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A morning hat tip to uid://843138, who directs our attention to this interesting bit of analysis, where a blogger crunches the numbers on Netflix’s successful broadband streaming video model. With the average encoding rate for video streamed to the XBOX 360 around 2000Kbps, one person watching a two hour movie would transfer around 1.8GB of [...]

Global mobile broadband subscribers up 84% to 186m crowdedbrain.co.uk FCC’s Adelstein named for US rural broadband job reuters.com BT Reveals First Fiber Optic Broadband Rollout Plans ispreview.co.uk US Supreme Court to hear double jeopardy theory in arguments over Enron executive’s case orlandosentinel.com UK Operators reject regulators mobile proposals; say they would damage competition ft.com German [...]

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Anti-pornography activists, led by SCO Group chairman Ralph Yarro III, have been busy over the last few years trying to purge the ‘net of smut. Dubbed CP80, the group has pushed a number of bad ideas, such as assigning certain ports just to porn, so it could supposedly be more easily filtered. Yarro and his [...]

If you recall, when the 3G iPhone first dropped, AT&T hinted that they’d be offering unsubsidized iPhones (iPhones with no long-term contract but at a higher price) albeit at a steep premium. According to the Boy Genius Report, the unsubsidized phones are finally here; 9 for the 8GB and 9 for the 16GB. One catch [...]

While users by and large love Verizon FiOS, they don’t always love Verizon FiOS billing — with users routinely being over-billed or billed for services never ordered, and correcting these errors often quite difficult. In New Jersey, the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs has sued Verizon for allegedly using “deceptive and misleading” marketing practices. [...]

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Like Comcast here in the States, we’ve explored how UK cable broadband operator Virgin Media is deploying DOCSIS 3.0 technology, offering a 50Mbps/2Mbps tier for 51 pounds (.73) per month on a standalone basis, or 35 pounds a month when taken with an 11 pound phone line. Apparently, hackers in the UK have taken advantage [...]

As we recently noted, Charter Communications plans to file for bankruptcy on April 1, as part of a restructuring effort that will reduce their billion debt load by billion. According to Reuters, the majority of the company will be owned by private equity firm Apollo Group, who is purchasing Charter’s debt. Meanwhile, Light Reading notes [...]

The National Center for Health Statistics offers some interesting data by state on users who are ditching landlines and going cell only. According to the data, which is collected to ensure accuracy in health-related polling via landline, Oklahoma tops the country — with 26.2 percent of households only having a cell phone. The least cell-only [...]

Two members of Congress on Tuesday re-introduced a bill that would prevent states and local jurisdictions from imposing new taxes on cell phone service, according to PC Magazine. “By curtailing further increases on wireless taxes and fees, we hope to encourage additional consumer driven development in wireless technology,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat and [...]

Deep Packet Inspection: The End of the Internet as We Know It? freepress.net Comcast Easily Top Op In Top 40 Markets multichannel.com Why Are Australia’s Would-Be ‘Net Censors So Opposed To Transparency? techdirt.com Prepaid Wireless Takes Off businessweek.com File Sharing, Damages And The Constitution… techdirt.com Sky calls for access to cable network; Virgin Media monopoly [...]