Communications Stories for 2023

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