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According to the Chicago Sun Times, Chicago’s Mayor is planning to raise the city’s amusement tax from 8 percent to 9 percent. That hike includes a proposal to broaden the amusement tax umbrella to include “direct-to-home satellite service.” The city hopes to shore up a 9 million budget gap by forcing the tax (which cable [...]

In August of 2007, Earthlink, failing to make muni-fi work as an incumbent end-around, gave Houston million for missing build deadlines. Earthlink ultimately walked away from citywide Wi-Fi entirely, but Houston used their money to deploy downtown Wi-Fi themselves. That network went live one year later, providing Houston residents with free service last August. [...]

Verizon this week struck a new multi-year deal with Major League Baseball, the agreement bringing the MLB Network and the league’s Extra Innings out-of-market package to all FiOS TV customers. According to the company’s press release, MLB Network will be available to all Verizon FiOS TV customers as part of the Essentials and Extreme HD [...]

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As AT&T and Verizon attempt to try and lure customers away from cable operators, they’ve focused on matching features instead of trying to undercut cable prices. While they occasionally offer some tasty bundle promotions, they’ve largely refused to engage in price warfare, and in fact have increased TV prices several times since entering the market. [...]

Over the last few years, Australian lawmakers have been enamored with the idea of Internet filters, spending almost a hundred million on filtering technology that a teenager was able to circumnavigate in just a few minutes. When Internet filters were voluntary and made available for download, the numbers showed that nobody used them. Undeterred, the [...]