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Perhaps there is a god — AT&T Fined $100 Million

AT&T, the mobile phone carrier with a logo that — unapologetically and appropriately — looks like the Death Star, was fined $100 million for throttling its customers with unlimited data without properly notifying them. The unlimited data tier is a thing of the past and was announced in 2007 when Steve Jobs  unveiled the original iPhone. AT&T’s network was not up early adopters actually using … Continue reading Perhaps there is a god — AT&T Fined $100 Million

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PayPal’s New TOS May be Drawing Government Scrutiny

PayPal, the online payment provider you love to hate, recently drew the ire of consumers and consumer groups with new language added to its terms of service. The new TOS would allow PayPal to contact users for polls and “offers and promotions” — telemarketing calls, in short. The company would be able to use the phone numbers it has on file as well as phone numbers … Continue reading PayPal’s New TOS May be Drawing Government Scrutiny

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Game of Cable: Comcast/Time Warner Deal in Doubt, May Result in Industry Freak-Out

Lawyers in the Department of Justice’s antitrust division will reportedly recommend the agency block Comcast’s merger with Time Warner Cable and could make their determination public next week. Concerns that the cable and high speed internet juggernaut would, ultimately, have a negative impact on consumers is what’s driving the report — specifically,the control the combined companies will have over broadband internet, exclusive cable deals it could enter … Continue reading Game of Cable: Comcast/Time Warner Deal in Doubt, May Result in Industry Freak-Out

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AT&T, Verizon and Texas ISP Fire First Legal Shots Against Net Neutrality

To no one’s surprise, the FCC’s net neutrality rules are coming under legal fire by the telecom industry. A pair of lawsuits, filed by USTelecom — a broadband “association” led by Verizon and AT&T (again, like the Radiohead song, no surprises) — and Texas-based Alamo Broadband, are contesting the agency’s rules which have not yet been implemented, but USTelecom and Alamo Broadband filed their petitions, just … Continue reading AT&T, Verizon and Texas ISP Fire First Legal Shots Against Net Neutrality

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AT&T: Your world. Throttled.
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AT&T Won’t Stop Throttling Your iPhone’s Unlimited Data Plan

Smartphone users who believed that the FCC’s recent love of net neutrality meant that AT&T  would stop throttling their devices with “unlimited” plans when they hit 5GB are finding that the situation is complicated, to say the least. When AT&T customers with unlimited plans hit 5GB of usage, the company reduces their speed to a crawl. Some sources have claimed to see speeds on par … Continue reading AT&T Won’t Stop Throttling Your iPhone’s Unlimited Data Plan

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