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Small Texas City Losing Cable TV, Keeping Internet after Network Sale

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6,000) will soon experience a shift in its media landscape as TDS Telecom plans to discontinue its cable TV service there by Sept. The move comes as part of a broader agreement in which TDS Telecom, headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, has sold its cable systems in Alpine and four other Texas locations. Alpine, Texas (pop.

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First cables laid to bring fast, reliable broadband to South Wiltshire under government’s Project Gigabit

Total Telecom

Mole ploughs broke the ground in Stapleford last week, as Wessex Internet began its physical work to deliver full fibre internet to 14,500 homes and businesses in South Wiltshire. This delivers connection speeds of up to 10Gbps, with far superior speeds and reliability compared to old copper telephone lines.

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U.S. federal appeals court says FCC’s net neutrality/open internet rules are “unlawful”

IEEE ComSoc

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit today struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s ( FCCs ) hard-fought and long-debated net neutrality/open internet rules. The 6th Circuit said the FCC did not have the statutory authority to change the classification of broadband internet to a telecommunications service.

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Supreme Court to Decide Fate of $8 Billion Broadband Fund

Broadband Breakfast

  Critics argue that the Federal Communications Commission improperly delegated legislative authority to USAC, which manages the fund, and that the fee charged to telecom providers resembles a tax, which only Congress can impose. Lifeline : Subsidized phone and internet services for low-income households, receiving $869.9

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How U.S. telecom policy derailed in early 1990s in slow motion train wreck

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policymaking on Internet infrastructure began shortly before the Internet was decommissioned as a government-run network in the mid-1990s. Everyone else was essentially left off the new telecommunications “grid” of the Internet. Excerpted from Service Unavailable: America’s Telecommunications Infrastructure Crisis U.S

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1996 Telecom Act affords FCC clear, unambiguous authority for Title II rulemaking

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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Investor owned telephone and cable companies and their trade associations hope the courts will put the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s recently issued Open Internet rulemaking on ice, slated to become effective July 22. They believe their case has been strengthened by the U.S.

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How to Successfully Migrate from Traditional Telecom to Modern Packet-Based Phone Networks

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A portion of the telephone network that dates back several decades is often called Plain Old Telephone Service, or POTS for short. Applications for POTS Lines What kinds of applications have used these analog telephone lines? However, there are other applications that are still implemented on POTS networks.