• New York starts enforcing $15 broadband law that ISPs tried to kill [arstechnica.com]

• T-Mobile Once Again Strong Overall, Verizon Excels in 5G: Report [telecompetitor.com]

• Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile take on California wildfires [lightreading.com]

• Texas sues Allstate and its subsidiary Arity, accusing the insurer of illegally collecting and selling data about people's driving behavior through mobile apps [nytimes.com]

• TikTok says reports of possible sale to Elon Musk are 'pure fiction' [lbc.co.uk]

• Supreme Court likely to uphold TikTok ban, favoring security over speech [fortune.com]

• T-Mobile Once Again Strong Overall, Verizon Excels in 5G: Report [telecompetitor.com]

• Prepare For A Whole Bunch Of Pointless, Harmful Mergers In Streaming By Media Executives All Out Of Original Ideas [techdirt.com]

• Telcos are technical debt hoarders and a clean out is needed [fierce-network.com]

• T-Mobile, Starlink enable satellite texting early for people impacted by Los Angeles fires [androidcentral.com]

• Now Telecoms Are Fighting Among Themselves Over Who Lies More About ‘Unlimited Data’ [techdirt.com]

• A US judge rules that Google must face a class action claiming Google collected users' personal data from their phones after they turned off Web & App Activity [reuters.com]

• A hack of location data firm Gravy reveals Candy Crush, Tinder, and thousands of other apps are being used to steal user location data; apps may not even know [wired.com]

• 2024 was a record year for commercial cyber attacks [itpro.com]

• Disney+ getting a massive upgrade that can change the way you watch [t3.com]

• Consumers Cut Streaming Services In 2024 After Endless Price Hikes And Enshittification [techdirt.com]

• NAD Supports Charter Regarding "Unlimited" Spectrum Data Claims [telecompetitor.com]

• TV broadcasters to plunder some of 5G's fat [lightreading.com]

• After embarrassing blunder, AT&T promises bill credits for future outages [arstechnica.com]

• AT&T and Verizon tipped to roll out 5G SA - for real this time - in 2025 [fierce-network.com]

• Washington state's AG sues T-Mobile, claiming the carrier failed to adequately secure sensitive personal info of 2M+ residents in an August 2021 cyberattack [geekwire.com]

• The White House launches the US Cyber Trust Mark, a voluntary cybersecurity safety label for internet-connected consumer devices, after unveiling it in 2023 [bleepingcomputer.com]

• US pay TV sheds 305K subs in Q3 amid signs of 'a little moderation' - study [lightreading.com]

• US adds Tencent to blacklist over suspected ties to Chinese military [independent.co.uk]

• 2024 was worst year on record for commercial cyberattacks [totaltele.com]

• Wireless is apparently the new copper [lightreading.com]

• Forget ‘telco to techco’ - operators now want to be AI giants [fierce-network.com]

• Not willing to give T-Mobile an easy pass, attorney sues for avoidable harm to customers [phonearena.com]

• Fox Corp says Tubi surpassed 97M MAUs and 10B streaming hours in 2024, but doesn't share how it calculates MAUs; 77% of Tubi viewers say they do not have cable [deadline.com]

• Hulu + Live TV and Fubo are merging, with a subscriber count that rivals YouTube TV [9to5google.com]

• A look at Chinese hackers' attacks on US infrastructure and telecoms; sources: Charter, Consolidated Communications, and Windstream networks were also breached [wsj.com]

• Amazon plans to launch satellite broadband service in Britain [commsbusiness.co.uk]

• Net neutrality gutted by Federal appeals court [extremetech.com]

• Rural Customers Nearing 90% Access to 100 Mbps Downstream: NTCA Report [telecompetitor.com]

• There's a new kind of convergence in town: Wi-Fi + private cellular [fierce-network.com]

• The US arrests a US Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, who sold sensitive customer call records stolen from AT&T and Verizon in the Snowflake hack [krebsonsecurity.com]

• China-backed hackers breached US Treasury workstations [cnn.com]

• 2025 preview: Will pay-TV finally hit rock bottom? [lightreading.com]

• Trump told SCOTUS he plans to make a deal to save TikTok [arstechnica.com]

• The sensitive information of of over 800K VW, Audi, Seat, and Skoda EV customers, including GPS coordinates, was exposed on an unprotected AWS database for months before being reported [carscoops.com]

• NFL Fans Are Raging After Two Major Illegal Streaming Sites Unexpectedly Shut Down Before Playoffs [totalprosports.com]

• AT&T and Verizon say their networks are now clear after the Salt Typhoon intrusion; AT&T says a few “individuals of foreign intelligence interest” were targeted [bloomberg.com]

• The Year Democrats Lost the Internet [wired.com]

• Will cable broadband rebound or merely stabilize? [lightreading.com]

• Copyright Industry Wants To Apply Automated Blocking To The Internet’s Core Routers [techdirt.com]

• FTC launches probe of Microsoft over bundling [arstechnica.com]

• AT&T can substitute wireless home phone for copper, FCC says [seattletimes.com]

• Will cable broadband rebound or merely stabilize? [lightreading.com]

• Fiber deployments top another record in 2024 [fierce-network.com]

• CWA says AT&T is poised to repeat the bad behavior it showed during Trump's first term [phonearena.com]

• TP-Link Routers Could Be Banned Next Year. Are They Actually Dangerous? [cnet.com]

• Space-Age Mobile Is Here To Connect Billions And Unlock Global Markets [forbes.com]

• Crown Castle, Lumen reportedly closer to selling their fiber networks [lightreading.com]

• $2 per megabyte: AT&T mistakenly charged customer $6,223 for 3.1GB of data [arstechnica.com]

• Altice USA exec thinks video is the edge cable needs [fierce-network.com]

• Some Android customers with Metro By T-Mobile can now pay their bills by playing games [phonearena.com]

• The best live TV streaming services to cut cable in 2025 [engadget.com]