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Monday Morning Links -

With streaming move, Google eyes future of gaming phys.org
Democrats hit the gas on Net neutrality bill cnet.com
Sen. John Kennedy (R - LA.) Urges FCC to Reject C-Band Alliance Proposal multichannel.com
FCC opens ultra-high bands for testing - Could be the future of 6G and near-cognition computing multichannel.com
AT&T Can't Get Out Of Its Own Way seekingalpha.com
Verizon s 5G Ultra Wideband pricing scheme is a hint at what s to come fiercewireless.com
ISPs strike deal with Vermont to suspend tough state net neutrality law arstechnica.com
Verizon Visible review: Aimed at millenials and Gen Z; 'probably Verizon s most versatile product offering yet' pocketnow.com
Pay-TV Model Must Be 'Blown Up' lightreading.com
FCC Says Its Done Implementing Rural Call Completion Act, But Not All Commissioners Agree telecompetitor.com
Friday Morning Links -

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp suffered an epic global outage - Facebook denies it was a DDoS attack, blames naughty servers washingtonpost.com
Comcast hooks you with internet and cable TV. Video games could be next cnet.com
Analyst: Defining the 5G Opportunity for Wireline Carriers telecompetitor.com
FCC Garners $284M in Initial Bids in New 24GHz 5G Auction lightreading.com
Senators: FCC should diversify broadband mapping data sources, suggests adding public and local government data multichannel.com
Senators press AT&T/DirecTV for small-market, remote area TV signals - Say company should find way to serve those markets with their own or nearby affiliate signals broadcastingcable.com
DirecTV Now vs. Sling TV vs. YouTube TV vs. Hulu and more: Live TV channels compared cnet.com
Here are the very tiny areas where Verizon is rolling out 5G in Chicago and Minneapolis pcmag.com
Microsoft to extend Xbox Live to Android and iOS, but company stays mum on Switch and PS4 compatibility geekwire.com
Facebook may soon let you watch live TV with friends in Watch Party digitaltrends.com
Steam Link Anywhere beta let's you stream your games on any machine running Steam engadget.com
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Thursday Morning Links - Pi Day Edition -

5G Is Coming for Real, but It Will Cost You wired.com
FirstNet is AT&T s springboard to 5G rcrwireless.com
Implementing the Next Generation of Wireless Broadband Has Huge Implications for the Entire Communications Industry telecompetitor.com
Verizon Says Its Mobile 5G Service Is Really Unlimited lightreading.com
CableLabs CEO: 10G a 'Collection of Technologies' lightreading.com
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) & Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) form working group to try to find bipartisan path forward on Net Neutrality legislation multichannel.com
AMC Networks, Discovery and Viacom hurt after AT&T confirms they're being dropped by DirecTV Now broadcastingcable.com
AT&T: Our 5G will cover 200 million people, but businesses will drive profits venturebeat.com
Rakuten TV to expand movie streaming to 42 European countries reuters.com
Apple Music is now available on Amazon's Fire TV in the U.S. neowin.net
Google Could Join Samsung, Huawei With Foldable Pixel forbes.com
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Wednesday Morning Links -

House hearing on Democrats' net neutrality bill gets testy: Republicans say the Democrats' bill has no chance of passing the Senate, and they call for a "real bipartisan" effort to protect the internet cnet.com
Verizon texting outage hit East Coast on Tuesday; outage now fully resloved nypost.com
WOW Expands in Cleveland lightreading.com
ICANN s internet DNS security upgrade apparently goes off without a glitch networkworld.com
AT&T hopes to eliminate truck rolls on new Directv video installations by using a box dubbed Osprey in place of a satellite dish telecompetitor.com
Comcast Strategy: Emphasize Broadband over Video as Broadband Take Rate Reaches 47% telecompetitor.com
T-Mobile's Legere: No Huawei tech going in 5G Net, period; offers to help smaller carriers remove that tech from their services broadcastingcable.com
Sprint, T-Mobile Merger: Lifeline Assistance Will Continue If Merger Is Approved ibtimes.com
Government duplicating efforts to bring Internet to rural U.S., experts say upi.com
Disney, Fox Set March 20 for Deal Close multichannel.com
Google will share its "vision for the future of gaming" on March 19 - possibly what next steps are for Project Stream androidcentral.com
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Tuesday Morning Links -

Charter CEO Hints at Smart Home Management Service lightreading.com
Apple sets March event date ahead of possible TV service launch reuters.com
WOW Won't Wax Wireless for Now lightreading.com
AT&T makes good on December promise to thin out bundle and reset the price point: DirecTV Now revises packaging, ups prices to $50 and $70 multichannel.com
FCC chief Pai reflects on an impactful - and contentious - two years at the helm multichannel.com
Huawei connects rural America. Could it threaten the country's most sensitive military sites? cnn.com
Verizon's creepy digital Lia is so realistic, you'd wish the 5G virus stayed in the labs phonearena.com
T-Mobile s revised plan for C-Band a fatally flawed gambit: CBA fiercewireless.com
ESL Mobile Open launches with AT&T as founding sponsor esportsinsider.com
Sprint calls AT&T's '5G E' branding 'fake 5G' in NY Times full page 'letter to consumers' ad, promises own 5G network in 2019 appleinsider.com
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Monday Morning Links -

Surprisingly, the world didn't end without net neutrality washingtonexaminer.com
Democrats want to save the Internet. They ll need Republicans help. washingtonpost.com
AT&T & Verizon's Battle Over Public Safety Spills Into 5G lightreading.com
US 'Miles Behind' China & UK on 5G, Says Vodafone UK's CTO lightreading.com
Rep. Anthony Brindisi (D-N.Y.) Slams Cable Broadband Providers on House Floor multichannel.com
Visible giving customers $100 to switch or up to $200 off a new phone pocketnow.com
Happy with your phone but not your carrier? Google Fi has a deal for you phonearena.com
Microsoft soldiers on with its TV white spaces initiative fiercewireless.com
Biker sues Google Fiber: I broke my leg, borked my ankle in trench dug to lay ad giant's pipe theregister.co.uk
Elizabeth Warren wants to turn the internet into a literal sewer (service) cnbc.com
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TGI Friday Morning Links -

Tired of smashing your face into the brick wall that is US net neutrality? Too bad. There's a long way to go yet, friends theregister.co.uk
FCC looking into reported error throwing broadband deployment numbers off by millions techcrunch.com
Legere blog: New T-Mobile will create a true alternative to fixed broadband, pledges to change cableopoly with in-home service t-mobile.com
Report: Fiber-based Broadband Will Power 59% of 1.2 Billion Connections by 2025 telecompetitor.com
Satellite's Grip on C-Band Spectrum for 5G Could Be Slipping lightreading.com
AT&T Is Collecting Lots of 700MHz Spectrum Licenses, Possibly for 5G lightreading.com
FCC halts review of the Sprint/T-Mobile Merger so public can comment on substantial new motivations the carriers have filed for their combination pocketnow.com
House Democrats want records on Trump's reported involvement in AT&T-Time Warner deal cnn.com
DirecTV Now Gains Apple TV App Integration macrumors.com
Comcast Deal Benefits "Flowing in Both Directions," Sky CEO Says hollywoodreporter.com
Windstream is receiving $2.2 million in funding from the Nebraska USF to expand access to Kinetic Internet in 13 of its state-based exchanges telecompetitor.com
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Thursday Morning Links -

Democrats Reveal 'Save The Internet Act' To Restore Net Neutrality, But It Faces An Uphill Battle buzzfeednews.com
Shentel Follows Sprint Into Massive MIMO & 5G lightreading.com
'No Signs of Wireless Substitution' for In-Home Broadband in Q4 - Analyst lightreading.com
Cord Cutting nearly doubled in 2018 to 2.9M: Attrition was led by satellite operators, which lost nearly 2.4 million linear customers multichannel.com
New Household Formation Boosts Broadband - Analyst says sub additions recover from 2017 lull multichannel.com
House to hold hearing on Sprint, T-mobile proposed merger reuters.com
Seven more T-Mobile phones will be able to help protect their owners from getting scammed phonearena.com
Big 4 carriers are still testing Project Verify for mobile ID authentication fiercewireless.com
AT&T s new HBO chief criticizes Netflix, says it doesn t have a brand theverge.com
37 House members come out against proposed Sprint/T-Mobile US merger rcrwireless.com
Google reveals that a patch for Chrome last week was actually a fix for a sandbox-escaping zero-day exploit that was being actively used in the wild zdnet.com
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Wednesday Morning Links -

5G progress set to disrupt test processes, signifies a generational transformation that will profoundly impact businesses and consumers across the globe ieee.org
T-Mobile acknowledges that its executives' patronage of Trump's Washington hotel, spending ~$195K, increased sharply after announcement of merger with Sprint washingtonpost.com
Dish Network Aspires to Be America's Rakuten in 5G lightreading.com
AT&T, Verizon Perpetuate a 5G mmWave Mystery lightreading.com
Comcast: Only Very Small Number of Customers Impacted by Mobile PIN Security Breach multichannel.com
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) schedules rural broadband hearing to look at FCC efforts to boost buildout multichannel.com
Huawei ban won't make the US fall behind in 5G technology, experts say no cnbc.com
Is Trump s Attempt to Stop the AT&T-Time Warner Merger Impeachable? slate.com
Progressives want the T-Mobile-Sprint merger dead theverge.com
Verizon Mobile Security Index Finds Companies Are Forgoing Mobile Security to Get The Job Done telecompetitor.com
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Tuesday Morning Links -

House Democrats will introduce bill to reinstate net neutrality rules engadget.com
US Telcos Teeter Toward Bankruptcy As Comcast's Broadband Monopoly Grows techdirt.com
Why Cable Operators Need DAA lightreading.com
New Facebook Fiber Network May Offer Capacity to Other Network Operators telecompetitor.com
Windstream Broadband Sees Twelfth Month of Subscriber Growth telecompetitor.com
Source Says POTUS Pressured DOJ to Block AT&T/TW multichannel.com
AT&T now has the goods to take on Netflix and Disney in the streaming wars yahoo.com
Confusion reigns in Trump 2020's 5G 'wholesale' vision fiercewireless.com
Huawei Will Sue the U.S. for Banning Government Agencies From Using Its Products psmag.com
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Monday Morning Links -

YouTube and Hulu have taken millions of customers from pay-TV providers bloomberg.com
Synchview Lobs DVR Patent Suits at Cox, Charter, Altice USA, Hulu lightreading.com
U.S. Cellular to Launch 5G in the Second Half of 2019 lightreading.com
Text from T-Mobile will give some of its long-time subscribers their first taste of unlimited data phonearena.com
Trump's campaign wants the government to control 5G techspot.com
I feel cheated': Big telcos hike prices for $60 plans with 10 GB, sparking complaints - Telcos say they can change the price on these month-to-month deals cbc.ca
Comcast set mobile pins to 0000, helping attackers steal phone numbers - Xfinity Mobile deploys fix after weak PIN system fueled number-porting attacks arstechnica.com
T-Mobile claims 96% rural America coverage with Sprint by 2024 fiercewireless.com
Extradition hearing for Huawei CFO gets go-ahead from Canada cnet.com
Sprint brings back its $25 a month Unlimited Kickstart Plan phonearena.com
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Friday Morning Links -

Brit ISPs must now offer customers a minimum speed guarantee theinquirer.net
Streaming services are 'killing' piracy, New Zealand study claims techspot.com
Cable One 'Happy' to See Broadband Subs Go With OTT-TV lightreading.com
FCC Ready to Authorize $140M in Rural Broadband Funding for CAF II Auction Winners, Verizon Among Them telecompetitor.com
Three of the nation s four largest wireless carriers - AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon - have qualified to bid in the upcoming 24 GHz millimeter wave spectrum auction telecompetitor.com
Windstream Gets Access to $400 Million in Bankruptcy Financing multichannel.com
T-Mobile and Sprint promise low-cost 5G coverage for rural America, aiding remote workers techrepublic.com
FCC: Cox, Frontier Not Qualified to Bid on 24 GHZ Spectrum broadcastingcable.com
5G is here. But it will cost you cnet.com
RIAA: US revenue for recorded music grew 12% in 2018 to $9.8B largely due to a 30% surge in streaming revenue; subscriptions to services like Spotify topped 50M variety.com
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