Getty Images | traffic_analyzer reader comments 49 with Internet service providers and their lobby groups are fighting a US plan to prohibit discrimination in access to broadband services. In particular, ISPs want the Federal Communications Commission to drop the plan’s proposal to require that prices charged to consumers be non-discriminatory. In 2021, Congress required the ..
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reader comments 118 with AT&T’s legacy telephone network may have nearly 200,000 miles of lead-covered cables, according to an estimate by AT&T submitted in a court filing. “Based on its records, AT&T estimates that lead-clad cables represent less than 10 percent of its copper footprint of roughly two million sheath miles of cable, the overwhelming ..
Getty Images | Eugene Mymrin reader comments 111 with AT&T’s stock price hit a 29-year low on Friday and continued to sink today as investors fled telecom stocks on reports that cleanups of lead-covered telephone cables could cost the industry tens of billions of dollars. AT&T stock dropped 4.1 percent to $14.50 on Friday, reportedly ..
Enlarge / AT&T’s stand at Mobile World Congress on February 27, 2023, in Barcelona, Spain. Getty Images | Joan Cros Garcia-Corbis reader comments 67 with Newly raised concerns about lead-covered telephone cables installed across the US many decades ago are putting pressure on companies like AT&T and Verizon to identify the locations of all the ..
Enlarge / A flag on the fifth green during the first round of the AT&T Byron Nelson golf tournament at TPC Craig Ranch on May 11, 2023, in McKinney, Texas. Getty Images | Mike Mulholland reader comments 47 with AT&T and other entities are trying to block the SpaceX/T-Mobile plan to provide Starlink satellite service ..
reader comments 54 with Share this story Today, the Federal Communications Commission proposed rules to implement the Safe Connections Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law last December. Advocates consider the law a landmark move to stop tech abuse. Under the law, mobile service providers are required to help survivors of domestic abuse and ..
Enlarge / Fiber conduits being installed for Los Altos Hills Community Fiber. Los Altos Hills Community Fiber reader comments 43 with 30 posters participating Share this story Sasha Zbrozek lives in Los Altos Hills, California, which he describes as “a wealthy Silicon Valley town,” in a house about five miles from Google’s headquarters. But after ..
Enlarge / AT&T’s logo at its corporate headquarters in Dallas, Texas. Getty Images | Ronald Martinez reader comments 65 with 55 posters participating Share this story AT&T agreed to pay a $23 million fine “to resolve a federal criminal investigation into alleged misconduct involving the company’s efforts to unlawfully influence former Illinois Speaker of the ..
Enlarge / You can buy a number of 5G phones in an AT&T store, but only a handful of them will make use of the carrier’s most reliable frequencies. reader comments 74 with 56 posters participating Share this story Update: An AT&T spokesperson said in response to this story that “only 2022 and newer devices can ..
Enlarge / Dan Ball, host of One America News show Real America. reader comments 217 with 146 posters participating Share this story One America News might have to shut down because of DirecTV’s decision to drop the right-wing network from its channel lineup, OAN said in a lawsuit against DirecTV and its owner AT&T. DirecTV ..