If you have DSL internet, you know that it lags well behind cable and fiber optics in terms of speed. The lag has prompted a lot of users to abandon DSL for the alternatives. Which is great if you live … Read More
Ars takes a look at how a the Bell System, effectively a monopoly on phone service, thrived without interference for most of the 20th century until being broken up in the 1980s. Now that the resurgent AT&T may (or may not) … Read More
Om Malik: In AT&T & T-Mobile Merger, Everybody Loses. Remember when there was just one phone company? It won’t be long until the past becomes the present.
What it comes down to is not GSM vs. CDMA or download speeds or iOS version, it’s this: “Verizon’s network is better.”
The inside joke about the two major political parties in the US is that they’re indistinguishable at the operational level. Case in point, when the FCC under the Democrats acts like the FCC under the Republicans. The other inside joke … Read More
As part of it’s war against net neutrality, AT&T has been claiming the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) envisioned priority access way back in the 1990s when it introduced the DiffServ field as part of RFC 2474 (the RFC or … Read More
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