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Tech at Night: AT&T, T-Mobile competition roundup, Verizon sues the FCC over Net Neutrality for keeps this time [Fixed]

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  September 30th, 2011 at 11:30 PM  | 

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Tech at Night

So, Net Neutrality has been published. Now nothing can stop Verizon’s lawsuit over the illegal power grab. Remember: the FCC has tried this before, when they went after Comcast. They lost. It’s not unreasonable to expect them to lose again.

Meanwhile, federalism continues to be trashed as Puerto Rico jumps into the game. They don’t want to pay taxes but they want to block our free market. Lovely. If only AT&T could get territories dismissed even as it tries to dismiss the anti-competitive lawsuits of its competitors.

And don’t just trust me that the AT&T/T-Mobile deal is good for competition. They think so in rural Kansas, too.

Or how about Google, friend of the left? Google claims the wireless ecosystem is highly competitive, in its bid to do some vertical integration with the acquisition of Motorola Mobility. Google is beginning to realize because of that deal, and because of the risk of a Republican sweep of the Congress and the White House next year, that the firm needs to become more friendly to the free market.

It’s Friday, I’m tired, so let’s just finish with quick hits:

LightSquared is getting tough with the GPS makers, continuing to insist it is they who played fast and loose with the standards, to LightSquared’s detriment.

ACLU stops even pretending to back the little guy, trying to sic big government against a little company called Facebook.

Banks want autodialing of mobile phones legalized, which I’m not sure I support, but if it happened it’d be a huge deal for political polling.

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  • synergist777

    Actually, I would be very happy if Puerto Rico was turned into an independent state. Its status is one of the major impediments to English being made the official language of the United States.

    Tech aside: I’m still pretty new here, but have you considered adding a target=”_blank” to the links?

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    When people use that technique, then all links are *forced* into new windows. But when doing things the standard way, in most browsers you have a choice between a new window, and the same window.

  • Bill S

    I prefer the new windows for links. I always code my diaries that way. Neil’s just picky.

  • synergist777

    And I can see that it is certainly in the spirit of the original intent of html to not override the way the user has their browser set up. And you DID answer my question: you considered it, but rejected it.

    Thanks,
    Bart

  • ajshea

    Your link to Heritage.org, “LightSquared is getting tough with the GPS makers” has some bad karma and needs exorcising.

  • ajshea

    I figured out how to fix the heritage.org link but I fail to see how it relates to Lightsquared at all. It certainly relates to Google — was that just a misplaced link?

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    There was an HTML typo in the post. It’s fixed now.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    I’d never try to force it. I know every major browser makes it pretty easy to open links in new windows, though, so we should be good.

  • Bill S

    The reason I like the feature that sysnergist asked for is that I like to be able to flip easily back/forth from the ref’d article to the original and it keeps me *exactly* where I was in the original, even if the browser plays games with the page behavior when you hit the “back” button (which some do).