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It appears that AT&T will be lowering their pricing for unlimited data and text messaging. To match Verizon Wireless, AT&T will be reducing the price of their unlimited text and data plan from to , according to Engadget. Note this doesn’t apply to Blackberry or iPhone users, who will still pay more (but usually use [...]

Several customers of independent VoIP carrier Packet 8 were concerned the carrier had “pulled a Sunrocket” when the company’s website went down yesterday, along with their entire VoIP network. According to posts in our forums, the problem was DNS related. “Registry.com messed up all our entries wiping out the DNS configuration pointing to Packet8/8×8 when [...]

The other day we discussed how Verizon was finally getting ready to launch the Verizon Hub, a device that integrates home landline and wireless cell functionality. We noted that to avoid being just another failed attempt to make landlines interesting (like the AT&T Home Manager and Embarq eGo systems), it needed to at least support [...]

Forbes has published its annual list of the “most wired” cities in America, the report giving Seattle the honors; surprising given that Qwest (whose next generation deployment plans are the least aggressive of all baby bells) is the city’s incumbent operator. Apparently helping Seattle nudge Atlanta out of the top spot was the number of [...]

The Senate is getting closer to approving a new bill that would delay next month’s planned transition from analog to digital TV nearly four months — to June 12. While Senate Republicans last week were blocking Democrat delay attempts, the Associated Press reports that a bi-partisan agreement has been reached setting the stage for an [...]

FCC Democrat Michael Copps Named Acting FCC Chairman multichannel.com Seattle now America’s most wired city; Atlants drops to #2 followed by Washington DC, Orlando, and Boston forbes.com U.S. 3G broadband comparison crowns a surprise winner Sprint zdnet.com Italian ISP fined 60,000 for throttling its P2P users without telling them theinquirer.net ViaSat’s global Ku-band connectivity plan [...]

As we noted the other day, billion of the 5 Obama infrastructure investment bill will be going to broadband, primarily to existing loan organizations who focus on wiring the most rural areas. But buried in the language of the bill is a provision requiring any government subsidized networks adhere to “open access” conditions the term [...]

Saul Hansell of the New York Times today editorializes that the nation doesn’t really need a significant national broadband policy, because broadband coverage gaps are “hooey.” Hansell, who we talked to personally for a piece largely lambasting FiOS upgrades last August, says significant investment in national infrastructure isn’t really necessary. Why? DOCSIS 3.0 will very [...]

Joel Tenenbaum is a Boston University graduate student, who faces up to million in penalties for uploading seven songs from a file-sharing network back in 2005. The RIAA objected to today’s scheduled webcasting of the Tenenbaum case’s pretrial arguments. Why? According to Wired, the RIAA is concerned that “tech-savvy individuals” could remix or manipulate the [...]