U.S. officials are discouraging U.S. telephone and internet companies from purchasing Chinese technology that could be used for surveillance, Federal Communications Commissioner Ajit Pai announced Monday. “Threats to national security posed by certain communications equipment providers are a matter of bipartisan concern,” Pai said. “Hidden ‘back doors’ to our networks in routers, switches — and […]
AT&T Captures Classified NSA Tech Contract…
Following a resolved bid protest, the National Security Agency can now begin work with telecommunications giant AT&T on the second of three massive tech contracts that make up the agency’s classified Groundbreaker program. The Government Accountability Office denied a protest last week, filed by losing bidder DXC Technology, allowing AT&T to begin executing on an […]
AT&T Is Giving $1,000 Bonuses to 200,000 Employees in Response to Tax Bill Passage…
AT&T-Time Warner Merger Doubtful After DOJ Sues To Block It
The U.S. Department of Justice sued to block AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner today. According to its Complaint, the DOJ believes that if AT&T is allowed to acquire Time Warner, the combined company will gouge its video distribution competitors by raising the price of Timer Warner’s networks. The DOJ’s Complaint lays out two reasons it […]
REPORT: U.S. Will Only Approve AT&T-Time Warner Deal if CNN Is Sold…
The U.S. Department of Justice may block Time Warner’s sale to AT&T if it doesn’t sell CNN first, according to a report from the Financial Times. The $85.4 billion deal was proposed last year, just weeks before the U.S. presidential election. After Donald Trump was elected, some wondered if his disdain for the cable news […]
TREND: 16.7 Million Cut the Cord to Television and DirectTV…
A day after DirecTV parent AT&T said it would lose subscribers because people are ditching their satellite and cable television services — a phenomenon known as cord-cutting — shares of companies heavily invested in the TV industry tumbled. Shares of AT&T, the culprit in Thursday’s sell-off, dropped 6 percent, dragging shares of its presumed merger […]
CNN Faced $100M Lawsuit over Botched Russia Story…
The specter of a $100 million libel suit scared CNN into retracting a poorly reported story that slimed an ally of President Trump’s — and forcing out the staffers responsible for it, The Post has learned. The cable network’s coverage of Trump transition team member Anthony Scaramucci came amid federal scrutiny of corporate parent Time […]
U.S. Internet Providers Pledge to Not Sell Customer Data after Controversial Rule Change…
The three major US Internet Service Providers (ISPs) Comcast Corp, Verizon Communications Inc, and AT&T Inc have pledged to protect the private data of US citizens in solidarity against the latest internet bill passed by Congress. “We do not sell our broadband customers’ individual web browsing history. We did not do it before the FCC’s […]
AT&T Just Showed Us What The Death Of Net Neutrality Is Going To Look Like…
For consumers who have no idea what zero rating or net neutrality even is (read: most of them), this sounds like a great idea. Most don’t know that usage caps are an entirely-arbitrary construct completely untethered from network or financial necessity. As such, they believe they’re getting something for free…
The NSA’s Spy Hub in New York, Hidden in Plain Sight…
They called it Project X. It was an unusually audacious, highly sensitive assignment: to build a massive skyscraper, capable of withstanding an atomic blast, in the middle of New York City. It would have no windows, 29 floors with three basement levels, and enough food to last 1,500 people two weeks in the event of […]