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Same old control-freak Apple: they ll be gatekeeper for third-party iPhone apps ZDNet Blogs Civil rights groups: FCC should allow network management InfoWorld.com Vonage spent $1.4 million to lobby federal government on telecomms competition and consumer issues AP Cable s wireless future [...]

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The FCC today made it official: if you’re a cable operator you cannot own more than 30% of the paid-TV market. Comcast currently sits at around 27%, which is why, as you’d expect, they’re not too keen on the new guidelines. Though the FCC voted to cap cable ownership last December, it was only today [...]

Former FCC boss Reed Hundt talks to Telephony Online about the FCC’s 700Mhz auction, expanding the USF to cover broadband deployment, the controversy over baby bell wiretap immunity, and other industry topics. Hundt, who is pushing (so far unsuccessfully) for a national emergency broadband network at the behest of Frontline Wireless, takes a shot at [...]

Last Summer, Comcast started charging customers in many markets an additional $1.99 fee if they wanted to pay their bill at the local Comcast office. Last January, they started charging users $4 if they wanted to speak to a live human being on the phone to pay their bill. Now, the Consumerist claims they’ve found [...]

Sprint’s announcement yesterday that they’re offering a $100 unlimited voice/SMS/MMS tier couldn’t overshadow the fact that their merger with Nextel has been, to quote the Wall Street Journal, a “deal from hell.”
Think just of the lost stock value: each side had a market capitalization near $33 billion when they first agreed to merge; now the [...]

Comcast is leading the charge in DOCSIS 3.0 deployment, saying they’ll have 20% of their footprint wired by the end of this year. Most other providers, however, seem fairly content to take a wait-and-see attitude on the technology (particularly if FiOS has seen limited deployment in their territory). While many Charter customers are still waiting [...]

Though the company just received the regulatory approval it needs to sell its DSL lines in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, Verizon apparently wants to keep the more profitable (and less rural) Massachusetts. The telco has announcing they’ll be investing $200 million in the State to extend their DSL and FiOS networks to an additional [...]

RIAA penalty charges don’t make it to the artists The Inquirer New York City Broadband Advisory Committee looks to bring high speed public Internet access Queens Chronicle Broadband big boys waiting on data pimping The Register Broadband Dominates 90% of UK Internet Connections [...]