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Court Rules in Favor of Telecom Firms

The nation's largest local phone companies won a Supreme Court victory Monday in a lawsuit by consumers alleging anticompetitive business practices.

Phone, Cable Companies to Battle in 2007

Vonage tanked after its IPO. It's not entirely clear anymore why eBay paid $2.6 billion for Skype. And the long-awaited rollout of advanced TV services based on Internet technologies has resembled the drip of a faucet.

New Zealand Opens Access Telecom Network

The government Wednesday said it has decided to grant competitors access to Telecom Corp.'s national fixed-line network, nearly two years after it rejected rivals' pleas to unbundle the network.

The Vine

Clinton's Broadband Proposals Losing Support

Source: Free Press

Back to Hillary and Barack, where they stand on broadband, and how Net Neutrality supporters are throwing their support to the silver-tongued Illinoisan.

Ten Worst Telecom Moments of 2007

Source: AlterNet.org

I've only gotten to the fourth paragraph and can tell that this is going to be a good article......it's getting better.....OMG!

Cell Phone Bills Surpassing Land Line

Source: AOL

WASHINGTON (Dec. 18) - With Americans cutting the cord to their land lines, 2007 is likely to be the first calendar year in which U.S.

Telecom Industry Wins a Round on Eavesdropping - NYT

Source: The New York Times

In one of the last efforts to stop the United States to become a dictatorship, an effort that would have preserved the right to punish telecommunications companies for their possible complicity in illegal wiretapping on ordinary Americans by the Bush Administration was defeated i …

Immunity and Wide Spy Powers Set to Pass in Senate

Source: Wired News

The Senate voted by a margin of 76 to 10 to limit debate on a new wiretapping bill Monday, all but ensuring that the Senate will approve amnesty for telecoms that helped the government spy on Americans without court orders and greatly expand the government's ability to spy using  …

Bush Admin Planned Illegal Domestic Spying Within Weeks Of Taking Office

Source: The New York Times

But lawyers for the plaintiffs say that if the suit were allowed to proceed, internal AT&T; documents would verify the engineer's account.

Why Wireless Isn't Wide Open

Source: Free Press

Even as the wireless industry chants a new gospel about opening mobile-phone networks to outside devices and applications, some of the biggest U.S.

Saints on cellphones spark controversy in Italy

Source: Reuters

If you are a Catholic looking for a saint in heaven to protect you, you no longer have to carry a small "holy card".

PC World - The Most Anti-Tech Organizations in America

Source: PC World

Their names keep coming up over and over again in courtrooms and corridors of power across the country--those groups whose interests always seem to run counter to those of technology companies and consumers.

Asian tiger

Source: Canada.com

It seems a given that if the U.S. economy slows down, Asia will follow because of its dependence on exports to American consumers. But it may not be so.

USA Today the Latest Suckered by Astroturf RE impending internet crash

Source: Save the Internet

In an article earlier this week, the paper's media beat reporter David Lieberman writes that the end of the Internet is nigh. It will start crashing down around us by the year 2010, he adds, citing a recent "study" by Nemertes Research.

T-Mobile Offers iPhone Without Contract

Source: ABC News

Deutsche Telekom AG's mobile unit said Wednesday it would offer Apple's iPhone without a contract to comply with a court injunction, but consumers that opt out of a two-year contract will pay more than twice as much for it.

Google Preparing $4.6 Billion FCC Auction Bid to Buy Wireless Spectrum

Source: Wall Street Journal

The company is gearing up to make a serious run at buying wireless spectrum, a chunk of the airwaves that can be used to provide mobile phone and Internet services, in a Federal Communications Commission auction in January.

Can Google Mine Mobile Gold?

Source: Red Herring

One day after Google's splashy entry into the mobile market, the telecom industry is still divided over whether Google can deliver on its stated goal to transform wireless.

ATT Technician Says NSA Was Copying the Whole Internet

Source: inteldaily.com

The AT&T; technician who stumbled across a secret room in the company's San Francisco facility which was sending copies of all telephone and Internet communications to the NSA, is on Capitol Hill this week, urging Congress not to give immunity to the telecommunications companies f …

Verizon Admits to Emergency Wiretapping

Source: eweek.com

Verizon—without a warrant or subpoena—turned over customer records of telephone calls and Internet activities to federal officials more than 700 times since 2005, according to the nation's second largest telecom carrier.

Comcast Gets Smacked by Wall Street, Media

Source: Free Press

In many ways, the Comcast Must Die campaign and blog launched online earlier this month by Advertising Age columnist Bob Garfield gives exceptional prominence to the grassroots frustration with cable in general, and Comcast in particular.

Questions Dog Nokia-Siemens Networks

Source: SPIEGEL ONLINE

The nine-month-old telecom equipment joint venture is losing money. Scandal-plagued Siemens may bail out of its half.

Comcast Filters Political Content

Source: bsalert.com

We didn't know it, but for the past week, anyone using Comcast has been unable to receive any Email with "www.afterdowningstreet.org" in the body of the Email. That has included every Email from me, since that was in my signature at the bottom of every Email I sent.

New 'Connected Vehicle' Proving Center Opens in Ann Arbor

Source: Life, The Universe...

Michigan state government officials and executives from the transportation, manufacturing, automotive and telecommunications sectors were on hand for the dedication of the Connected Vehicle Proving Center (CVPC) in Ann Arbor.

Verizon's Big TV Bet Pays Off

Source: Business Week

Investors battered the company's stock for years. But now they're beginning to show support for CEO Seidenberg. Two years ago, Verizon (VZ) CEO Ivan Seidenberg's aggressive push into the pay TV market was widely dismissed as an expensive corporate boondoggle.

U.K. Study Finds No Health Effects of Cell Phone Use

Source: Life, The Universe ...

Mobile phones have not been found to be associated with any biological or adverse health effects, according to the UK's largest investigation into the possible health risks from mobile telephone technology.

Telecom Changes Put Competition on the Line - washingtonpost.com

Source: The Washington Post

For most of the industrial age, homes primarily communicated to the outside world through a basic copper phone wire.

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