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from: Hartford Courant

Connecticut Attorney General Shifts Stance on AT&T TV Service

October 24, 2007
By Mark Peters

After winning a months-long battle that ended with a prohibition against AT&T’s signing up new customers for its TV service, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal on Tuesday said the phone giant should be allowed to resume marketing the service.

from: Business Week

Get Your Hands Off the Web
Interference in Web content by AT&T and Verizon shows that more regulation is needed

by Stephen H. Wildstrom

A bit over a year ago, I wrote a column arguing that innovation on the Internet would be best served if the government mostly kept its hands off. I've changed my mind. The behavior of the top telecommunications companies, especially Verizon Communications (VZ) and AT&T (T), has convinced me that more government involvement is needed to keep communications free of corporate interference.

from: CNET

Congressman to Comcast: Stop interfering with BitTorrent
Posted by Chris Soghoian
October 25, 2007 7:15 AM PDT

While a class action lawsuit is definitely one way to get Comcast to behave, another perhaps more productive way to do so is to have politicians step in and regulate.

from: Free Press

FCC Hearing Shuts Out the Public

“How can you have a hearing on localism without giving the local community time to find out it is happening? Chairman Martin’s actions suggest that he’s never been serious about paying attention to the public.” — Josh Silver, Free Press.

from: Broadcasting & Cable

FCC Meeting Agenda a Mixed Bag for Cable
By John Eggerton
10/24/2007 7:23:00 PM

The Federal Communications Commission released the agenda for its Oct. 31 public meeting, and it is a mixed bag for cable, with proposals to extend the industry franchise relief but to ban its exclusive deals with apartment buildings.

from: St. Petersburg Times

Florida County Joins Cable Challenge

October 23, 2007
By Barbara Behrendt

Hernando County commissioners Tuesday joined the chorus of other central Florida officials who are considering legal action to keep local government and educational programming on basic cable television.

from: Ars Technica

Verizon to pay $1 million over deceptive "unlimited" EVDO plans

By Jacqui Cheng | Published: October 23, 2007 - 10:43PM CT

The case of the limited "unlimited" EVDO has been settled: Verizon has agreed to pay out $1 million to customers that it has terminated for overuse of its high-speed data service. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo made the announcement today, saying that Verizon's decision came after a nine-month investigation into the company's services and marketing practices. The attorney general accused Verizon of producing misleading materials and deceptive marketing when it claimed that its data plans were unlimited.

from: Ars Technica

Comcast shooting itself in the foot with traffic shaping "explanations"

By Eric Bangeman | Published: October 23, 2007 - 11:38PM CT

As the evidence that Comcast is doing something untoward with BitTorrent and other traffic on its network has mounted, the cable company has tried clumsily to fend off accusations of wrongdoing. The latest developments come in the wake of several conference calls held by the ISP in which it attempted to make a case for its practice of sending forged TCP reset packets to interfere with some P2P traffic.

from: Norwalk Advocate

AT&T says no U-verse if license is necessary
By Brian Lockhart
Staff Writer

October 25, 2007

HARTFORD - If AT&T must apply for a cable franchise for its fiber-optic U-verse, it would stop offering the television service in Connecticut, a company vice president said yesterday.

from: Illinoize

Video competition: Phone vs. Cable

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
by Bethany Jaeger

The phone giant AT&T officially can compete with cable companies on a statewide level to offer high-tech video services to customers. But that doesn’t guarantee the company will build out those services in all areas of the state any time soon. See Crain’s Chicago Business story here.