• 'It’s not worth it': Can you get arrested for having an Amazon Fire Stick? [dailydot.com]

• T-Mobile Aims to Pass 12-15M More Households with Fiber by 2030 [telecompetitor.com]

• Live sports streaming and traffic spikes: A remedy for rural networks [totaltele.com]

• ISPs tell Supreme Court they don’t want to disconnect users accused of piracy [arstechnica.com]

• T-Mobile announces a multi-year partnership with OpenAI that includes building IntentCX, a customer service system powered by AI agents [axios.com]

• YouTube plans a major connected TV app revamp, with a new UI and features like immersive previews for creator pages and a more prominent subscribe functionality [hollywoodreporter.com]

• AT&T fined $13M for data breach after giving customer bill info to vendor [arstechnica.com]

• SoftBank, Intelsat join forces to create global 'Ubiquitous Network' [capacitymedia.com]

• Charter’s Spectrum Overhauls CX Model, Featuring Lower Prices and No Contracts [telecompetitor.com]

• Charter leans harder into convergence with 'Life Unlimited' [lightreading.com]

• The GSM Association plans to enable E2EE on messages between Android and iOS; Google is working to bring cross-platform E2EE to RCS chats "as soon as possible" [heverge.com]

• Dish, DirecTV are in merger talks again - report [lightreading.com]

• ILSR Releases Interactive Map of Municipal Broadband Networks, Showing Their Growth [telecompetitor.com]

• Americans Consumed 100 Trillion Megabytes Of Wireless Data Last Year (And Paid Too Much For It) [techdirt.com]

• Can't get there from here: 6G requires 5G SA [fierce-network.com]

• US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps [arstechnica.com]

• 1.3 million Android-based TV boxes backdoored; researchers still don’t know how [arstechnica.com]

• NTCA and ACA Say BEAD Must Continue to Prioritize Fiber Over Alternative Technologies [telecompetitor.com]

• Will Frontier shareholders demand more from Verizon? [lightreading.com]

• The Port of Seattle says the Rhysida ransomware operation was behind an August 24 cyberattack and “it does appear that some Port data was obtained by the actor” [bleepingcomputer.com]

• TikTok's US future hangs in balance at federal court [techxplore.com]

• Monopolized U.S. Telecom Industry Eyes More Consolidation, Because What Could Go Wrong [techdirt.com]

• NTCA’s Bloomfield Shares Good and Bad of BEAD Implementation in U.S. House Testimony [telecompetitor.com]

• US cable could reach mobile 'equilibrium' at 32.68M lines [lightreading.com]

• Microsoft plans to make changes to Windows that will help CrowdStrike, Broadcom, and other security vendors operate outside of the Windows kernel [theverge.com]

• Netflix will no longer provide support for iPhones and iPads running iOS 16 [9to5mac.com]

• New Study Details "Skyrocketing Demand" for Wireless Data [telecompetitor.com]

• Charter still in no hurry to deploy CBRS [lightreading.com]

• GOP Holds Show Hearing To Complain About Providing Affordable Broadband To Poor People [techdirt.com]

• Utah judge blocks law preventing youth from accessing social media freely [engadget.com]

• Broadcom brushes off AT&T lawsuit threat [fierce-network.com]

• AT&T to broaden fiber reach via four open access providers [lightreading.com]

• NTIA Releases Report on Tracking Federal Broadband Projects [telecompetitor.com]

• Brightspeed can replace copper with unique wireless technology [fierce-network.com]

• Sony announces the PS5 Pro, offering a better GPU and faster memory for up to 45% faster game rendering, but no disc drive, available from November 7 for $700 [cnet.com]

• The European Court of Justice rules against Google, keeping a 2017 decision for a €2.4B fine for Google abusing monopoly power to crush rival shopping services [bloomberg.com]

• Don't expect a revolution with 6G, says ETSI boss [lightreading.com]

• Ofcom: internet replaced TV as UK's most popular news source; 71% of adults get news online, vs. 70% via TV; 52% use social media for news, up from 47% in 2023 [theguardian.com]

• U.S. Ranks 2nd in Digital Connectivity Readiness Behind UK [telecompetitor.com]

• DOJ claims Google has “trifecta of monopolies” on Day 1 of ad tech trial [arstechnica.com]

• iPhone 16 and 16 Pro Get Wi-Fi 7 Support for Potential Internet Speed Boost [pcmag.com]

• Why Google Is Discontinuing Its Chromecast Devices [slashgear.com]

• DirecTV tells angry customers that canceling their subscription over Disney would be useless [fastcompany.com]

• Broadband Organizations Release ‘Permitting Success’ Paper to Close Digital Divide [thefastmode.com]

• SpaceX controls 62%+ of all active satellites in orbit, ~10x more than closest rival OneWeb, after launching its 7,000th Starlink satellite on Sep. 5 [independent.co.uk]

• Risks of Higher Bills, Lower Broadband Investment If Universal Service Fund Ends: NTCA [telecompetitor.com]

• Lumen should be Verizon's next target [lightreading.com]

• Press Happily Parrots Verizon’s Claim That Its $20 Billion Purchase Of Frontier Will Be A Huge Boon To Consumers [techdirt.com]

• Verizon agrees to acquire rival telecom operator Frontier Communications for an enterprise value of $20B including debt; Frontier reported $5.8B in 2023 revenue [bloomberg.com]

• Permitting for Broadband Projects Key to Effective Expansion, Says Industry Thinkers [telecompetitor.com]

• Verizon-Frontier deal a 'validation' of our convergence strategy, says Comcast CFO [lightreading.com]

• AT&T sues Broadcom for refusing to renew perpetual license support [arstechnica.com]

• T-Mobile phone subscribers may soon be able to get 5G Home internet for as little as $30 a month [androidauthority.com]

• Verizon in 'advanced talks' to acquire Frontier - report [lightreading.com]

• Leaked Disney files include personal data of some staff and customers, and show that Disney+ had $2.4B+ revenue in March quarter, or 43% of Disney's DTC revenue [wsj.com]

• X debuts a beta TV app “on several app stores”, like for Amazon Fire TV and Google TV, to court advertisers, creators, and partners to a “video-first platform” [techcrunch.com]

• Union Pulls Out of Mediation in AT&T Strike [telecompetitor.com]

• FTC urged to make smart devices say how long they will be supported [arstechnica.com]