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T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users

AT&T enables unlocking of paid-off phones after 60 days for postpaid users and after six months for prepaid users. AT&T lodged similar complaints as T-Mobile,...

Judge slams Florida for censoring political ad: “It’s the First Amendment, stupid”

Because "Caroline's diagnosis was terminal... an abortion would not have saved her life, only extended it. Florida law would not allow an abortion in this...

FCC Republican opposes regulation of data caps with analogy to coffee refills

Simington argued that regulating data caps would harm customers, using an analogy about the hypothetical regulation of coffee refills: Suppose we were a different FCC,...

Reports: China hacked Verizon and AT&T, may have accessed US wiretap systems

Chinese government hackers penetrated the networks of several large US-based Internet service providers and may have gained access to systems used for court-authorized wiretaps of...

Former county clerk Tina Peters sentenced to 9 years for voting-system breach

Tina Peters, a former election official in Colorado's Mesa County who promoted former President Donald Trump's election conspiracy theories and was responsible for a breach...

Mistrial declared for ex-AT&T exec accused of bribing government official

EnlargeGetty Images | AaronP/Bauer-Griffin A mistrial was declared today in the trial of former AT&T Illinois President Paul La Schiazza, who was...

TV viewers get screwed again as Disney channels are blacked out on DirecTV

EnlargeDisney Disney-owned channels have been blacked out on DirecTV for the past two days because of a contract dispute, with both companies...

Telegram CEO charged with numerous crimes and is banned from leaving France

Enlarge / Pavel Durov, CEO and co-founder of Telegram, speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 on September 21, 2015, in San Francisco.Getty Images |...

Elon Musk went judge shopping in ad lawsuit and didn’t get the judge he wanted

Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks at the Satellite Conference and Exhibition on March 9, 2020 in Washington, DC.Getty Images | Win McNamee ...

T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock—guess what happened next

EnlargeGetty Images | NurPhoto When T-Mobile announced price hikes of up to $5 per line on older smartphone plans last month,...

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