• DirecTV, Dish Are Close to Clinching Merger Agreement [bloomberg.com]
• California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2426, which forces digital stores to tell customers they are getting a revocable license when "buying" digital media [theverge.com]
• Starlink crosses 4M customers; it started beta services in October 2020 and hit 1M subscribers in December 2022, 2M in September 2023, and 3M in May 2024 [techcrunch.com]
• 5G Now 34% of all North American Cellular Connections, Driven by IoT Growth [telecompetitor.com]
• Comcast ready to hit the accelerator on DOCSIS 4.0 [lightreading.com]
• Google TV is now winning the TV race - and it has blown past Roku [tomsguide.com]
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• 'Reliability' is the new hot thing in broadband networks [fierce-network.com]
• Charter, Comcast, Broadcom to Cooperate on 25 Gbps DOCSIS 4 Chipsets [telecompetitor.com]
• White House 6G priorities: Openness and security, and the 6G part isn't a prerequisite [lightreading.com]
• If T-Mobile is trying to offer you compensation for its price hikes, you're probably being scammed [phonearena.com]
• Kaspersky Leaves U.S., Deletes Itself, Swaps Everybody’s Antivirus For Software Nobody Asked For [techdirt.com]
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• CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company's faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers [cyberscoop.com]
• Cox Files "Blistering Lawsuit" Against Rhode Island Over Planned BEAD Funding Usage [telecompetitor.com]
• Charter and CableLabs connect on network-as-a-service platform [lightreading.com]
• T-Mobile Leans On Recent Supreme Court Chevron Ruling To Insist The FCC Can’t Require All Phones Be Unlocked [techdirt.com]
• Broadcom responds to AT&T’s VMware support lawsuit: AT&T has "other options" [arstechnica.com]
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• FCC greenlights EchoStar's revised 5G buildout plan [lightreading.com]
• Qualcomm/Intel tie-up is problematic for 3 big reasons [fierce-network.com]
• MDU Wi-Fi Isn’t Easy - But Residents Like It [telecompetitor.com]
• Google TV Streamer review: excellent UI, Google Assistant, fast controls, smart home hub, and handy Find My feature, but not a huge speed bump and only Wi-Fi 5 [theverge.com]
• California Governor Gavin Newsom signs the Phone-Free Schools Act, which will require schools to restrict cellphone use during school hours by July 1, 2026 [nytimes.com]
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• The FCC wants all phones unlocked in sixty days, AT&T and T-Mobile aren't so keen on the plan [androidauthority.com]
• Customer frustration as UK ISP’s smart TVs won’t turn on [arstechnica.com]
• Charter Spectrum Begins New Charm Offensive To Address Cable’s Well-Earned Reputation For Sucking [techdirt.com]
• Qualcomm is reportedly eyeing a takeover of Intel [engadget.com]
• T-Mobile dedicates 5G network slice to first responders [lightreading.com]
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• US accuses social media giants of 'vast surveillance' [techxplore.com]
• Starlink Subscribers in Certain Areas May Pay Additional $100 Charge [telecompetitor.com]
• Dish seeks more time for 5G buildout [lightreading.com]
• Mistrial declared for ex-AT&T exec accused of bribing government official [arstechnica.com]
• YouTube joins DirecTV, Sling TV and Hulu by using targeted ads on pause screens [engadget.com]
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• 'It’s not worth it': Can you get arrested for having an Amazon Fire Stick? [dailydot.com]
• T-Mobile Aims to Pass 12-15M More Households with Fiber by 2030 [telecompetitor.com]
• Live sports streaming and traffic spikes: A remedy for rural networks [totaltele.com]
• ISPs tell Supreme Court they don’t want to disconnect users accused of piracy [arstechnica.com]
• T-Mobile announces a multi-year partnership with OpenAI that includes building IntentCX, a customer service system powered by AI agents [axios.com]
• YouTube plans a major connected TV app revamp, with a new UI and features like immersive previews for creator pages and a more prominent subscribe functionality [hollywoodreporter.com]
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• AT&T fined $13M for data breach after giving customer bill info to vendor [arstechnica.com]
• SoftBank, Intelsat join forces to create global 'Ubiquitous Network' [capacitymedia.com]
• Charter’s Spectrum Overhauls CX Model, Featuring Lower Prices and No Contracts [telecompetitor.com]
• Charter leans harder into convergence with 'Life Unlimited' [lightreading.com]
• The GSM Association plans to enable E2EE on messages between Android and iOS; Google is working to bring cross-platform E2EE to RCS chats "as soon as possible" [heverge.com]
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• Dish, DirecTV are in merger talks again - report [lightreading.com]
• ILSR Releases Interactive Map of Municipal Broadband Networks, Showing Their Growth [telecompetitor.com]
• Americans Consumed 100 Trillion Megabytes Of Wireless Data Last Year (And Paid Too Much For It) [techdirt.com]
• Can't get there from here: 6G requires 5G SA [fierce-network.com]
• US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps [arstechnica.com]
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• 1.3 million Android-based TV boxes backdoored; researchers still don’t know how [arstechnica.com]
• NTCA and ACA Say BEAD Must Continue to Prioritize Fiber Over Alternative Technologies [telecompetitor.com]
• Will Frontier shareholders demand more from Verizon? [lightreading.com]
• The Port of Seattle says the Rhysida ransomware operation was behind an August 24 cyberattack and “it does appear that some Port data was obtained by the actor” [bleepingcomputer.com]
• TikTok's US future hangs in balance at federal court [techxplore.com]
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• Monopolized U.S. Telecom Industry Eyes More Consolidation, Because What Could Go Wrong [techdirt.com]
• NTCA’s Bloomfield Shares Good and Bad of BEAD Implementation in U.S. House Testimony [telecompetitor.com]
• US cable could reach mobile 'equilibrium' at 32.68M lines [lightreading.com]
• Microsoft plans to make changes to Windows that will help CrowdStrike, Broadcom, and other security vendors operate outside of the Windows kernel [theverge.com]
• Netflix will no longer provide support for iPhones and iPads running iOS 16 [9to5mac.com]
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