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  • NewsClips - July 29, 2010
    Even though cable-TV operators have worked to address complaints, customer-satisfaction surveys consistently show they aren't held in high regard, while fiber-optic and satellite-video providers rate better among consumers. Industry experts say one reason cable customers express more discontent is that cable companies have simply been around longer. Still, cable companies say they're exploring ways to improve services.
    Posted: Jul 29, 2010
  • NewsClips - July 28, 2010
    Top Democrats on the Senate Commerce Committee signaled Tuesday that they’re eyeing sweeping new rules to regulate online privacy — even as top tech players like Apple, AT&T, Google and Facebook cautioned them to tread carefully. The tech companies told senators at a hearing Tuesday that they’ve worked hard to address privacy concerns, but Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) vowed that legislation will be coming next year anyway.
    Posted: Jul 28, 2010
  • NewsClips - July 27, 2010
    Andrew McLaughlin built Google's public-policy operation and helped craft its government lobbying strategy. Now he works for the White House on Internet policy and that has some Google rivals crying foul as federal officials prepare to rewrite the rules governing high-speed Internet.
    Posted: Jul 27, 2010
  • NewsClips - July 26, 2010
    Verizon Communications may want to tweak the ad slogan for its TV and ultrafast Internet service to "This is FIOS. This is pretty small." Not catchy, but it would be more accurate than the current "This is Big" line. Verizon reported Friday that second-quarter net additions for FiOS TV were 174,000, compared with 300,000 a year earlier.
    Posted: Jul 26, 2010
  • NewsClips - July 23, 2010
    At some point soon, Apple needs to anoint another U.S. wireless carrier. Should it opt to make the iPhone available to market leader Verizon Wireless or the industry laggard, T-Mobile USA? It isn't a straightforward choice. Yes, with only about 34 million subscribers, T-Mobile is much smaller than Verizon, which boasts 93 million. But Verizon uses
    Posted: Jul 23, 2010
  • NewsClips - July 22, 2010
    Sen. Bob Casey has urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to back down from a proposal that many see as a regulatory power grab, telling commission chairman Julius Genachowski to find a “more targeted” answer to uncertainty over the agency's authority. In a June 15 letter obtained by The Hill, Casey staked out his opposition to an FCC regulatory maneuver known as “reclassification” and urged Genachowski to...
    Posted: Jul 22, 2010
  • NewsClips - July 21, 2010
    The days of worry-free, single-fee Internet access likely will end soon following AT&T Wireless' controversial decision last month to put pricing caps on broadband use for new smartphone customers, research firm iSuppli says this morning. And that, the company says, poses "grave implications" for Web video services such as Hulu and Netflix. They won't be able to challenge traditional broadcast and cable TV providers unless...
    Posted: Jul 21, 2010
  • NewsClips - July 20, 2010
    Americans are turning away from home phone lines and toward mobile, but a federal program continues to pour $8 billion a year into phone service for rural homes and businesses. Last year in Chelan, Wash., for instance, the fund paid an average of $17,763 each for 17 residents to get phone lines. But as the nation looks to wireless and fiber broadband networks as its on-ramp to e-mail, tweets and Skype calls, lawmakers and regulators have called for...
    Posted: Jul 20, 2010
  • NewsClips - July 19, 2010
    Wall Street Journal technology columnist Walt Mossberg is glad the federal government is finally creating a national broadband plan but wishes it were more aggressive about broadband speed and less vague about the details. "I think it's interesting that we as a country are only now stumbling around trying to...
    Posted: Jul 19, 2010
  • NewsClips - July 16, 2010
    In a rare commentary from the states on broadband reclassification, Ohio said it supports a "third way" proposal by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to clarify the rules around broadband services after an appeals court decision thrust the previous regulatory framework into question in April. "The Ohio commission favors the FCC adopting a 'light touch' or minimal oversight approach regarding the reclassification of broadband services as a telecommunications service,"
    Posted: Jul 16, 2010