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Huzzah, Now ISPs Can’t Charge Rental Fees for Your Own Dang Modem
If you’ve ever wondered why you still have to pay your internet provider rental fees for a modem even after you bought it, I have some good news: A new U.S. law is shutting that shit down from here on out.
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Frontier’s Bankruptcy Shows Why ISPs Shouldn’t Be in Charge of the Internet
Let’s state the obvious: Internet in the U.S. sucks. Unless you already have fibre, you’re probably stuck with cable, DSL, or no internet at all because no ISP wants to expand into your area. If you live in a rural area and are lucky to get some form of broadband, you’re probably paying an exorbitant…
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Texas Bill Would Make It Illegal For Verizon And Any Other Wireless Provider To Throttle Disaster Zones In The U.S.
Legislators in Texas are mulling a bill that would make illegal to “impair or degrade” mobile data in any declared disaster zone, in an apparent response to telecom giant Verizon’s decision last year to tell California firefighters busy tackling the deadly Mendocino Complex fire they needed to upgrade their plan or continue to suffer slow…
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New York To Charter: Expand Your Network Or We’ll Reverse The Time Warner Merger
The New York State Public Service Commission is doing something that just about every consumer wishes they could do to their internet service provider: telling them to actually provide the service promised or get bent. The agency ordered Charter to pay a multi-million dollar fine and complete required expansion of its network or face having…