• Frontier Sets Bankruptcy Exit Date, Names New Board [telecompetitor.com]
• AT&T is upgrading the speeds of its Fiber home internet plans [cnet.com]
• Starlink creates risk of internet investment doom cycle, says APNIC researcher [theregister.com]
• Ltd (top winner of the FCC's RDOF Phase 1 auction) to FCC: We can do it [lightreading.com]
• Ofcom Reveal Final Results of UK 5G Mobile Spectrum Auction [ispreview.co.uk]
• Pentagon explains odd transfer of 175 million IP addresses to obscure company [arstechnica.com]
• Charter Responds to Critics of its RDOF Winning Bid [telecompetitor.com]
• Roku says anti-competitive demands from Google, including requests for preferential treatment of apps like YouTube TV, may force YouTube TV off Roku's platform [axios.com]
• Researcher shows that for months macOS had a flaw that would let apps run despite not being notarized by Apple's service; bug is patched in macOS Big Sur 11.3 [techcrunch.com]
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• 'It's the biggest thing in the history of the internet': Pentagon quietly transfers 175 million internet addresses to mysterious firm in Florida [dailymail.co.uk]
• Maybe high-speed internet is infrastructure after all, say US Republicans in proposal to spend $65bn over five years [theregister.com]
• Comcast Teases 4Gbps Speeds - Just Not Yet [webpronews.com]
• Questions cloud America's next big midband spectrum auction [lightreading.com]
• Pandemic adds new wrinkles and complexities to cable network capacity planning [lightreading.com]
• Verizon Reports Strong Start to the Year, Despite 178K Phone Net Losses [webpronews.com]
• Could Starlink be a victim of its own success? [totaltele.com]
• AT&T Considering Sale Of Rooster Teeth, Creator Of Red Vs. Blue And RWBY [gamespot.com]
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• Senate Republicans propose $65B for broadband [lightreading.com]
• Comcast Full Duplex DOCSIS trial pumps out 4-Gig symmetrical speedst [lightreading.com]
• AT&T Scores on Wireless Growth and HBO Max [webpronews.com]
• 620,000 Reasons DirecTV and AT&T Pay TV Is Dying (Think Lost Customers) [nationalinterest.org]
• Verizon grows revenue but loses wireless customers, continues to ‘execute on all 5G opportunities’ [rcrwireless.com]
• T-Mobile paid John Legere $137 million during his last three months as CEO [phonearena.com]
• Sony confirms it is testing PlayStation Plus Video Pass, which lets PS Plus subscribers access over 20 movie and TV shows from Sony Pictures [videogameschronicle.com]
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• It Will Take a Lot More Than Money to Get Internet to Every American [slate.com]
• Rogers Bets on Work-From-Home Helping Broadband Post Virus [bnnbloomberg.ca]
• Fiber Lit Building Pace Slows During Pandemic, Expected to Pick up in 2021 [telecompetitor.com]
• U.S. Vs. Europe Broadband Report: U.S. Ahead on Many Levels [telecompetitor.com]
• Rogers blames Ericsson software upgrade for wireless outage [lightreading.com]
• Verizon broadband gains continue to outpace video losses [lightreading.com]
• DOJ forms taskforce to combat the proliferation of ransomware attacks, targeting the entire ecosystem with prosecutions and more [thehill.com]
• Xbox owners can now access free-to-play games without an online subscription [digitaltrends.com]
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• REvil ransomware gang claims to have breached Apple contractor Quanta Computer and is threatening to leak Apple product schematics unless a ransom is paid [therecord.media]
• T-Mobile Home Internet review: Putting 5G to good use [androidcentral.com]
• UK government announces first phase of Project Gigabit [neowin.net]
• Report Confirms Triple Play Has Lost its Luster, Double Play Bundle Has the Action [telecompetitor.com]
• Why Verizon is sweetening 5G Home with promotions, free devices [lightreading.com]
• Huawei is no longer in the top 5 of the smartphone market [slashgear.com]
• Progressive Groups Fight AT&T and T-Mobile’s New Texting Rules [theintercept.com]
• Discord Ends Buyout Talks With Microsoft, Will Go Public Instead [webpronews.com]
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• Amazon's Satellite Internet Service, Project Kuiper, Gets a Launch Partner [pcmag.com]
• Millions of web surfers are being targeted by a single malvertising group [arstechnica.com]
• Verizon C-Band Plans Detailed, Service to Be Known as 5G Ultra Wideband [telecompetitor.com]
• Discovery+: Analysts Optimistic Following Streaming Service’s U.S. Launch [indiewire.com]
• There's not much at stake in the Dish vs. T-Mobile fight [lightreading.com]
• Microsoft says xCloud game streaming service will launch on iOS and PC Tuesday as an invite-only beta via browsers, available to Game Pass Ultimate subscribers [theverge.com]
• Sony reverses course, keeps legacy PlayStation online stores open [arstechnica.com]
• WordPress may turn off Google’s FLoC initiative on nearly half the world’s websites [9to5google.com]
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• Elon Musk says Starlink should be 'fully mobile' by the end of 2021, allowing customers to use it at any address or in moving vehicles [businessinsider.com]
• T-Mobile, Verizon up their bids to be your next home broadband [usatoday.com]
• The best satellite internet providers of 2021 [cnet.com]
• Government Broadband Funding: Experts Discuss What’s on Tap [telecompetitor.com]
• LEO (Low Earth Orbiting) Satellite Broadband Forecast: Over 5 Million Subscribers by 2026 [telecompetitor.com]
• With pent-up demand, competitive intensity in wireless primed to detonate [lightreading.com]
• Canadian regulator CRTC takes 'smallest possible step' towards opening up wireless market to competition, say small players [vancouversun.com]
• FCC seeks more details from Verizon in TracFone deal [fiercewireless.com]
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• Frontier Gains Final Approval, Bankruptcy Exit Imminent [telecompetitor.com]
• T-Mobile and OnePlus beat AT&T and Apple to take the latest 4G LTE and 5G speed crowns in the US [phonearena.com]
• Elon Musk reveals when Starlink internet service will likely exit beta [digitaltrends.com]
• Shaw's wireless biz waxes as wireline wanes [lightreading.com]
• Striking Charter workers build ISP where “profits are returned to users” [arstechnica.com]
• Comcast gets aggressive with unlimited mobile 5G pricing [lightreading.com]
• Washington State Votes To Kill Law That Restricted Community Broadband [techdirt.com]
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• New York Mandates $15 Low-Income Broadband Service [telecompetitor.com]
• RootMetrics 5G report puts AT&T in first place [lightreading.com]
• Canada is considering a proposal that would allow internet providers to block piracy websites [vancouversun.com]
• Congress, Don’t Let ISP Lobbyists Sabotage Fiber for All [eff.org]
• AT&T/Verizon workers’ union urges states to regulate ISPs as utilities [arstechnica.com]
• Biden's broadband bill could torpedo a DirecTV-Dish combo [lightreading.com]
• SF-based Astranis raises funds for a 'new approach' to satellite internet, will launch first commercial broadband satellite with SpaceX [cnbc.com]
• AT&T Values Its Digital Divide Initiatives at $2 Billion Over 3 Years [telecompetitor.com]
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• California: Demand Broadband for All [eff.org]
• Comments from Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile suggest they have killed their joint Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative, which aimed to establish RCS interoperability [lightreading.com]
• DNS Vulnerabilities Expose Millions of Internet-Connected Devices to Attack [darkreading.com]
• Victory for municipal broadband as Wash. state lawmakers end restrictions [arstechnica.com]
• In its April batch of patches, Microsoft fixes 108 flaws, including 19 “critical” flaws, five 0-days, and four NSA-discovered critical Exchange flaws [bleepingcomputer.com]
• Researcher told Valve about a bug in its graphics engine in 2019 that could let hackers take over players' PCs via Steam invite; bug remains in some Valve games [vice.com]
• Google Play Movies & TV App Ending Roku and Smart TV Support [webpronews.com]
• What's the best unlimited data plan in the U.S. right now? [androidcentral.com]
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• Charter must pay $19 million for tricking customers into switching ISPs [arstechnica.com]
• FCC: Please use our speed test app [lightreading.com]
• Is broadband infrastructure? Republicans used to think so [rollcall.com]
• Dish, T-Mobile Spar Over CDMA Sunset at FCC [telecompetitor.com]
• Verizon kicks off C-band spending splurge [lightreading.com]
• Biden's broadband plan ends era of 'hands-off' regulation [lightreading.com]
• Biden administration announces the nominations of ex-NSA deputy director Chris Inglis as first national cyber director and Jen Easterly as CISA head [washingtonpost.com]
• Google to shut down Play Movies and TV app for Roku, Samsung, LG, and Vizio on June 15, will push users to use YouTube instead [9to5google.com]
• Average US Internet User Is Locked Out of 10 Accounts Per Month [pcmag.com]
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