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T-Mobile has 5G leverage and isn’t afraid to use it (Vox)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 02/24/2021 - 09:55
Net neutrality law to take effect in California after judge deals blow to telecom industry
California may soon begin enforcing its first-in-the-nation net neutrality law after a federal judge ruled against broadband providers that had sought to scuttle the state’s open-Internet safeguards.
A new browser extension blocks any websites that use Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or Amazon (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 02/24/2021 - 06:275G in the US is Disappointing Right Now, But It's Going to Get Better
We’ve been promised a fourth industrial revolution with fantastical things like remote surgery and driverless cars. Instead, what we have now is widespread 5G that’s more or less the same speed as (or even slower than) 4G and super-fast mmWave 5G in some parts of some major cities with highly limited range. So where is this 5G future we’ve been promised? The truth is that it’s coming along, but it will materialize more slowly and in less obvious ways than what we’ve been led to believe.