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AT&T customer since 1960 buys WSJ print ad to complain of slow speeds, asks CEO why AT&T left DSL areas with poor access (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 02/03/2021 - 18:33Comcast lifts uploads to 5 Mbps amid complaints its low-income plan is too slow (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 02/03/2021 - 13:44Jeff Bezos to leave Amazon CEO post after 27 years, become executive chair (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 02/02/2021 - 16:04Why victims of AT&T unlimited-data throttling get only $22 in settlements
AT&T has agreed to a $12 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit over its throttling of "unlimited" mobile data plans. As usual, refunds to individual customers amount to a fraction of what the customers paid for the hobbled service. The paltry nature of expected per-person payments was explained by plaintiffs in a filing that asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California to approve the settlement.
Facebook makes the case for activity tracking to iOS 14 users in new pop-ups (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 02/01/2021 - 16:42Mediacom warns “excessive” uploaders, says network can’t handle heavy usage
Mediacom is telling heavy uploaders to reduce their data usage—even when those users are well below their monthly data caps. Mediacom's fastest Internet plan offers gigabit download speeds and 50Mbps upload speeds with a monthly data cap of 6TB.
Massachusetts State Reps try to ban Comcast data cap and price hikes until pandemic is over
In response to Comcast imposing a data cap on Massachusetts residents, state lawmakers have proposed a ban on data caps, new fees, and price increases on home-Internet services for the duration of the pandemic. The legislation was filed on Jan 26 by Democratic state representatives Andy Vargas and Dave Rogers.
CenturyLink, Frontier missed FCC broadband deadlines in dozens of states
CenturyLink and Frontier Communications have again failed to meet broadband-deployment deadlines in dozens of states after taking money from the Federal Communications Commission. The deadline to hit 100 percent of the required deployments passed on December 31, 2020. Both CenturyLink and Frontier informed the FCC that they missed the deadline to finish deployment in numerous states. The carriers won't face the possibility of punishment yet.