BSNL annual broadband subscribers can now get Google smart speakers for a lesser price

Episode 002 of EFF’s How to Fix the Internet Gigi Sohn joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss broadband access in the United States – or the lack thereof. Gigi explains the choices American policymakers and tech companies made that have caused millions to lack access to reliable broadband, and what steps we need to take to fix the problem now. In this episode you’ll learn:

Five Years Ago This week in 2015, the UK government released its “Snooper’s Charter” surveillance bill after pretending it had backed down on the worst provisions when in fact the bill mandated backdoors to encryption and aimed to legalize over a decade of illegal mass surveillance. In the US, documents from the DOJ confirmed the extensive powers of Stingray devices, while legislators were movi

Overall percentage of subscribers provisioned for gigabit speed increased 133% to nearly 5% in the second quarter of 2020. Source: 2Q20 OpenVault Broadband Insights The statistics concerning the number of gigabit fiber customers in the US is eye-opening. OpenVault tracks the percentage of customers provisioned at various broadband speeds. At the end of 2019, the company reported that 2.81% of a

BSNL annual broadband subscribers can now get Google smart speakers for a lesser price

Cignal TV and Meralco unit Radius Telecoms have formally announced a partnership to form RED Broadband, which aims to offer “the latest unlimited fiber broadband and pay-TV service” in the country. The post Cignal TV, Meralco telco unit form fiber broadband firm appeared first on Newsbytes.PH.

Google launched Stadia, a streaming service that lets you play high-quality video games, exactly 12 months ago. The launch was met with a mixture of skepticism and disappointment. Was Stadia viable for people with an average-at-best internet connection? Would Google abandon it like Daydream, Reader and so many other services? These were perfectly valid questions. At the same time, people weren’t h

Victoria Woollaston 9 hours 39 min ago Since the launch of the Pixel 5, we’ve been waiting to see if the original Pixel 4a would drop in price. Now, we’ve got our wish in the early Black Friday Amazon sale. The 5.8in handset, which comes with a 12MP rear camera with Night Sight, Live HDR+ and Super Res Zoom, plus an all-day battery, launched in August. It is availa

Episode 003 of EFF’s How to Fix the Internet Jumana Musa joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss how the third-party doctrine is undermining our Fourth Amendment right to privacy when we use digital services, and how recent court victories are a hopeful sign that we may reclaim these privacy rights in the future. In this episode you’ll learn about: How the third-party doctrin

Just as the last change in administration changed the course of the FCC, so will the swing back to a Democratic administration. If you’ve been reading me for a few years, you know I am a big believer in the regulatory pendulum. Inevitably, when a regulatory agency like the FCC swings too far in any direction, it’s inevitable that it will eventually swing back the other way. If I had to character