Rural telecom and broadband providers in the U.S. face big challenges in connecting their most remote customers, as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission transitions away from old telephone subsidies, a group of providers told ...
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Google will pay $7 million to settle complaints from dozens of U.S. states about its unauthorized collection of personal data transmitted over Wi-Fi networks. The money will be paid to 37 states and the District of Columbia, which had ...
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Google will pay US$7 million to settle complaints from dozens of U.S. states about its unauthorised collection of personal data transmitted over Wi-Fi networks. The money will be paid to 37 states and the District of Columbia, which had ...
Tags: Google, U.S.states, Wi-Fi networks
Some of the smallest mobile operators in the U.S. have lined up behind a deal that would dramatically expand the country's fourth-largest carrier, a twist that has everything to do with the national dominance of AT&T and Verizon Wireless. ...
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Mobile carriers should deploy a number of safeguards to protect their customers against a growing problem of unauthorized billing through mobile payments, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said in a report released Friday. The FTC report ...
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A January change to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) makes it illegal for you to unlock your smart phone without your carrier's permission. That is, if your phone is tethered to Carrier A, you can't "unlock" it on your own so ...
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The Federal Communications Commission remains focused on rapidly expanding spectrum for licensed and unlicensed use, and encouraging both research and products that will let it be used more efficiently, according to the commission's boss. ...
T-Mobile USA is drawing closer to finishing its merger with MetroPCS Wireless as a deadline for action by the U.S. Department of Justice passed on Tuesday. T-Mobile agreed last October to merge with the smaller MetroPCS, forming a larger ...
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A U.S. senator has proposed a bill that will allow consumers to unlock cellphones for use in other networks, after the administration of President Barack Obama backed over 114,000 petitioners who asked the government to legalize the ...
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U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has sided with more than 100,000 petition signers who asked the government to legalize the unlocking of smartphones. The White House on Monday agreed with petitioners who asked the Library of ...
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has begun a test run of a Google database of unused spectrum in the television bands that's available for wireless broadband. The FCC on Monday kicked off a 45-day trial of Google's so-called ...
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The White House says it agrees with a US citizen petition arguing that "jailbreaking" of mobile phones to allow users to switch carriers should be legal. In a statement released on the White House petitions web page, presidential aide R. ...
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has taken the first step toward an expansion of the spectrum available for Wi-Fi, with the agency launching a rulemaking proceeding to open new parts of the 5GHz spectrum to unlicensed uses. The ...
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French EU privacy regulator CNIL is to take action against Google this summer, according to a statement the body has released on its website. CNIL's statement explains how after several months of investigation, European data protection ...
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U.S. broadband providers deliver nearly the residential broadband speeds they advertise, with a handful of large providers exceeding the promised service, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said in a new report. On average, U.S. ...