passes Bill to Fight Surprise Cable TV Fees consumerreports.org
AT&T touted worker bonuses after $3 billion Trump tax cut - now it s outsourcing thousands of jobs rawstory.com
Why Do Data Caps Exist and How Can You Bypass Them? makeuseof.com
2019: The Year US Carriers Waged a 5G Advertising War lightreading.com
StarHub, U Mobile to run 5G roaming tests zdnet.com
2020 Preview: A new chapter in wireless competition fiercewireless.com
Employee error to blame for massive data leak, Wyze says arstechnica.com
DOJ Antitrust Boss Delrahim Ignored Hard Data As He Rubber Stamped T-Mobile Merger techdirt.com
Verizon Looking At 5G Drones For Growth webpronews.com
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Court Blocks Maine A La Carte Law; Forget 5G, It's 4G That Hasn't Even Peaked Yet; + more news of note -

Court Blocks Maine A La Carte Law - Said Comcast likely to win on argument it is unconstitutional speech restriction multichannel.com
Forget 5G, It's 4G That Hasn't Even Peaked Yet lightreading.com
Best internet providers in 2020: How to choose cable vs. DSL vs. satellite and more - Speed, price and the pros and cons of every type of internet service from dial-up to fiber to 5G cnet.com
5G Home internet doesn't deliver game-changing speeds - but it's a start techradar.com
Half of U.S. Homes Now Stream Video Daily multichannel.com
AT&T nearly doubles its consumer 5G coverage; is your city on the list? phonearena.com
Netflix Shakes Up Hollywood as Disney, AT&T Fight Back newsmax.com
IoT device vendor Wyze says a server leak exposed data, including email addresses, camera user IDs, and WiFi SSIDs, of ~2.4M customers from Dec. 4 to Dec. 26 zdnet.com
Best live TV streaming services for cord-cutters in 2020 cnet.com
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