• T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users [arstechnica.com]

• Charter eyes bigger streaming bundle to curb pay-TV cord-cutting [lightreading.com]

• Lawsuit: a civil rights organization says a Virginia town installing Flock cameras violated the Fourth Amendment, making citizens moving untracked "impossible" [404media.co]

• Disney no longer lets new and returning customers sign up for and buy subscriptions to Hulu or Disney+ through Apple's App Store, avoiding Apple's cut [macrumors.com]

• Best media streaming devices of 2024: From budget to premium [techhive.com]

• Apartment buildings more than 10 years old have some big broadband problems [fierce-network.com]

• Benchmark Study Finds “Resilience Despite Challenges” Among Rural Telcos in 2023 [telecompetitor.com]

• How Verizon's $1B UScellular spectrum deal affects EchoStar's Dish [lightreading.com]

• The FCC Is "Looking Into" Shitty, Technically Unnecessary Broadband Usage Caps [techdirt.com]

• Turns out Redbox's derelict kiosks are a big red security risk [engadget.com]

• 6G speed test hits 938 Gbps throughput that downloads 20 movies in a second [phonearena.com]

• Acrimony as UK Parliament Debate Use of Telegraph Poles for Broadband [ispreview.co.uk]

• The FCC issues new rules that will require all mobile phones sold in the US to be compatible with hearing aids, “after a transition period” [engadget.com]

• Verizon: Frontier needs mobile to compete with cable [lightreading.com]

• Disney Raises Prices for Disney Plus, Hulu, and ESPN Plus Again [cnet.com]

• Chorus of voices object to Frontier’s sale to Verizon [fierce-network.com]

• NTCA Joins Effort to Ask Supreme Court to Hear Universal Service Fund Appeal [telecompetitor.com]

• FTC “click to cancel” rule seeks to end free trial traps, sneaky auto-enrollments [arstechnica.com]

• More Layoffs At Paramount As Streaming Media Giant’s 'Merger Synergies' Continue [techdirt.com]

• Brazilian authorities have arrested a hacker, known as USDoD, who they allege is linked to breaches of National Public Data, the FBI's InfraGard, and others [bleepingcomputer.com]

• FCC sets its sights on data caps [lightreading.com]

• Surprise! Rural Organizations Still Find Flaws in Broadband Reporting [telecompetitor.com]

• SpaceX tells FCC it has a plan to make Starlink about 10 times faster [arstechnica.com]

• $8B of the $10B Capital Projects Fund is being spent for broadband [fierce-network.com]

• Frontier-Verizon deal faces shareholder static [lightreading.com]

• The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising [techcrunch.com]

• NAD Recommends Charter Discontinue or Modify Spectrum Ads [telecompetitor.com]

• AT&T, Verizon, Lumen face questions over Chinese hack [lightreading.com]

• How the Next Generation of MVNOs Can Dominate the Telecom Industry [fierce-network.com]

• Vodafone, Three merger creates a network-sharing nightmare [lightreading.com]

• 5th Circuit rules ISP should have terminated Internet users accused of piracy [arstechnica.com]

• While Barron's says T-Mobile needs to copy Verizon and AT&T in fiber, it already has in wireless [phonearena.com]

• Wireless Internet Providers Reap High Satisfaction Ratings in Yet Another Study [telecompetitor.com]

• An early look at what 6G might look like in the US [lightreading.com]

• Xbox Cloud Gaming may finally let you stream your non-Game Pass purchases soon [engadget.com]

• Verizon has second big outage in as many weeks - here’s what we know [tomsguide.com]

• NTIA Receives 700 Applications for $1B Competitive Grant Program Funding [telecompetitor.com]

• Lycamobile settles with T-Mobile, reportedly heads to AT&T [lightreading.com]

• gateio [arstechnica.com]

• Microsoft plans to let US users buy and play Xbox games from the Xbox app on Android from November, after a judge ordered Google to open up the Play Store [theverge.com]

• FCC Fines T-Mobile $31.5 Million After Carrier Was Hacked 8 Times In 5 Years [techdirt.com]

• Cable could return to broadband sub growth in 2026 [lightreading.com]

• AT&T's bold new CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) proposal isn't making friends [fierce-network.com]

• Amazon says Apple TV+ will be available as a $9.99/month subscription add-on in Prime Video Channels later this month in the US, joining 100+ streaming services [bloomberg.com]

• The Internet Archive suffers massive data breach affecting tens of millions of users [betanews.com]

• US Cellular tells the FCC it's doomed without the T-Mobile acquisition [androidauthority.com]

• TikTok's troubles continue with lawsuits from 14 states alleging it's harmful to children [phonearena.com]

• U.S. government proposing historic breakup of Google to end its internet search monopoly [fortune.com]

• Is More Unlicensed Spectrum the Best Path Forward? [telecompetitor.com]

• How the election may impact broadband policy [lightreading.com]

• More than 237K Comcast customers had their security compromised [fierce-network.com]

• Experts have long warned “secure backdoor” systems are impossible; Salt Typhoon's reported hack of US ISPs' wiretap systems exemplifies the risks of backdoors [techcrunch.com]

• American Water, the largest water utility in US, is targeted by a cyberattack [techxplore.com]

• Epic v. Google: a US judge orders Google to open the Play Store to rivals from November 1 for three years, distribute third-party stores within Play, and more [theverge.com]

• A US federal judge has given the FTC the green light to pursue antitrust claims against Amazon [thehill.com]

• T-Mobile Top Wireless Carrier Among Small, Large Businesses: J.D. Power [telecompetitor.com]