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When it came to consumer issues like broadband, network neutrality or user privacy, the FTC in recent years has spent most of its time nodding dumbly at industry, allowing carriers, content and ad companies to “self-regulate” (code for do as little as possible, but put on a good show). Today Obama appointed current Democratic FTC [...]

The past few years have seen a ridiculous flood of stories about customers who didn’t read the fine print on their wireless 3G broadband contracts, and were hammered by wireless data bills that almost require second mortgages. The Chicago Tribune has the latest tale of a man who decided to watch a “Slingboxed” Chicago Bears [...]

Despite the fact they’re planning to file for bankruptcy protection shortly, Charter Communications seems to be even busier than normal. Users in our Charter forum note that the company is continuing their staggered deployment of faster 20Mbps tiers — customers saying the faster speeds are now available in most markets. There’s still no word on [...]

Qwest last week claimed that it would cost them billion to get 7 Mbps broadband service available to 95% percent of its current footprint — assuming taxpayers are willing to foot the bill. That’s of course first-generation DSL, providing even deployment of their 12Mbps & 20Mbps ADSL2+ service would cost substantially more. Qwest has been [...]

Comcast has been offering more details of an online video effort that was unveiled late last week. According to the cable company, the broadband TV service, dubbed “OnDemand Online,” will count against your monthly 250GB bandwidth cap, which will keep the network neutrality brigades from criticizing the carrier. The service, which will launch later this [...]

DSL provider CenturyTel (see our user reviews), who last year acquired Sprint spinoff Embarq in an .8 billion dollar deal, says they’ll be using LTE technology instead of DSL to deliver broadband service to some rural customers. The first deployments will occur sometime next year in limited areas, according to CenturyTel CEO Glen Post. “It [...]