Utah ISP’s internet filtering ad knocks customers offline

Internet providers are no stranger to targeting and inserting ads, but CenturyLink is being a little more... direct. Utah-based customers have discovered that CenturyLink is blocking their internet connections until they acknowledge an ad for the IS...

Net neutrality is a double-edged sword for small ISPs

I have a love-hate relationship with Title II," Anthony Booth told Engadget. Booth is the president of Portland, Oregon-based ISP Stephouse Networks. His company serves over a thousand people in a 500 square-mile area, many who wouldn't have broadban...

Colorado voters really want city-run broadband service

Internet access and quality varies widely depending on where you live in the US. There's a huge rural broadband gap that the FCC, companies like Microsoft and the Trump administration have said they'd like to close in the coming years and as Clevelan...

Seattle enacts broadband privacy rules where the FCC won’t

Just because the FCC and White House have rolled back broadband privacy rules doesn't mean internet providers are free to sell your data without permission... if you live in Seattle, they'll still have to ask nicely. City mayor Ed Murray has impleme...

Virginia bill would effectively ban city-run broadband

Now that the FCC can't prevent states from blocking municipal broadband, telecom-backed politicians are doing their best to shut down these government-run networks. Virginia House Republican Kathy Byron has put forward a bill that would make municipa...

Apple’s TV single sign-on feature goes live in the US

Apple just made your TV watching much easier... if you subscribe to the right services, that is. After dropping some hints in November, Apple has activated its promised single sign-on feature for Apple TV and iOS users in the US, but only for a hand...

T-Mobile fined $17.5 million for non-compilance on 911 outages in 2014


The Federal Communications Commission posted on July 17 about T-Mobile's $17.5 million fine for a failure to address two national outages lasting nearly 3 hours in August 8, 2014 that affected 911...