So far, Altice's promise to revolutionize the American cable market doesn't look much different from the cable industry of years' past. Users in our Optimum forum note that Altice, which owns both Suddenlink and Optimum, is pushing a bevy of new rate hikes onto Optimum broadband and cable TV customers starting November 1. Among the hikes is an expansion of the company's "Broadcast TV fee," a misleading surcharge cable companies hide below the line to covertly jack up the advertised rate post sale.

Altice is also jacking up the price of the company's basic cable tier at a time where more users than ever are cutting the traditional cable TV cord -- largely to avoid endlessly paying more money for the same service. The company says it's also raising the company's "Sports Surcharge,"

The hikes aren't entirely Altice's fault, of course. Broadcasters continue to raise rates hand over fist, and the company just signed off on a massive new rate hike requested by Disney during contract negotiations for its channels. That said, cable providers aren't blameless, often rushing to also raise rates on broadband services and a wide variety of additional hardware and service-related surcharges. Often while simultaneously making dramatic cuts to essentials like customer service.

A flaw on T-Mobile's website allowed hackers to access T-Mobile subscriber information using just a phone number. The flaw, discovered by security researcher Karan Saini, allowed intruders to obtain users' email addresses, T-Mobile account numbers, and the their phone's unique IMSI identifier.

Donald Trump has threatened to pull Comcast NBC Universal's broadcast license after the news outlet reported the President was seeking a ten fold expansion in the country's nuclear arsenal. The report cited three military officials that were in the room at the time of the request, who all stated that advisors, Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson were collectively "surprised" at Trump's request, and struggled in explaining how the request was logistically cumbersome and could run afoul of disarmament treaties.

Dish has announced that the company is suspending all TV services to both Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands as both try to recover from the utter devastation from Hurricane Maria. In a statement, Dish said the company would be suspending all services to ensure that customers on the island are not being billed for services they can't receive.

While Microsoft's Windows Phone has been on life support for several years now, the company this week formally acknowledged the death of the marginally-popular handset. Speaking on Twitter, Microsoft’s corporate VP for Windows, Joe Belfiore, acknowledged that while Microsoft would continue to release security updates for the platform (for now), the company is no longer actively trying to improve the platform.

• FCC’s claim that one ISP counts as “competition” faces scrutiny in court [arstechnica.com]

• Analysis of 42m US broadband speed tests reveals the fastest and slowest places in America: Rhode Island is fastest (36.69Mbps), Montana is last (10.49Mbps) [prnewswire.com]

• T-Mobile website bug may have exposed millions of customers' personal data to hackers [ibtimes.co.uk]

• Regulators May Oppose T-Mobile-Sprint Deal Even Under Trump, Analyst Warns [fortune.com]

• Cable Broadband’s Future Lies in Deep Fiber, WOW! is First Up [telecompetitor.com]

• ABI: Internet Giants Striking Out with Broadband Access Projects [telecompetitor.com]

• Google rolls out patch to partially fix bug that caused Google Home Minis to repeatedly record, transmit audio to company, says it is working on a long-term fix [androidpolice.com]

• T-Mobile to cover Netflix's price increase for its "Netflix On Us" giveaway [phonearena.com]

So far, the FCC has refused to release any data that would identify the bulk public comment submitters (legitimate or not) to their recent Net Neutrality proceeding. However, based on emails obtained from the agency in response to a FOIA request, I can now confirm the name of one previously unknown bulk submitter -- CQ Roll Call.

Problem is, the Economist Group-owned, influential Beltway organization -- who actually had one of their reporters pinned to a wall by FCC guards in May after a press conference -- won’t tell me anything about the “client” they were submitting comments to the FCC for.

According to the records, CQ Roll Call’s SVP of Technology and Chief Digital Officer, Dan Germain, sent an email to ECFSHelp@fcc.gov, the FCC’s help account for their Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS), on April 18.

Titled “ECFS - API and limits”, Germain quoted a portion of the FCC’s API Terms of Service explaining how use of the agency’s Application Programming Interface is “subject to certain limitations on access, calls, or use as set forth within this Agreement or otherwise provided by the FCC.”

He asked where the API and “web form” limitations could be found, noting that CQ Roll Call was “working on a campaign for one of our customers that might have us submitting millions of individual comments to a forthcoming proceeding” and that they didn’t “want to create any technical problems in your environment.”

Germain then asked if they would “prefer to receive a csv file that you can upload directly in to your system?” I should note here that these emails were given to me last Friday in response to the final part of my FOIA request, asking for “All e-mail inquiries to ECFSHelp@fcc.gov regarding .CSV comment submissions in response to Proceeding 17-108, ‘Restoring Internet Freedom’” between April 26 and they date they received my request, June 5.