Comcast’s purchase of the 49 percent of NBCUniversal that it didn’t already own was expected to take several years, but the cable provider said Tuesday it has bought the rest of the company for $16.7 billion. Read more »
After users complained about bad online video experiences, France’s telecom regulator launched an investigation trying to figure out if a local ISP was blocking YouTube or if it was just underinvesting in its network. A decision is expected soon, and could have worldwide repercussions. Read more at GigaOM »
Some famous newspaper titles are going on sale next year. Meanwhile, as analyst Ken Doctor reports, regulators will re-examine rules that limit cross-ownership of media platforms. Read more »
Found a broadcast program on YouTube that doesn’t come with closed captions? Then you can now use a special complaints form to tell on the publisher, who should have supplied subtitles according to new regulations that came into effect earlier this month. Read more at GigaOM »
TheFCC has settled with Comcast over charges that the cable company made it hard for consumers to find stand-alone broadband packages that don’t cost an arm and leg. As part of the settlement Comcast paid the U.S. Treasury $800,000. Read more at GigaOM »
The Supreme Court chose to keep the country in suspense today over its momentous health care ruling, and instead issued a decision confirming that the FCC was wrong to sanction Fox over brief f-bombs by Cher and Nicole Richie. Read more »
The Department of Justice is looking into the power that cable providers have over how and where consumers can access television content via the Internet. It’s a step that acknowledges the vertical integration of cable as well as their control over the last mile. Read more at GigaOM »
The number of junk text messages in the U.S. reportedly rose to 4.5 billion last year. This can create a nasty choice for consumers — pay to be spammed or pay protection money to a carrier. Read more at GigaOM »
Congress, along with many in the content industry, are wondering about the fate of television in an Internet Age. I think the future is broadband, and I’d like to offer this chart from Sandvine, showing that the future is already here. Read more at GigaOM »
Like some hideous policy monster that won’t go away, network neutrality is hitting the headlines again. Verizon and Metro PCS, the two opera… Read more »
The Supreme Court will hear today whether the FCC can punish broadcast networks for airing one-off cuss words and an actress’s derriere. The… Read more »
AT&T (NYSE: T) finally won a round with the U.S. government, but only because T-Mobile wasn’t involved. The carrier got the go-ahead to purc… Read more »
One of the most audacious and controversial mergers in mobile history is dead, and give AT&T (NYSE: T) at least a little credit for understa… Read more »
AT&T’s attempt to remake the U.S. wireless landscape with its huge $39 billion deal for T-Mobile may have finally reached the breaking point… Read more »
AT&T (NYSE: T) issued a strongly worded point-by-point critique of the report released earlier this week by the Federal Communications Commi… Read more »
Could AT&T (NYSE: T) want T-Mobile’s spectrum and network assets so badly as to contemplate arranging a joint venture between it and T-Mobil… Read more »
Call this one a not-so-sweet release for AT&T (NYSE: T). The Federal Communications Commission has said has let AT&T drop its FCC applicatio… Read more »
Nobody likes uncertainty heading into two of the most important months of the mobile calendar: the December holiday shopping season and the… Read more »
Today, on a public holiday in the U.S., AT&T (NYSE: T) and Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) issued a statement saying they would be withdrawing t… Read more »
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission does not like what it sees in the proposed mega-merger between AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile. It ha… Read more »
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Bloomberg TV is making a renewed push to fight its way out of the nosebleed section of Comcast’s channel line-up. Tired of being stuck at 10… Read more »
A sign of Twitter’s growing power, and increasing need to interface with government to get its message across: the company has hired a new h… Read more »
According to legal documents inadvertently made public by AT&T (NYSE: T) Thursday, it would have cost the carrier $3.8 billion to build an L… Read more »
AT&T (NYSE: T) has defended its $39 billion proposed acquisition of T-Mobile by claiming that it needs T-Mobile’s wireless spectrum in order… Read more »
Struggling mobile provider *Sprint* Nextel announced a 15-year partnership with LightSquared on Thursday, the wireless venture backed by bil… Read more »
Last month, Bloomberg made it known that it was quite unhappy with where Bloomberg TV was being placed in Comcast’s TV lineup. Bloomberg, wh… Read more »
Add Minnesota Senator Al Franken to the list of people who oppose the merger of AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile, and he’s not joking. Allowing t… Read more »
A draft GOP bill to auction off TV broadcast spectrum could become embroiled in the ongoing feud between President Obama and congressional R… Read more »
Turns out content was king during the first half of 2011, as CBS (NYSE: CBS), Comcast/NBCU (NSDQ: CMCSA), and News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) posted s… Read more »
Public interest groups and at least one FCC commissioner cheered on Thursday after a federal appeals court threw out part of the agency’s me… Read more »
If you had any doubt that money talks in politics, consider today’s development in the lobbying effort for AT&T’s proposed $39 billion buyou… Read more »
The four U.S. wireless carriers all have four different versions of what they consider 4G networking speeds and technology, and therefore wi… Read more »
The first round of public comments on AT&T’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile is coming to a close, and two of the companies most involved i… Read more »
The aggressive sales pitch that AT&T (NYSE: T) has attached to its landmark acquisition of T-Mobile claimed its first victim over the weeken… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Acer cuts its tablet forecast; Facebook apparently lining up a new photo app; some consol… Read more »
Bloomberg doesn’t feel like its financial news channel is in the right kind of “neighborhood,” according to a legal complaint filed with the… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: AT&T (NYSE: T) has its right of reply to the critics of its proposed T-Mobile USA acquisi… Read more »
The FCC has produced a 478-page report on the state of the media in the digital age, and-no surprise-the report has found a big gap in watch… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: hours before we start to hear the real news, some spoofed speculations on what we might s… Read more »
