• 'Major carrier' said to be considering acquiring MVNO FreedomPop [fiercewireless.com]
• 65 Groups Urge the FCC to Reject the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger [marketwatch.com]
• Comcast touts diversity, blows off broadband issue as 64,000 comment on Time Warner Cable merger [gigaom.com]
• Which cities may get a gig (and why broadband competition matters) [gigaom.com]
• Calif. governor signs smartphone 'kill switch' bill into law [cnet.com]
• NSA providing records of 850B calls, locations, emails, and internet chats to 23 US agencies with a Google-like ICREACH search engine [firstlook.org]
• TDS to light up 1 Gbps, IPTV service in Waterford, Wis. [fiercetelecom.com]
• 5G Hype: A worthless term before the next generation of wireless communications technology is even defined? [lightreading.com]
• Sony says no customer information was taken in online attack [washingtonpost.com]