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<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Friday-Evening-Links-118540"><img src="http://i.dslr.net/urls/14/2264514.gif" width=100 border=0/></a><br>  <a href="http://consumerist.com/2012/02/why-wont-anyone-at-att-answer-the-dsl-cancellation-line.html?">No Cancellation For You! Why Won't Anyone At AT&T Answer The DSL Cancellation Line?</a>  consumerist.com <br>  <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120224/11082417868/one-more-copyright-infringement-hadopi-must-disconnect-itself-net.shtml">Irony Alert: The government body that oversees France's 3 Strikes laws (HADOPI) caught infringing again; one more time, and it must disconnect itself from the Internet</a>  techdirt.com <br>  <a href="http://www.cable360.net/ct/news/thewire/50860.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cable360%2Fct%2Fnews%2Fthewire+%28Cable+360+%3A%3A+Communications+Technology+%3A%3A+News+%3A%3A+From+the+Wire%29">BrightLine plans to pick up where Canoe left off</a>  cable360.net <br>  <a href="http://www.lightreading.com/blog.asp?blog_sectionid=217&doc_id=217936&f_src=lightreading_sectiontype_Blog">Duopoly Money</a>  lightreading.com <br>  <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/24/us-netflix-rim-idUSTRE81N15C20120224">Ouch! Netflix: no plan to support BlackBerry, PlayBook</a>  reuters.com <br>  <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-slows-download-speeds-to-drive-away-pirates-120224/">Rapidshare slows download speeds to discourage pirates</a>  torrentfreak.com <br>  <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/computing/119571-mozilla-partners-up-with-lg-to-combat-apple-and-google-with-its-own-device">Mozilla partners up with LG to combat Apple and Google with its own device</a>  extremetech.com <br>  <a href="http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/74493.html?">Continental Divide: The Forces Shaping Broadband in Western and Eastern Europe</a>  ecommercetimes.com <br>  <a href="http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/373111/will-britain-get-europes-best-broadband?">Will Britain get Europes best broadband?</a>  pcpro.co.uk <br>  <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/23/2820527/tivo-transcoder-ip-based-set-top-box-release-summer">TiVo transcoder and IP-based set-top box coming 'by the end of summer'</a>  theverge.com <br>  <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/24/2821128/microsoft-kills-zune-windows-live-branding-in-windows-8">How Microsoft is killing off the Zune and Windows Live brands in Windows 8</a>  theverge.com <br>  <a href="http://blog.intego.com/flashback-mac-trojan-horse-infections-increasing-with-new-variant/">Flashback Mac Trojan Horse Infections Increasing with New Variant</a>  intego.com <br><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Friday-Evening-Links-118540">read comment(s)</a></p><br clear=all>]]></description>
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<title>Weekend Open Thread - Please Deposit Your Thoughts</title>
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<title>Sprint Almost Just Acquired MetroPCS - Deal Scrapped at Last Second by Sprint Board</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Sprint-Almost-Just-Acquired-MetroPCS-118538</link>
<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Sprint-Almost-Just-Acquired-MetroPCS-118538"><img src="http://i.dslr.net/urls/72/4172.gif" width=100 border=0/></a><br><i><a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/46486907">CNBC</a></i> is exclusively reporting that Sprint was literally inches away from an $8 billion deal to acquire MetroPCS last Wednesday -- but Sprint's board ultimately voted against the plan. According to anonymous sources, both companies were literally hours away from announcing the deal after months of negotiations, but the board voted down the deal for unknown reasons despite CEO Hesse's approval. The scrapped deal would have given MetroPCS one third ownership of the combined company and a 30% premium over the price of MetroPCS shares, with Sprint gaining MetroPCS' 9.35 million subscribers.<br><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Sprint-Almost-Just-Acquired-MetroPCS-118538">read comment(s)</a></p><br clear=all>]]></description>
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<title>DOJ Pressures Supremes to Drop Warrantless Challenge - As Government Proposes Privacy Bill of Rights</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/DOJ-Pressures-Supremes-to-Drop-Warrantless-Challenge-118535"><img src="http://i.dslr.net/urls/78/4678.gif" width=100 border=0/></a><br><i><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/scotus-fisa-amendments/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=facebookclickthru">Wired</a></i> notes that the Department of Justice is urging the Supreme Court to  halt a legal challenge to the government's warrantless wiretap efforts. At the center of those efforts are the phone companies, who whistleblowers have alleged are shoveling <b>all</b> phone and data traffic from numerous companies right into the lap of the NSA -- and the FISA Amendments Act, which gave those companies immunity from criminal penalties for violating privacy law. The Supreme Court is being asked to review the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program that has subsequently been expanded by the Obama administration. That this is occurring while the White House <a href="/shownews/White-House-Unveils-Privacy-Bill-of-Rights-118509">professes a dedication to online privacy</a> is more than a little amusing.<br><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/DOJ-Pressures-Supremes-to-Drop-Warrantless-Challenge-118535">read comment(s)</a></p><br clear=all>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:21:35 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>MetroPCS Promises to Be Among the First to VoLTE - Will Offer Two VoLTE-Capable Handsets This Year</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/MetroPCS-Promises-to-Be-Among-the-First-to-VoLTE-118532</link>
<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/MetroPCS-Promises-to-Be-Among-the-First-to-VoLTE-118532"><img src="http://i.dslr.net/urls/99/87299.gif" width=100 border=0/></a><br>Wireless voice traffic continues to travel over the 3G (EVDO, HSPA) portion of carrier networks until LTE carriers deploy voice over LTE (VoLTE), which should provide users will significantly better call audio quality. Verizon recently <a href="/shownews/117976">delayed their deployment of VoLTE until 2013</a>, in part because incomplete LTE build outs and the inability to handoff calls between 3G and 4G networks mean the user experience would be highly clunky (for lack of a more technical term).  <br> <br>MetroPCS this week reiterated they'll be among the first to launch VoLTE in the U.S., and that they'll have two VoLTE-capable (not necessarily working) handsets <a href="http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=217847&">available this year</a>. The company complains the predominant VoLTE chipset, the Qualcomm 8960, is not quite fully cooked. Qualcomm only <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/qualcomm-chipset-powers-first-successful-voip-over-lte-call-with-single-radio-voice-call-continuity-138556144.html">just announced</a> the first successful "seamless" call handoff between an LTE and WCDMA network.  <br> <br>All of that said, MetroPCS being first to VoLTE may not mean all that much. The company was the <a href="/shownews/MetroPCS-Shakes-Up-LTE-Pricing-118117">first in the country to deploy LTE</a>, but their implementation was more like "LTE light," in some cases barely offering downstream speeds up to 1 Mbps over crippled devices prohibited from accessing the full Internet. <br><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/MetroPCS-Promises-to-Be-Among-the-First-to-VoLTE-118532">read comment(s)</a></p><br clear=all>]]></description>
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<title>AT&amp;amp;T Deploys Self-Healing Wireless Network Technology - Should Ease Problems With Overloaded Cell Towers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Deploys-SelfHealing-Wireless-Network-Technology-118529"><img src="http://i.dslr.net/urls/71/4471.gif" width=100 border=0/></a><br>John Donovan, senior EVP of AT&T technology, today revealed via the company's <a href="http://www.attinnovationspace.com/innovation/story/a7781187">blog</a> that AT&T will soon deploy "self healing" technology that should result in a more resilient wireless network. AT&T's self-optimizing network (SON) technology is being developed by <a href="http://intucellsystems.com/">Intucell</a>, and AT&T says they're the first to deploy it. According to Donovan, the technology can automatically detect when a tower is overloaded, and recruit nearby towers for assistance in real time without human intervention.  <br> <br>"Initial field trial results from California and Georgia have shown as much as a 10 percent improvement in call retainability, 10 percent improvement in throughput speeds and 15 percent reduction in overloading," says AT&T, offering a <a href="http://youtu.be/dSlidv-Pdy0">video</a> with a little more detail. att=1730527 <br><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Deploys-SelfHealing-Wireless-Network-Technology-118529">read comment(s)</a></p><br clear=all>]]></description>
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<title>Verizon Quickly Reverts to Pretending There's a Spectrum Crisis - After Clearly Stating There Wasn't One Weeks Earlier</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Quickly-Reverts-to-Pretending-Theres-a-Spectrum-Crisis-118528"><img src="http://i.dslr.net/urls/42/69542.gif" width=100 border=0/></a><br>Years ago then-Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg clearly stated the company would have more than enough spectrum to fully offer nationwide LTE wireless broadband. That was before the company moved to nab another 122 Advanced Wireless Services spectrum licenses from the cable industry. <a href="/shownews/118015">Studies</a> show both AT&T and Verizon have plenty of spectrum, particularly after re-farming spectrum currently being used for 2G and 3G (EVDO) services.  <br> <br>Taking that one step further, Verizon Wireless CEO Dan Mead <a href="/shownews/Verizon-Weve-Got-Plenty-of-Spectrum-Thanks-118417">stated just last week Verizon has plenty of spectrum</a> and won't have to even worry about refarming existing spectrum anytime soon. So it's interesting to read <a href="http://policyblog.verizon.com/BlogPost/852/Spectrum-CrunchingtheNumbers.aspx">a post at Verizon's policy blog</a> that, after patting themselves on their back for their quick LTE deployment and efficient use of resources, goes right back to chirping about a supposed "spectrum crisis" that we really should do something about:<div class="bquote"><p>Rather than waste time arguing about spectrum efficiency, let s focus on the issue on which we all agree:  America s wireless consumers face a spectrum crunch that won t be relieved by Verizon s spectrum purchase. It s up to the industry, as well as policymakers, to help ensure that more spectrum reaches the marketplace soon, so America s wireless industry remains the global leader in innovation that it is today.</p></div>So Verizon has plenty of spectrum, but there's still a spectrum crisis? If there's a crunch, it's being felt by smaller companies who can't afford to outbid industry giants AT&T and Verizon at auction. Should a company obtain spectrum, lobbyists attempt to <a href="/shownews/Is-Dish-Serious-About-LTE-or-Just-Playing-ATT-118208">sabotage the process</a> and obtain that spectrum anyway. With the <a href="/shownews/CNN-Fans-The-Spectrum-Crisis-Flames-118514">help of the press</a>, AT&T and Verizon keep a "crisis" narrative afloat, allowing them to gobble up spectrum for anti-competitive reasons, justify ridiculously low caps and extremely high per byte overages, and scare lawmakers into passing protectionist regulations. <br> <br>If there's a crisis, it's an anti-competitive one.<br><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Quickly-Reverts-to-Pretending-Theres-a-Spectrum-Crisis-118528">read comment(s)</a></p><br clear=all>]]></description>
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<title>Mozilla: We Offered 'Do Not Track' Before it Was Cool - Chides Google for Not Yet Offering it Via Chrome</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Mozilla-We-Offered-Do-Not-Track-Before-it-Was-Cool-118524</link>
<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Mozilla-We-Offered-Do-Not-Track-Before-it-Was-Cool-118524"><img src="http://i.dslr.net/urls/38/3838.gif" width=100 border=0/></a><br>As we noted yesterday the White House introduced a new <a href="">privacy bill of rights</a> which consists largely of a bunch of initiatives started by industry in the hopes of pre-empting real privacy regulations. The completely voluntary measures include adding "do not track" functionality to browsers, something Mozilla noted this week they've been doing for some time. Mozilla makes some not-so-subtle jabs at Google for not-yet offering the functionality via Chrome, since Google's primary game is advertising, and it's already available in Safari, Internet Explorer, and Opera. Says Mozilla:<div class="bquote"><p>We re encouraged to see increased momentum for Do Not Track. And as of today, it s safe to say it s here to stay Mozilla will continue to work at the W3C, which has a vital role to play in creating an international standard We want to continue to see Do Not Track evolve through the Internet s rich tradition of open development and collaborative innovation. Do Not Track is too important to become a product of closed-door meetings rather than through open, multi-stakeholder efforts.</p></div>While the functionality is available, not all that many Firefox users use it, with Mozilla noting that just 18% of mobile and 7% of desktop Firefox users currently have it activated.  <br> <br>Google says they'll soon add the functionality to Chrome, but as <a href="http://news.consumerreports.org/electronics/2012/02/two-ways-that-do-not-track-wont-protect-your-privacy.html">Consumer Reports</a> notes there's several instances where it won't really work to protect you -- like when you're signed into Google accounts or your browsing is tied closely to your Facebook account. There's also nothing guaranteeing that more malicious and less ethical players will cooperate with the effort. The government says they'll push for more unified privacy protections by conducting "open, transparent multistakeholder processes," which unfortunately is quite often code for the exact opposite.<br><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Mozilla-We-Offered-Do-Not-Track-Before-it-Was-Cool-118524">read comment(s)</a></p><br clear=all>]]></description>
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<title>Google Sells Stake in Clearwire - Sells $500 Million (2008) Stake for $47 Million</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Google-Sells-Stake-in-Clearwire-118523"><img src="http://i.dslr.net/urls/57/4657.gif" width=100 border=0/></a><br>An <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/101830/000119312512076375/d304522dsc13da.htm">SEC filing</a> notes that Google has sold their 6.5% stake in Clearwire, purchased for $500 million back in 2008. Google's taking quite a loss on the investment, selling that same stake now for just $47 million. Clearwire's losing friends rather quickly, having just lost the entire cable industry as an investment source after their <a href="/shownews/Verizon-Nabs-Large-Chunk-of-Cable-Industry-Spectrum-117266">new marketing arrangement with Verizon</a>. Google's exit is only the latest indicator that Clearwire wasn't the wireless revolution it hoped to be. The company has since largely exited retail and is focused on being a wholesale operation that still relies heavily on Sprint to maintain financial viability.<br><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Google-Sells-Stake-in-Clearwire-118523">read comment(s)</a></p><br clear=all>]]></description>
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<title>Study: AT&amp;amp;T Throttling of Unlimited Makes No Practical Sense - Confirms Carrier is Simply Pushing Those Users to Tiered Plans</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Study-ATT-Throttling-of-Unlimited-Makes-No-Practical-Sense-118522"><img src="http://i.dslr.net/urls/71/4471.gif" width=100 border=0/></a><br>Last week we noted that AT&T has been waging a quiet war on those "unlimited" users they grandfathered in 2010 when the company ditched unlimited data for new users. Not only is AT&T <a href="/shownews/ATT-to-Kill-Grandfathered-Unlimited-If-You-Tether-Unofficially-115528">automatically putting those users on tiered data plans</a> should they jailbreak their phones and tether unofficially (totally legal, for now), they've started <a href="/shownews/118235">throttling those users after 2 GB</a> to quietly force them to tiered data plans. A new study by the folks at <a href="http://blog.validas.com/blog/2012/02/17/why_throttle/">Validas</a> studied 55,000 cell phone bills and confirmed what we already knew -- AT&T's decision to throttle the top 5% of unlimited users is simply a way to force those users onto tiered plans:<div class="bquote"><p>When we look at the Top 5% of data users, there is virtually no difference in data consumption between those on unlimited and those on tiered plans and yet the unlimited consumers are the ones at risk of getting their service turned off. So it s curious that anyone would think the throttling here represents a serious effort at alleviating network bandwidth issues. After all, Sprint gets by fine maintaining non-throttled unlimited data to its customers.</p></div>How hard users are throttled or how low caps are usually aren't tied in any way to real world economics or network performance -- they're tied to executive desire for improved quarterly earnings. By making wireless data ever-more precious and costly -- they can offset the expected SMS and voice revenue losses as everything becomes just data. Validas also found that on Verizon, unlimited users actually use less data than users on metered plans, something that runs <a href="/shownews/Cisco-Metered-Users-Consume-More-Data-118354">in stark contrast to recent Cisco analysis</a>. Verizon also throttles its heavy grandfathered unlimited users, but nowhere near as heavily as AT&T does.<br><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Study-ATT-Throttling-of-Unlimited-Makes-No-Practical-Sense-118522">read comment(s)</a></p><br clear=all>]]></description>
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<title>Thursday Evening Links - </title>
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<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Thursday-Evening-Links-118520"><img src="http://i.dslr.net/urls/87/83287.gif" width=100 border=0/></a><br>  <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/view/303983/Plusnet-reveals-the-internet-of-the-future?">Thinktank reveals the Internet of the future: "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot access the internet"</a>  express.co.uk <br>  <a href="http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-02/wi-fi-could-become-widespread-cellular?">With New Standard,Wi-Fi Could Become As Widespread As Cellular</a>  Popular Science <br>  <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120222/04033217839/new-rules-to-block-distracted-driving-will-likely-make-things-worse-not-better.shtml">New Rules To Block 'Distracted Driving' Will Likely Make Things Worse, Not Better</a>  techdirt.com <br>  <a href="http://gigaom.com/mobile/want-to-see-2012s-mobile-future-look-at-2011/">Mobile Web and App Usage Now at Parity</a>  gigaom.com <br>  <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenwunker/2012/02/23/13-9-billion-gone-and-the-wireless-disruption-has-just-begun/?ss=ceo-network">$13.9 Billion Gone, and the Wireless Disruption Has Just Begun</a>  forbes.com <br>  <a href="http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?C=1&ID=471519">T-Mobile USA to spend $4 billion on LTE buildout</a>  totaltele.com <br>  <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/02/23/wireless-carrier-predictions/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29">2020: The Rise or Demise of Wireless Carriers?</a>  mashable.com <br>  <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120222/01562717837/how-new-internet-spying-laws-will-actually-enable-stalkers-spammers-phishers-yes-pedophiles-terrorists.shtml">How New Internet Spying Laws Will Actually <I>Enable</I> Stalkers, Spammers, Phishers And, Yes, Pedophiles & Terrorists</a>  techdirt.com <br>  <a href="http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/european-mvnos-get-crunched-price-and-turn-data/2012-02-23?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss">European MVNOs get crunched on price and turn to data</a>  foercewireless.com <br>  <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57383531-261/google-music-not-living-up-to-expectations-exclusive/">Google Music not living up to expectations</a>  cnet.com <br>  <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-23/google-agrees-to-join-do-no-track-button-industry-agreement.html">Google Allows  Do-Not-Track  Button in Browser to Protect Consumer Data</a>  bloomberg.com <br><a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Thursday-Evening-Links-118520">read comment(s)</a></p><br clear=all>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:40:34 EDT</pubDate>
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