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Analysts: Cable Gained the Lion's Share of 1Q Wireless Subscriber Gains; + more notable news -

Analysts: Cable Gained the Lion s Share of 1Q Wireless Subscriber Gains telecompetitor.com
Broadcom announces plans to acquire VMware for around $61B in cash and stock, paying $142.50 per share, and will assume VMware's $8B in net debt reuters.com
Brightspeed Aims to Serve 1M Fiber Locations by the End 2023 telecompetitor.com
Gigabit competition among drivers impacting broadband sub growth at Charter lightreading.com
Data.ai and IDC: consumer spending on video games will hit $222B globally in 2022, with mobile gaming accounting for more than 61% of the total gamesindustry.biz
Twitter agrees to pay $150M to the FTC, settling allegations that it misrepresented the security and privacy of user data between May 2013 and September 2019 reuters.com
Ransomware Causes Airliner to Ground Flights, Leaving Customers Stranded pcmag.com
Home Broadband/Mobile Has Become Comcast's 'Lead Bundle,' CFO Says; + more notable news -

Home broadband/mobile has become Comcast's 'lead bundle,' CFO says lightreading.com
Dish s Mayo: So far, so good on meeting 5G buildout deadlines with $10B fiercewireless.com
Microsoft says 10M+ players stream games with Xbox Cloud Gaming; in September 2021, Nvidia said GeForce Now had 12M+ users; Google has not shared Stadia numbers 9to5google.com
CFO: Faster Verizon Fixed Wireless Speed May Soon Come Thanks to C-Band telecompetitor.com
'There's No Ceiling': Ransomware's Alarming Growth Signals a New Era, Verizon DBIR Finds darkreading.com
House Subcommittee Hearing Examines Human Side of Telecom Bills nextgov.com
T-Mobile vs Verizon vs AT&T: same old 5G winner further extends lead in new tests phonearena.com
Predator spyware sold with Chrome, Android zero-day exploits to monitor targets theregister.com
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Some LG Phones Are Being Essentially Bricked By A T-Mobile Bug; + more notable news -

Some LG phones are essentially bricked by T-Mobile bug phonearena.com
CMO Profiles Two Main Types of T-Mobile Fixed Wireless Customers telecompetitor.com
Nextlink sizes up gigabit speeds over fixed wireless lightreading.com
AT&T becomes first company to white label Google Stadia androidcentral.com
FCC eyes higher speed goals for small rural broadband convergedigest.com
Zero-day vulnerabilities in Chrome and Android exploited by commercial spyware blog.malwarebytes.com
A California bill could allow parents to sue social-media companies for up to $25,000 if their children become addicted to the platforms businessinsider.com
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Broadcom Is In Talks To Acquire VMware, Discussions Are Ongoing But No Guarantee They Will Lead To Purchase; + more news -

Broadcom is in talks to acquire VMware, which has a ~$40B market cap; the discussions are ongoing and there's no guarantee they will lead to a purchase bloomberg.com
FCC Seeks Input on Increasing A-CAM Broadband Speed Requirements for Rural Carriers telecompetitor.com
Frontier accelerates 2022 fiber buildout by up to 20% lightreading.com
Charter CEO frets over labor shortages lightreading.com
It s time for Toronto to create an affordable high-speed internet network thestar.com
T-Mobile isn t raising prices but upselling to Magenta Max fiercewireless.com
Report: Electronic Arts is looking to sell or merge; sources say EA pursued an NBCUniversal merger and held acquisition talks with Disney, Apple, and Amazon kotaku.com
Google: Predator spyware infected Android devices using zero-days bleepingcomputer.com
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Republicans, Opposed To ISP Common Carrier Status, Want Social Media Platforms Treated Like Public Utilities; + more -

Republicans, who opposed common carrier status for ISPs in the net neutrality debate, now want social media platforms to be treated like public utilities washingtonpost.com
Canada to ban Huawei and ZTE from 5G network theiet.org
Netflix could start streaming live TV and comedy to try and win back subscribers dailystar.co.uk
Netgear Says It Can t Fix Multiple Vulnerabilities On Two Of Its Routers For Homeworkers forbes.com
Frontier Has a Super Cluster Strategy, On Target to Exceed 2022 Fiber Deployment Goal telecompetitor.com
Charter CEO frets over labor shortages lightreading.com
Comcast not seeing 'material' churn from fixed wireless, but not taking it lightly lightreading.com
iPhone Users Report iMessage Deactivation Issue Linked to T-Mobile eSIM Accounts macrumors.com
Best TV streaming service: YouTube TV vs. SlingTV vs. Hulu + Live TV and all the rest techhive.com
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Do Mobile Telcos Really Need Fiber When They Have Microwave & mmWave?; + more notable news -

Do mobile telcos really need fiber when they have microwave & mmWave? rcrwireless.com
DISH to resell AT&T Internet services convergedigest.com
New York AG plans to investigate social media platforms used to stream, promote, or plan the Buffalo attack, including Twitch, Discord, 4chan, and 8chan cnbc.com
Altice USA ramps up for 5-Gig service lightreading.com
In Oklahoma, T-Mobile suddenly faces a new 5G spectrum landlord lightreading.com
That Was Fast! NTIA Reports Receiving 34 LOIs for $42.5B BEAD Broadband Program telecompetitor.com
Bad Bots Swarm the Internet in Record Numbers in 2021 infosecurity-magazine.com
Disney+ expects most people will choose ads over higher prices imore.com
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T-Mobile US Throws Down 5G Gauntlet To Slow-Moving Rivals; + more notable news -

T-Mobile US throws down 5G gauntlet to slow-moving rivals lightreading.com
Verizon boosts investment in Florida to address skyrocketing demands rcrwireless.com
Verizon, T-Mobile and My Personal Attempt to Replace Cable Internet With 5G cnet.com
The defunct LG Wing is getting Verizon C-band, because 5G in this country is silly cbsaustin.com
AT&T testing open RAN, but CTO won't offer deployment timelines lightreading.com
Cable One Says 10G Investments Are Approaching $1 Billion telecompetitor.com
What is 6G? How new technology could shape the future of mobile networks techmonitor.ai
Disney Plus ad tier details leaked: Only 4 minutes of commercials per hour bgr.com
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44% Of Americans Think Tech Giants Should Be Regulated More, Down From 56% In April 2021; + more notable news -

Survey: 44% of Americans think tech giants should be regulated more, down from 56% in April 2021, while 1 in 5 explicitly want less regulation, up from 1 in 10 pewresearch.org
More Verizon changes: price hikes, departure of biz CEO Erwin lightreading.com
Ting Internet to take on Comcast and Verizon in Alexandria lightreading.com
RDOF Funding Authorized for Frontier, Hawaiian Telcom, Lumen, Smaller Companies telecompetitor.com
Report: the real-time bidding industry exposes a person's online activity and location 747 times per day on average in the US and 376 times per day in Europe techcrunch.com
Ransomware group Conti threatens to overthrow Costa Rican government itpro.co.uk
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When Will Democrats Deliver On Their Promise To Restore Net Neutrality?; + more notable news -

When will Democrats deliver on their promise to restore net neutrality? fastcompany.com
Federal Agencies to Share Broadband Deployment Data telecompetitor.com
Funding Notice (NOFO) for $1 Billion IIJA Middle Mile Program Released telecompetitor.com
5G proponents fret over Biden's fiber fancy lightreading.com
Southwest Airlines to install Viasat's Ka-band service convergedigest.com
What's the Story? Dish Network's unwavering optimism for 5G lightreading.com
Disney+ to overtake Netflix for subs within four years digitaltveurope.com
Netflix is working on launching a live streaming feature phonearena.com
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AT&T Is About To Get Away With Its Bogus $1.99 'Administrative Fee'; + more notable news -

AT&T is about to get away with its bogus $1.99 administrative fee theverge.com
Starry posts customer growth, but waffles on some 2022 targets lightreading.com
5G Versus Wi-Fi Performance: It s a Horserace, Says Opensignal telecompetitor.com
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel proposes using E-Rate program funding to deploy Wi-Fi on school buses telecompetitor.com
Four 5G takeaways from Dish's big analyst day lightreading.com
RootMetrics: Verizon s 5G boosted by C-Band deployments, but T-Mo leads in speed rcrwireless.com
While Cord-Cutting Accelerates, Streaming Growth Slows: Analyst nexttv.com
Starlink now available to ship immediately in 32 countries theverge.com
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Dish's Boost Resurrects Ad-Supported Mobile Service - Again; + more notable news -

Dish's Boost resurrects ad-supported mobile service - again lightreading.com
48m American households could get subsidised broadband, but experts say subsidy cash could run out by 2025 totaltele.com
Where does cable go from here? lightreading.com
Battle lines for the future of the Internet brookings.edu
What the Rogers-Shaw merger battle says about the state of competition in Canada cbc.ca
Big Tech Warns of Texas Fairness Doctrine for Edge nexttv.com
The Netflix Nickel-And-Diming Is Probably Only Just Getting Started techdirt.com
Disney's streaming subscribers hit 205.6M globally in Q2: Disney+ added 7.9M subscribers to reach 137.7M, Hulu added 300K to 45.6M, and ESPN+ added 1M to 22.3M hollywoodreporter.com
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Team Biden Celebrates Broadband Accomplishments, Yet Is Leaving FCC Nominee Gigi Sohn Hanging Out To Dry; + more news -

Team Biden Celebrates Broadband Accomplishments, Yet Is Leaving FCC Nominee Gigi Sohn Hanging Out To Dry techdirt.com
Rural Carriers Get Another Reprieve from FCC USF Budget Control telecompetitor.com
Dish's 5G targets: 40M smartphone customers and 20% of the enterprise market lightreading.com
Netflix s ad-supported tier will reportedly roll out sooner than expected arstechnica.com
Cable, Telcos Will Fight for Broadband Market Share as Growth Opportunities nexttv.com
Samsung: We need to expand mmWave to meet 6G needs lightreading.com
Attack on Viasat satellite internet service blamed on Russia siliconangle.com
AT&T the First Carrier to Use GPS for 911 Location webpronews.com
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