Communications Stories

Net Neutrality is About To Make a Comeback 37
Insufficient Redundancy? Light-Pole Installation Cut Fiber Line, Triggered Three-State 911 Outage 90
Northrop Grumman Working With SpaceX On US Spy Satellite System 10
Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems After Cyberattack 6
Nigeria To Criminalise Fiber Cable Damage Costing Telecoms Billions 19
Telecom Fights Price Caps as US Spends Billions on Internet Access 30
Consumers Will Finally See FCC-Mandated 'Nutrition Labels' For Most Broadband Plans 56
NASA Figured Out Why Its Voyager 1 Probe Has Been Glitching for Months 58
Feds Finally Decide To Do Something About Years-Old SS7 Spy Holes In Phone Networks 32
Cable Lobby Vows 'Years of Litigation' To Avoid Bans on Blocking and Throttling 91
Landlines Are Dying Out 142
Astronomers Demand Radio Silence at the Moon's Far Side, But Resistance May Be Futile 18
Cable ISP Fined $10,000 For Lying To FCC About Where It Offers Broadband 42
Google is Bringing Satellite Messaging To Android 15 14
Cable And Satellite Providers Required To Disclose 'All In' Pricing Under Newly Passed FCC Rules 67
FCC Scraps Old Speed Benchmark, Says Broadband Should Be at Least 100Mbps 103
SpaceX Gets E-Band Radio Waves To Boost Starlink Broadband 26
To Replace HexChat, Linux Mint is Building a New Desktop Chat App Called 'Jargonaut' 40
America's Last Morse-Code Station 113
6G Principles Endorsed By US and International Partners 19
AT&T Restores Service After Massive, Nationwide Outage 55
FCC Commissioner Wants To Investigate Apple Over Beeper Mini Shutdown 63
The US Government Makes a $42 Million Bet On Open Cell Networks 26
Canada Moves To Ban the Flipper Zero Over Car Hacking Fears 63
Thieves Steal 200ft Tower From Alabama Radio Station 142
FCC Votes To Outlaw Scam Robocalls That Use AI-Generated Voices 61
Starlink's Laser System Is Beaming 42 Million GB of Data Per Day 97
T-Mobile Says It May Slow Home Internet Speeds of Some Users in Times of 'Congestion' 72
Google and AT&T Invest In AST SpaceMobile For Satellite-To-Smartphone Service 18
Viasat Tries To Stop Citizen Effort To Revive FCC Funding for Starlink 78
Verizon To Keep Charging Controversial Fee Despite $100 Million Settlement 35
SpaceX Sends First Text Messages Using Starlink Satellites 14
SpaceX Has Launched Starlink's First Direct-to-Smartphone Satellites 13
Starlink Launches First 'Cellphone Towers In Space' For Use with LTE Phones 38
Wickr Is Dead 29
That Chinese Spy Balloon Used an American ISP to Communicate, Say US Officials 74
Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry's New Priority: Stability 45
Beeper's iMessage Connection Software Open Sourced. What Happens Next? 85
UK Officials Caught Napping Ahead of 2G and 3G Doomsday 61
Biggest Solar Flare In Years Temporarily Disrupts Radio Signals On Earth 28
NASA's Voyager 1 Probe In Interstellar Space Can't Phone Home 34
FCC Floats Ban on Cable TV 'Junk Fees' That Make It Hard To Ditch Contracts 32
Amazon's Internet Satellites Will Use Space Lasers To Transmit Data 56
UK Class-Action Targets Mobile Phone Operators With $4.15 Billion Damages Claim 11
The Race To 5G is Over - Now It's Time To Pay the Bill 84
Cable Lobby To FCC: Please Don't Look Too Closely at the Prices We Charge 26
Charter To Reduce Mobile Video Streaming Resolution for Some Customers 35
Optus CEO Resigns After Nationwide Outage Left Millions Without Mobile and Internet Services 37
US Space Force Monitors Satellites in the 'Robotic Battlefield' of Space 15
FCC Can Now Punish Telecom Providers For Charging Customers More For Less 75
Airbus Introduces 'Detumbler' Device To Address Satellite Tumbling In Low Earth Orbit 23
US Pledges Work Toward More Airwaves for Wireless Providers Facing Surging 5G Demand 57
Qualcomm-Iridium Deal To Bring Satellite Connectivity To Phones Collapses 35
Internet Providers Say the FCC Should Not Investigate Broadband Prices 64
WhatsApp Now Lets You Hide Your IP Address During Calls 17
After Big Drop in ISP Competition, Canada Mandates Fiber-Network Sharing 28
NASA's First Two-Way End-to-End Laser Communications System 14
FCC Greenlights Superfast Wi-Fi Tethering for AR and VR Headsets 5
CBC Stops Broadcasting Official Time Signal 70
New Starlink Webpage Highlights Upcoming 'Direct To Cell' Service 21
FTC Lays Out New Rule That Could End Hidden Fees 90
Finnish President Says Undersea Gas and Telecom Cables Damaged By 'External Activity' 88
Net Neutrality's Court Fate Depends on Whether Broadband is 'Telecommunications' 84
Amazon Launches First Satellites for Kuiper Space Internet System 38
Biden Administration Backs Strong Rules To Close Digital Divide 82
A New Satellite Outshines Some of the Brightest Stars in the Sky 41
An Emergency Alert Test Will Sound On All US Cellphones, TVs and Radios On Wednesday 101
Dish Dealt First-Ever Space-Debris Fine For Misparking Satellite 63
Walmart To Roll Out New Prepaid Phone Service From Boost Founder 16
FCC To Reintroduce Rules Protecting Net Neutrality 80
US Exploring Potential Space Force Hotline With China 43
FCC Closing Loophole That Gave Robocallers Easy Access To US Phone Numbers 72
WhatsApp is Working on Cross-Platform Messaging 70
Telecom Companies in India Want Tech Firms To Pay For Network Usage 77
NASA Officials Sound Alarm Over Future of the Deep Space Network 49
FCC Says 'Too Bad' To ISPs Complaining That Listing Every Fee is Too Hard 102
NASA To Demonstrate Laser Communications From Space Station 40
T-Mobile To Cut About 7% of Staff 24
South Korea's Biggest Telco Says 5G Has Failed To Deliver On Its Promise 57
US Announces More New Funding for Rural Broadband Infrastructure 66
Australia's ISPs Will Stop Offering Free Email Addresses, to the Disgust of Older Customers 69
US Space Force Creates First Unit Dedicated To Targeting Adversary Satellites 57
China Launches First Geosynchronous Orbit Radar Satellite 38
FCC Prepares $75 Monthly Broadband Subsidies For 'High-Cost' Areas 41
Capella's Earth-Imaging Satellites Are Deorbiting Faster Than Expected 17
FCC Fines Robocaller a Record $300 Million After Blocking Billions of Their Scam Calls 64
Arrival of eSIM is Altering How Consumers Interact With Operators 106
FCC Chair: Speed Standard of 25Mbps Down, 3Mbps Up Isn't Good Enough Anymore 131
Google Urges Gmail Users to Enable 'Enhanced Safe Browsing' for Faster, More Proactive Protection 58
A Promising Internet Satellite Is Rendered Useless By Power Supply Issues 37
Google Messages To Support MLS Protocol For Interoperable E2E Encrypted Messaging 21
The Rise and Fall of Microsoft's Skype 93
Huawei Says Ready To Ship Entire 5.5G Networks - Whatever They Are - in 2024 26
White House Announces $40 Billion in Broadband Funding 125
Eight Teams of Hackers Will Compete To Breach U.S. Satellite In Space 9
An AT&T-Backed Cellular Satellite Company Sent a 4G LTE Signal From Space 11
Indonesia, SpaceX Launch Satellite To Boost Internet Connectivity 8
Dish Says It Met Its FCC Deadline To Cover 70 Percent of the US Population 13
FCC Chair To Investigate Exactly How Much Everyone Hates Data Caps 67
$930 Million in Grants Announced in Biden's Effort To Expand Internet Access 58
Comcast Complains To FCC That Listing All of Its Monthly Fees is Too Hard 109
Satellite Beams Solar Power Down To Earth, In First-of-a-Kind Demonstration 75
Amazon Is in Talks To Offer Free Mobile Service To US Prime Members 49
Japan To Launch Satellite Made of Wood In 2024 55
Pentagon Awards SpaceX With Ukraine Contract For Starlink Satellite Internet 40
50 US Senators Issued Satellite Phones 115
Portugal Effectively Bans Chinese Companies From 5G Network 13
SkyFi Lets You Order Up Fresh Satellite Imagery In Real Time With a Click 8
Ford Decides It Won't Kill AM Radio After All 152
Biden Names FCC Picks, Pushes for Democratic Majority at Deadlocked Agency 40
FCC Rejects Dish 5G Plan That Could Have Made Starlink Broadband 'Unusable' 29
Verizon's New Plans Make Sense To Nobody Except Verizon 32
Telcos Draw Up Proposal To Charge Big Tech for EU 5G Rollout 45
Nigeria Mobile Operators To Bar Text Service for Banks Over $259 Million Debt 3
As Wireless Carriers 'Rip and Replace' Chinese-Made Telecom Equipment, Who Pays? 82
Europe's Major Satellite Players Line Up To Build Starlink Competitor 91
Starlink Nixes Plan To Impose 1TB Data Cap and Per-Gigabyte Overage Fees 45
SpaceX, Rogers Strike Deal for Satellite Phone Service in Canada 17
5G Not Enough? Telecom Companies Look to 5.5G 64
AT&T Helps Complete the First 'Space-Based Voice Call' Using a Standard Smartphone 34
China Building Cyberweapons To Hijack Enemy Satellites, Says US Leak 38
US Begins Planning for 6G Wireless Communications 76
Defunct NASA Satellite Returns To Earth After 21 Years 12
Virginia Norwood, 'Mother' of Satellite Imaging Systems, Dies At 96 27
NASA Reveals What Made an Entire Starlink Satellite Fleet Go Down 47
How Much Data Did the Chinese Spy Balloon Collect? 50
Lockheed Martin Is Building a Moon-To-Earth Satellite Communications Network 31
The New US-China Proxy War Over Undersea Internet Cables 43
Starlink Rival OneWeb Poised for Global Coverage After Weekend Launch 40
Biden Broadband Plan Runs Headlong Into 'Buy American' Mandate 89
'Click-to-Cancel' Rule Would Penalize Companies That Make You Cancel By Phone 101
FCC Fines 15 Year-Old Pirate Radio Station In NYC $2 Million 68
FCC Proposes Satellite-to-Phone Rules To Eliminate 'No Signal' Once and For All 43
Amazon Reveals Its Project Kuiper Satellite Internet Dishes, Targets 2024 Launch 41
SpaceX Is Getting Ready To Test Its Starlink Satellite-To-Cellphone Service 29
Qualcomm Wants To Replace eSIMs With iSIMs, Has the First Certified SoC 64
SpaceX Unveils 'V2 Mini' Starlink Satellites With Quadruple the Capacity 89
Mobile Giants Announce United Interface to Lure Cloud Developers 15
EU Eyes Big Tech as it Seeks Feedback on Who Should Pay Network Costs 56
Samsung Readying Its Own Smartphone-to-Satellite Communication Platform 30
Biden FCC Nominee Slams Critics, Says ISPs Shouldn't Get To Choose Regulators 64
China Pulls Back From Global Subsea Cable Project as US Tensions Mount 22
FCC Approves Amazon's Satellite Broadband Plan Over SpaceX's Objections 44
China's Balloon Was Capable of Spying on Communications, US Says 152
Comcast Gave False Map Data To FCC 82
ISP Admits Lying To FCC About Size of Network To Block Funding To Rivals 88
EU Weighs Proposal To Charge Data-Heavy Streamers for Telecom Upgrades 62
FCC Nomination Stalled for One Year, Preventing Restoration of US Net Neutrality 85
Telecom Giants Head To Court To Kill NY State's Demand They Give Poor People $15 Broadband 65
Russian Strikes Sap Ukraine Mobile Network of Vital Power 139
US Sets 2024 Deadline For 5G Signal Safeguards On Aircraft 49
Qualcomm's Going Toe-To-Toe With Apple's Satellite Messaging Feature 20
Verizon Warns Its Last 3G Customers to Upgrade Before Losing Service 101
Spam Texts Are Out of Control, Say All 51 Attorneys General 37
Russian Arms Manufacturer Developing Tech To Hunt Starlink Dishes 129
Apple Satellite Plans May Extend Beyond Emergencies, Suggests New Patent 28
Microsoft Targets Internet Expansion in Africa, Longer-Term Cloud Adoption 8
Meta Kills Facebook Connectivity After Nearly a Decade 10
After US Sanctions, Huawei Seeks New Revenue By Licensing Its 5G Patents to Rival 15
FCC Orders Telecoms To Block Scammers Targeting Student Loan Forgiveness Seekers 20
NASA'S ICON Space Weather Satellite Has Suddenly Gone Silent 29
Pacific Island Nation of Vanuatu Has Been Knocked Offline For More Than a Month 27
SpaceX Unveils 'Starshield,' a Military Variation of Starlink Satellites 83
Senator Urges Automakers to Keep Making Cars with AM Radio 320
Astronomers Say a New, Huge Satellite Is As Bright As the Brightest Stars 83
iPhone 14 Satellite Feature Saves Stranded Man In Alaska 49
More Than 1 Billion People Expected To Be Using 5G By Year's End 55
'How Washington Chased Huawei Out of Europe' 102
The US Bans Huawei, ZTE Telecommunications Equipment Sales Over Chinese Spying Fears 74
Trump Posted Classified Satellite Imagery On Twitter As President 342
LF Europe's Project Sylva Wants To Create an Open Source Telco Cloud Stack 7
Apple Launches Emergency SOS via Satellite in US and Canada 41
Vonage Will Pay $100 Million to Settle FTC Allegations of Trapping Consumers in Subscriptions 23
T-Mobile Will Start Charging a $35 Fee on All New Activations and Upgrades 59
Amazon May Turn To Its SpaceX Rival For Satellite Launches 34
FAA Warns of Aviation Safety Risks Without US Mandate On 5G Limits 52
Pressuring Apple to Fix Texting, Google's Android Will Force iPhone Users to Read Descriptions of Reaction Emojis 213
French Police Probe Multiple Cuts of Major Internet Cables 44
Damaged Cable Leaves Shetland Cut Off From Mainland 30
Starry Internet Cuts 500 Jobs, Half Its Workforce, and Cancels Big Expansion 12
Starlink Unveils Airplane Service 79
Dallas Air Traffic Rerouted As FAA Probes Faulty GPS Signals 54
Microsoft Office 365 Vulnerability Could Allow Sidestepping of Email Encryption 21
US Opts To Not Rebuild Renowned Puerto Rico Telescope 130
Amazon's Set To Launch Its Prototype Internet Satellites Early Next Year 22
FCC Poised To Ban All US Sales of New Huawei and ZTE Equipment 42
Starlink Makes Maiden Asia Foray With Japan Launch 14
SpaceX Competitor Lynk Testing 5G Cellphone Service From Space 49
European Observatory NOEMA Reaches Full Capacity With Twelve Antennas 18
The Internet Archive Is Building a Digital Library of Amateur Radio Broadcasts 28
NYPD Considers Using Encryption To Block Public From Radio Scanner Broadcasts 126
Europe Braces For Mobile Network Blackouts 132
Wall Street Hit With $2 Billion of Fines in WhatsApp Probe 43
UK Online Safety Bill Threatens Security, WhatsApp Chief Warns 32
FCC Takes Long-Delayed Step Against Spam Text Surge 30
Elon Musk Activates Starlink For Iranian Citizens 42
Advocacy Group Asks FCC To Probe Efficacy of Wireless Industry's Voluntary Phone Unlocking Commitments 24
FCC Approves Space-Based Texting Service From Lynk 13
Elon Musk Enters In-Flight Wi-Fi Market With Small Satellites 40
SpaceX's Starlink Arrives In Antarctica, Now Available On All 7 Continents 63
A Text Alert May Have Saved California From Power Blackouts 135
Apple Removes SIM Card Tray On All iPhone 14 Models In US 153
T-Mobile Spectrum Auction Win Helps It Solve 'Swiss Cheese' Network Problem 18
Royal Caribbean Will Equip All Its Cruise Ships With Starlink Internet 47
SpaceX and T-Mobile Plan To Connect Mobile Phones To Satellites, Boost Cell Coverage 96
Faster Internet Is Coming To America - as Soon as the Government Knows Where To Build It 48
The Hacking of Starlink Terminals Has Begun 48
FCC Cancels $886 Million In Funding For SpaceX's Starlink 172
Google Fiber Plans 5-State Growth Spurt, Biggest Since 2015 36
One of 5G's Biggest Features Is a Security Minefield 42
SpaceX and Viasat Fight Over Whether Starlink Can Meet FCC Speed Obligations 94
Nokia, AST SpaceMobile Join Forces For Broadband From Space 29
Two of Europe's Biggest Internet Satellite Companies Are Merging To Take On Starlink 42
Rocket Debris From China Space Station Mission To Crash Land -- And No One Knows Where 44
Global Shortage of Fibre Optic Cable Threatens Digital Growth 22
Chinese-Made Huawei Equipment Could Disrupt US Nuclear Arsenal Communications, FBI Determines 84
SpaceX Breaks Annual Launch Record 14
FCC Orders Top Carriers To Explain How They Use and Share Phone Location Data 17
Japan's KDDI Mobile Service Criticized After 86-Hour Failure Last Weekend 14
FCC Gets 90K+ Comments From Starlink Users Protesting Dish Mobile Service 47
FCC Authorizes SpaceX To Provide Starlink Internet Service To Vehicles In Motion 26
Google Hangouts is Shutting Down in November 24
SpaceX Asserts 5G Would 'Blow Out' Satellite Users In 12 GHz Band 53
FAA: Airlines Must Retrofit Faulty Altimeters 'As Soon As Possible' 127
Did Telegram's Founder Lose a Million Dollar Bet Over a Prediction for Signal? 36
Discord Adds a Twitch-like Auto-Moderating Feature 74
Verizon, AT&T Agree to Delay Some 5G Rollouts Near Airports 21
Europe Cracks Down on Data Cap Exemptions in Update To Net Neutrality Rules 32
Elon Musk Reveals Details of Next-Generation Starlink Satellites 126
Starlink Has Been Approved in Nigeria and Mozambique 13
Starlink Gets Nod To Provide Internet in Philippines 9
Two Military Satellites Just Communicated With Each Other Using Space Lasers 51
UK, US, and EU Officially Blame Russia For Cyberattack Targeting Viasat 24
Low-Wage Earners To Get High-Speed Internet For $30 in Biden Program 226
Frontier Lied About Internet Speeds and 'Ripped Off Customers', FTC Says 22
VPN Providers Threaten To Quit India Over New Data Law 26
FAA Wants US Airlines To Retrofit, Replace Radio Altimeters 71
Ordinary Copper Telephone Wire Could Carry Gigabit Broadband Speeds 129
NASA's Space Telecoms Network May Soon Be Outsourced 23
California Net Neutrality Law To Remain Intact After Appeals Court Says It Won't Reconsider Earlier Decision 36
Delta Confirms It Worked With SpaceX To Trial Starlink's Satellite Internet 25
Researchers Break World Record For Quantum-Encrypted Communications 53
NASA Will Test SpinLaunch's Ability To Fling Satellites Into Orbit 85
Russia Is Jamming GPS Satellite Signals In Ukraine, US Space Force Says 136
Amazon Signs Multibillion-dollar Project Kuiper Launch Contracts 54
Modem-Wiping Malware Caused Viasat Satellite Broadband Outage In Europe 17
5G Skeptic 97
A New Proposal For Interstellar Communication With Alien Intelligences 97
T-Mobile Begins Shutdown of Sprint 3G Network 5
Global Science Project Links Android Phones With Satellites To Improve Weather Forecasts 10

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