Consumers can expect heftier bills for TV service if AT&T is allowed to buy Time Warner. That’s according to a lawyer for the US Justice Department, who delivered opening remarks in Washington on Thursday during the federal trial to stop the $85 billion merger. Long lines formed to get into the building where AT&T CEO …

Will AT&T get its hands on “Game of Thrones” and CNN? That’s what a federal judge will decide as AT&T and Time Warner head to court this week to defend their proposed $85 billion merger, which would marry one of the nation’s largest wireless and broadband networks with one of the largest media companies. On the other side is President Donald Trump’s …

A federal court has put the kibosh on FCC rules that were put in place to curb unwanted robocalls. On Friday the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia struck down rules passed in 2015 under a Democrat-led FCC that expanded the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), which bans the use of auto-dialers known as robocallers. The court …

It’s not easy to use public transportation if you’re in a wheelchair, on crutches or even pushing a baby stroller. While many cities around the world are required to have some accessible subways and trains, it’s often challenging to know exactly where the right stations are. That’s where Google says it can help. Google has added a feature in its …

A state senator in California has introduced the most comprehensive set of net neutrality protections to date. State Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, on Tuesday introduced an amended piece of legislation that would codify into California state law Obama-era net neutrality rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in 2015. But it would also go further than …

US regulators have accused a small Silicon Valley startup of launching satellites without permission. In December, the Federal Communications Commission denied Swarm Technologies, a stealthy startup headed by a former Google employee, permission to launch four of its tiny satellites. But the company apparently launched them anyway, according to a report from tech news site IEEE Spectrum. If confirmed, it …

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai is pledging $954 million to help restore and expand communications networks in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands that were badly damaged during the 2017 hurricane season. The US island territories were hit with a one-two punch last September when Hurricanes Maria and Irma battered the region knocking out wireless, broadband and traditional …

States across the US are taking the protection of the open internet into their own hands. This week, Washington became the first state to approve its own net neutrality law. The law, signed Monday by Gov. Jay Inslee, prohibits internet service providers from blocking or slowing web content. It also prohibits ISPs from charging internet companies for so-called fast lane …

The Federal Communications Commission’s 2015 net neutrality rules will officially be dead in a matter of weeks. So naturally, people are anxious about what that means for the internet as we know it today. It’s this anxiety and fear that’s likely fueling recent blog posts stating that AT&T is rolling out so-called “internet fast lanes.” But is it true? Is …

On Tuesday, congressional Democrats delivered on their promise to introduce a resolution to roll back the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of net neutrality rules. Sen. Ed Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, led the charge in the Senate to introduce a bill that uses a legislative tool known as the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to nullify the FCC’s December vote to …