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Friday Morning Links -

2020 Democrats Big Tech breakup, Internet for all plans a tough sell for voters washingtontimes.com
UK 5G Trial Tests Li-Fi Wireless Broadband via Solar Panels ispreview.co.uk
AT&T, Comcast, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, and seven other US carriers announce an agreement with 51 attorneys general to implement new tech to block robocalls nytimes.com
FCC approves $4.9B in funding for rural broadband improvements techcrunch.com
The FCC has no idea how many people don t have broadband access arstechnica.com
Verizon Boingo Deal Aims to Boost Indoor 5G; Phoenix Added to Verizon Mobile 5G Markets telecompetitor.com
Here's How T-Mobile Reduced LTE Congestion by 71% lightreading.com
Consumers Overpay for Broadband - Study lightreading.com
Valve patches recent Steam 0-days, calls turning away researcher who found them a mistake , and updates bug bounty program to start accepting LPE"-class bugs zdnet.com
Google stops using dessert-themed names for Android for better worldwide accessibility, names Android Q Android 10, and refreshes Android brand logo and color theverge.com
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Thursday Morning Links -

Outages are affecting all four major U.S. carriers phonearena.com
More telcos complain about CRTC decision on wholesale internet rates cbc.ca
AT&T TV: An Unskinny Streaming Bundle That Looks a Lot Like Traditional Pay TV variety.com
USTelecom Broadband Map Pilot: Up to 38% of Served Rural Locations Actually Lack Broadband telecompetitor.com
T-Mobile Resolves Video Throttling Issue Amid Another PR Dustup lightreading.com
Sen. Manchin Pledges to be FCC's Broadband Speed Pen Pal - Will keep providing speed test reports from state until FCC data collection improves multichannel.com
Cox Partners with SCTE to Train Techs to Splice Coax - Initiative aimed at supporting cable company s fiber deep strategy multichannel.com
The two year upgrade cycle is dead, according to new survey by Ting Mobile rcrwireless.com
Deutsche Telekom to launch console-free gaming service MagentaGaming convergedigest.com
Atlantic Broadband Expands Gigabit Deployments lightreading.com
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Wednesday Morning Links -

AT&T brings cable TV prices to online streaming with $135 monthly plan arstechnica.com
Wireless Carrier Throttling of Online Video Is Pervasive itprotoday.com
Common Networks Tangles With Comcast in California lightreading.com
FCC Proposes Stricter Lifeline Low-Income Broadband and Voice Program Rules telecompetitor.com
FCC s CenturyLink 911 Outage Report Reveals Tech Transition Risk telecompetitor.com
Disney+ Won't Be Available on Amazon Fire TV at Launch multichannel.com
T-Mobile US opens a 5G device testing lab rcrwireless.com
Verizon Wireless Is Now Offering a Free Month of YouTube TV With New Unlimited Plans cordcuttersnews.com
Hands-on with an early preview of Apple Arcade, which will reportedly cost $4.99/month, and some early-access trial games on macOS 9to5mac.com
Thousands of MoviePass customers credit card numbers were exposed online theverge.com
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Monday Morning Links -

Three UK rolls out 5G home internet access in London engadget.com
Publicly-Owned broadband networks on which ISPs offer service are the best model for gaining broadband in communities lacking the service telecompetitor.com
Here's What Trump's Huawei Ban Cost US Firms in Q2 lightreading.com
Dish's CEO to Boost Dealers: 'We Want to Change the Way the World Communicates' lightreading.com
Both Hulu with Live TV and YouTube TV added around 300,000 users in the second quarter multichannel.com
Average Wireline Broadband Data Usage Up 25% to 271GB multichannel.com
Verizon to shutter Fios1 News northjersey.com
Confirmed: AT&T TV Launches Tomorrow in 10 Test Markets cordcuttersnews.com
Democratic Senators Urge FCC to Delay T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Vote, Seek Public Comment gizmodo.com
23 Texas local governments hit in what appears to be a coordinated ransomware attack zdnet.com
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Friday Morning Links -

Apple will soon treat online web tracking the same as a security vulnerability thenextweb.com
Cord-cutting set to spike as broadband users drop bundles rapidtvnews.com
Is the Worst Over for US Pay-TV? lightreading.com
Will Charter Integrate Disney+ into Spectrum TV? multichannel.com
CBS All Access and Pluto TV to Be Complementary in New ViacomCBS Alignment multichannel.com
T-Mobile again wins a gold star from JD Power for its customer service bgr.com
T-Mobile-Sprint and states looking to block the merger are "miles apart" after preliminary talks phonearena.com
CRTC lowers wholesale broadband rates, makes it cheaper for small internet companies to purchase broadband from big telcos in order to boost competition among providers cbc.ca
As Trump's FCC Chair tries to ram through Sprint/T-Mobile merger, expert says claims it will benefit consumers are 'approximately 0% true': "The deal will result in higher prices for all consumers, and worse phone service - especially for rural Americans." commondreams.org
How one broken cable caused a 20hr communications blackout affecting mobile phones, internet across Australia's north abc.net.au
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Thursday Morning Links -

5G startup launches 300 Mbps broadband for $49 cnet.com
Comcast Is Gouging People Who Watch Too Much Netflix futurism.com
AT&T and T-Mobile have started rolling out cross-network call authentication services to protect against spam and spoofed robocalls engadget.com
Charter and Disney Exploring a Disney+ OTT Streaming Bundle Distribution Deal telecompetitor.com
Pai Affirms T-Mobile-Sprint Merger; Cites 5G Value - Deal still faces scrutiny in 16 States; no FCC timetable set multichannel.com
Verizon creams Sprint in battle of 5G dataspeeds phonearena.com
T-Mobile Signals That Cheaper 5G Phones Are Coming pcmag.com
Broadband is too important for this many in the US to be disconnected brookings.edu
What s the economic impact of blocking Huawei in the US? rcrwireless.com
Can Major Internet Sites Create Successful Paid Services? techpinions.com
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Wednesday Morning Links -

CenturyLink, FCC reach settlement over 'cramming' fees on phone bills cnet.com
Netflix s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs latimes.com
Pete Buttigieg rolls out $80 billion plan to improve rural broadband theverge.com
US Broadband Sub Gains Slow to 370K in Q2 2019 lightreading.com
Verizon sues Rochester, NY to avoid paying fees the city levied over its 5G deployments, uses the FCC's controversial order limiting such fees to argue its case arstechnica.com
Nokia Delays Sprint's 5G Rollout lightreading.com
CBS and Viacom to Combine multichannel.com
AT&T kicks off rebranding of DirecTV Now service to AT&T TV Now phonearena.com
Key driver for 10 Gbps broadband service will be a desire for instant gratification, telecompetitor.com
Spotify is discussing a plan with Apple to finally let iPhone users tell Siri to play songs, playlists, albums with voice commands, as anti-trust battle looms theinformation.com
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Tuesday Morning Links -

Frontier network outages get worse in NY, triggering state investigation arstechnica.com
The Trump administration drafted an executive order to censor the internet thenextweb.com
FCC OKs Another $121M For Rural Broadband lightreading.com
French regulators approve a plan by the country's heavyweight broadcasters to launch Salto, a joint streaming service expected in Q1 2020, to battle Netflix variety.com
Top US Pay-TV Providers Dump Record 1.53M Subs in Q2 lightreading.com
CBS, Viacom Near Merger Price as Talks Continue multichannel.com
T-Mobile, Sprint lawsuit gains momentum mobileworldlive.com
AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon Blasted For Data Privacy Policies threatpost.com
Verizon Admits Your 5G Service Might Be More Like Good 4G extremetech.com
Verizon sells Tumblr to WordPress owner Automattic Inc computing.co.uk
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Monday Morning Links -

Google Fiber will bring wireless gigabit internet to Austin engadget.com
Comcast Internet Essentials Broadband Now Offered to Almost 7M Low-Income Households telecompetitor.com
U.S. Cellular's CTO gives a few more details about the operator's 5G plans ahead of the provider's 2020 launch lightreading.com
FCC: 5G is safe, does not cause health concerns like cancer, nor do transmissions in millimeter-wave spectrum lightreading.com
Microsoft brands Rural Divide 'National Crisis' as it pitches its Airband as solution multichannel.com
Cable One Margins Approach 50% as Residential Broadband Revenue Soars multichannel.com
AT&T TV NOW & DIRECTV NOW Are Still Blacking Out Many Local CBS Stations cordcuttersnews.com
Comcast Wireless Joins Verizon In Charging You More For HD Video techdirt.com
Verizon is charging a rural library $880 for accidentally using 440MB of data in Canada theverge.com
India s top telco to offer free 4K TVs with its upcoming broadband service thenextweb.com
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Friday Morning Links** -

Pai s FCC orders cities and towns to stop regulating cable broadband - Cities can't use cable authority to regulate broadband or charge more fees arstechnica.com
FCC greenlights $20 billion rural broadband subsidy auction cnet.com
Atlantic Broadband Gains Franchise in Virginia County lightreading.com
FCC finally orders ISPs to say exactly where they offer broadband - ISPs will have to submit geospatial maps of broadband service areas arstechnica.com
SetTV Is Now Really, Really Dead: California court hits alleged OTT-TV pirate with $7.6 million fine and permanent injunction on the service and the operation and distribution of a device used to stream hundreds of TV channels for just $20/month lightreading.com
Texas joins states suing to stop T-Mobile, Sprint deal as trial delayed until December uk.reuters.com
TiVo CEO Shull: We Have Hundreds of Patents We Believe Are Valid Against Comcast multichannel.com
Telcos around the world hit by long-term intelligence gathering cyberattack csoonline.com
Verizon to unveil four new unlimited plans on August 2 phonearena.com
Following its move to stop selling new Dash buttons in February, Amazon says it will turn off the capabilities of all its Dash buttons worldwide on August 31 engadget.com

**The Morning Links will be on hiatus for the next week whilst yours truly takes a small but well-earned reprieve from link duty and invades the US East Coast with my family. After much pillaging and delicious NY-style pizza, I - and the Morning Links - will return on Monday, August 12th. :)
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Thursday Morning Links -

Lawsuit filed by ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC against the makers of Locast, a nonprofit funded by AT&T that provides free online access to broadcast TV stations arstechnica.com
Canadian regulator CRTC publishes internet code of conduct that ISPs must abide by cbc.ca
A look at the potential benefits of 5G in a variety of applications and services, including AR/VR, healthcare, emergency response, connected cars, and broadband cnet.com
Verizon Expands Mobile 5G to Four More Markets telecompetitor.com
Pew Database Offers a Wealth of Information About State Broadband Programs telecompetitor.com
Altice USA Signs AT&T to Nationwide Roaming Deal lightreading.com
Verizon delays 3G Network shutdown until 2020 lightreading.com
T-Mobile does something that no other carrier on earth has done before: It completed a stand-alone 5G data session phonearena.com
The New AT&T TV Streaming Service Will Require an AT&T Branded Android TV Streaming Player cordcuttersnews.com
Facebook is working on a new TV device that can stream video and make video calls using its Portal tech, and has approached Netflix, Disney, and others reuters.com
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Wednesday Morning Links -

AT&T Killing Off DirecTV Now Name as It Launches AT&T TV Streaming Service variety.com
Russia Bans Connection to OneWeb Global Internet Satellites bleepingcomputer.com
Comcast now gives parents the option of kicking kids off their WiFi network engadget.com
Comcast's Xfinity Mobile to tweak by-the-gig pricing, adding two new options: 3GB for $30/month and 10GB for $60/month lightreading.com
T-Mobile's Jobs Pledge Smells Fishy lightreading.com
Sling TV Added 48K Customers in Q2 - Dish Network satellite TV down only 79,000 users amid share stealing from DirecTV multichannel.com
GTCR, Mega Broadband Investments to Buy Vyve Broadband; Deal will double MBI s cable footprint multichannel.com
U.S. could decide on licenses for companies to sell to Huawei by next week reuters.com
1 Big Reason T-Mobile/Sprint Will Be Good for Consumers fool.com
Small Cable Companies Are Bullish on Rural Broadband Expansion telecompetitor.com
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